Making CG look like stop motion

I’ve been asked to create a CG character and make it look like stop motion. It is quite a unique challenge. Something I’ve never done before, but very interested to successfully pull off!
Pepper Films asked me to come up with a story, supervise the modeling, do the rigging, and finally perform the layout [...]

Spammers Taking Over

Boy, if you don’t keep on top of things, these spammers will ruin your virtual life.  It seems that one or more were able to hack into my blog and upload html pages advertising their crap.  I didn’t even notice what was going on until I did a Google search on my own site.
I’ve since [...]

Interview with Brad Bird

On Mark Mayerson’s great blog, he points us towards an interview of Brad Bird (use the username of “pjs@mailinator.net” and password of “142″).  Now, this isn’t your standard interview about animation, but it contains a ton of juicy information.  Especially for those of us interested in more of how various people/companies approach management and how [...]

Funny shortfilm

Although this is not animated, it is a really funny (and sad at the same time!) short created by some guys that work in the industry. I’m sure most of you can relate.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPflLGEHUAI]

Horton and the Whos

After watching Horton Hears a Who, I’ve got to say that Blue Sky really did a wonderful job.  The lighting, story, models, shading, animation, all of it was top notch.  I was especially impressed by the rigs and what they are capable of.
They’ve definitely raised the standard on what is capable with a cartoony CG [...]



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