Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
4.2.11
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21.9.10
The words that changed my life
You can go to animation school, spend a $100,000 and not learn a damn thing about the basics of good animation drawing- OR you can buy a Preston Blair book for $8 and learn it all in a couple months. You pick.
If you learn the principles correctly, you will be able to draw in any style today. You’ll be miserable having to dumb down your abilities- but you will be in demand.
John Kricfalusi
9.9.10
7.9.10
11.6.10
The Illusion of Life: Story
Mitch and I have this book for already 2,5 or so, but I only read several chapters of it. Last week I saw that there's a chapter about Story in it, so I started reading and wrote a summary of it. Here we go!
It all starts with a simple idea you can tell to someone in 1 or 2 sentences. A too complex story/idea will is confusing for the audience and looks and feels like a mess. The idea has to be clear.
Be sure the audience understands what your characters are doing and why they are doing that. Show their way of thinking, but don't make their behaviour predictable (you don't want your story to be boring).
Parts with action and parts with emotions need to be in balance. Action is for creating excitement/thrill, emotion is for understanding.
Don't be affraid to make changes in your story! Every (animated) movie has parts that have never been published and/or changed a lot of times. Keep in mind that every part of the story has to support your idea.
To judge your scenes before you start animating you can use these tips:
It all starts with a simple idea you can tell to someone in 1 or 2 sentences. A too complex story/idea will is confusing for the audience and looks and feels like a mess. The idea has to be clear.
Be sure the audience understands what your characters are doing and why they are doing that. Show their way of thinking, but don't make their behaviour predictable (you don't want your story to be boring).
Parts with action and parts with emotions need to be in balance. Action is for creating excitement/thrill, emotion is for understanding.
Don't be affraid to make changes in your story! Every (animated) movie has parts that have never been published and/or changed a lot of times. Keep in mind that every part of the story has to support your idea.
To judge your scenes before you start animating you can use these tips:
- Is this scene only there to connect one scene to the other? If it is, change it to make it interesting. Make it part of the story, not just some filler.
- Is this scene only to explanain something? If it is, change it or even delete it and make changes in other scenes so this scene will become useless. Nothing is more boring than an explaining conversation -_-. If the character has a reason/motivation for his behaviour, no explanation is needed.
- Is the situation in this scene interesting/entertaining? If not, make it interesting or delete it. Not only the characters make a situation interesting/entertaining, the situation itself needs to be interesting/entertaining too. It's a combination of both that makes a scene totally awesome.
- Are the characters coming to life in this scene? If not, make them act like living creatures with real personallities and motivations for their behaviour. What does character A when he ends up in this situation? The character is real and has influence on the situation. Show how a character thinks/feels about the situation. This can change through the movie because the character grows, but make that also understandable for the audience.
- Can this scene be caricatured? If you want realism, please go film your story instead of animating it. It's a waist of your time and a waist of the medium. Animation is ment to be exaggerated, not realistic, but believable.
- How is your story told? Let your story be told by broad cartoon characters instead of the generic charaters. In Snow White the story is told through the dwarfs and the animals, not through Snow White herself, she's too generic to be entertaining.
5.6.10
Sherm Cohen's storyboard tutorials
Mitch found a blog where Sherm Cohen explains how he draws his storyboards.
I'm very happy with it because it's almost time for me to draw my own storyboard :)
This is the link:
CLICK!
Maybe you can use it too?
Edit:
New Storyboard blog from Sherm
I'm very happy with it because it's almost time for me to draw my own storyboard :)
This is the link:
CLICK!
Maybe you can use it too?
Edit:
New Storyboard blog from Sherm
15.3.10
more inspiration :)
Rex Hackelberg
Kali Fontecchio
Mary Blair
Brianne Drouhard
Jessica Borutski
Katie Rice
Melanie Matthews
Becky Dreistadt
30.1.10
Brendan and the Secret of Kells
Last night I've watched this cool animation movie. Here are 2 clips for you to get an impression :)
And the trailer:
And the trailer:
29.1.10
Awesome!
John just posted an awesome list of links to blogposts he wrote about Color Theory. Thanks John!!! <3
Moodboarding!!!
I have a large blanc notebook to make moodboards. Here is an example:
The colors are a little bit different on this picture than in real life. So if you want me to show you more of this stuff and the real colors, let's drink a cup of coffee/tea and I'll show you :)
17.1.10
Online animation serie
I have thougt about how I could prevent my animation to become just one single animation that appears on youtube and will be forgotten after a few days. Then there was a lightbeam and angels sang! I had the idea! My animation is a first episode of a online animation serie :).
Like: Country Ghost of Mike Geiger, Sparkle Friends of Mukpuddy, The Goddamn George Liquor Program of Spumco, Happy Tree Friends of Mondo Mini Shows (I'll add more to this list later!)
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