website

I made a website about my animation project. As I am writing this what's there is a draft, but I am putting in a few extra things in time for the assessment. And I will update it a bit later as well - when I finish the project.
http://athene.riv.csu.edu.au/~bsulli18/iweb/Site/home.html
Bernard

historic glimpse at Disney

I found this documentary about Disney is interesting from a historic point of view, especially as now Disney is doing 2d again. I think one of the most interesting things in animation is the culture of working collaboratively. I would like to do some research on that one day. This is an example of how to wreck that.

The video I put up which has now disappeared from Vimeo which was a documentary by Dan Lund about how 2d animation finished at Disney less than a decade ago. I can't find another copy online and I didn't write down the title...

But Bec, if you are interested in the less sweet side of Disney you could start with this doco on Walt Disney:

character sheets for walking animation

charactersheet1, originally uploaded by bernsul.

After starting the animation I realised I didn't know the character well enough to animate him consistently. I have been drawing him repeatedly over the last couple of days until I came up with this. Still discovering him, but I should be able to draw him consistently now anyway.

Link to the set

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernsul/sets/72157623921221399/detail/

landscapes for walking animation

seascape2, originally uploaded by bernsul.

I posted a few samples of the backgrounds for the Walking animation on flickr. I am aiming to finish all the backgrounds this week while I figure out how to solve some problems with animating the character.

Click on the image to see the other images in the set.

Sylvain Chomet

This is from the guy who animated The Triplets of Belleville.



And here is theamazing smooth old style animation that begins the movie. It changes to a different very unique style after this.



He has a new movie called The Illusionist. I can find trailers and interviews about it in every language but English. Here is the Russian trailer. Looks amazing.



Bernard

Bill Plympton

This interview with Bill Plympton is kind of wild - with AlJazeera. I am amazed by Bill Plympton's productivity. He does a feature length animation every three years, doing all the drawing, with a very small support team.



These pencil tests helped me get an understanding of his process





There is also a live web cam of Bill Plympton drawing at his desk. We live in a different time zone of course.

http://www.plymptoons.com/anicam/anicam.html

Joanna Quinn

Over the last week or two I have been looking around on the web for inspiration on how to do my next animation project. I have been making quite a few bookmarks in different places and I thought it might be good to place them all on the blog and share them with anyone who is interested. I will focus on putting up interviews with 2d animators talking about how they work.

This is from the British animator Joanna Quinn. I like her drawing style, her wicked humour, and the ways she captures a particular angle of English working class life.



And here is an example of her work which includes the finished animation of the preliminary drawing she is doing in the video above. Lots more on You Tube.



Bernard

new walking animation storyboard part 1 - waking up

This is the first storyboard section for my animation on walking on flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernsul/sets/72157623712187271/detail/

Bernard

walk cycle project

Well here is my walk cycle assignment. I think it is a process not a product. I am humbled as I begin to recognise the skills that are needed to a good job of this stuff. Excited about the next project already...

FWAK address

A more current address for FWAK animation is at their more recent blog:

http://fwakanimation.wordpress.com/

Bernard

toon boom software

Here is a link to the toonboom software that Andrew was talking about in class last week as a professional 2d animation alternative better than flash.

http://www.toonboom.com/products/animating/?WT.mc_id=e_homepage_pdt_ANI

I have been thinking about it for awhile. It has been used on some interesting animations including the Triplets of Bellville.

There is a demo copy to download with lots of tutorials. It works well with a wacom. A lot of the people who started with flash when it first came out a switching to it - I am not sure how much is product endorsement related but some of them seem quite genuine with a few Australians including:

Adam Phillips:

http://www.biteycastle.com/

and Bernard Berriman:

http://www.squetch.com

and Eddie Mort and Lili Chin:

http://www.fwakanimation.com.au

So for 2d animation I am seriously thinking about it, though not rushing in to pay the money.

There is a new version of Animate coming out. But Animate Pro looks the business.

Bernard