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Animation blog round up

Written by madevi 14th September 2009, 12:09pm

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Got the Monday morning blues? Put those biscuits down. Our pick of the best animation posts from the blogosphere will perk you right up. We give you…

… From 4mations land:

Emma Lazenby’s almost finished her 4mations Digital Short.

The Brothers McLeod are animating on The Moon Bird (allegedly).

And our resident dinosaurs answer your existential questions:

… Artwork to inspire:

Sylvain Chomet’s “The Illusionist” is almost finished:
Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist on Academy of Art Animation Notes

Tim Frost shares some concept doodles from Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom:
Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom

More development work from Tomm Moore on Song of the Sea
Vis dev ideas on The Blog of The Sea

… A bit of eye candy:

Felix Massie shares “The Revolution of small Actions”, directed by Tim Ruffle:
La Revolució Dels Petits Gestos ha començat on Balanced There

Illustration collective Watermark Ltd. collaborate on a nifty music video:
I got Opinions: collaborative animation on Drawn

….Some handy tips:

Shawn Kelly tackles “Randomblinkitis”:
Blinks in Animation on Animation Tips and Tricks

How to make things fly in stop motion:
Stopmotion flight tutorial on Anim8stopmotion

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7 Comments

  1. At 4:37pm on 14 September 09 Felix wrote:

    Sadly that’s Tim Ruffles’ not mine! I was just a lowly animator on that.

    This is my first: http://www.balancedthere.com/2009/08/irn-brus-sir-swigs-lot-on-internet.html

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    • At 7:24pm on 15 September 09 madevi wrote:

      Oops! Sorry, got confused. Have amended the post. Should clearly drink more Irn Bru in the morning ;)

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  2. At 10:18pm on 15 September 09 sevenzeds wrote:

    It struck me whilst watching The Aristocats with my daughter recently that Sylvain Chomet’s work looks just like Disney circa 1970s… or more specifically the films Wolfgang Reitherman directed. I wonder if the French-set Aristocats made a big impression on the 7-year old Chomet… and check out the cars in The Rescuers!

    http://yfrog.com/0edisneychometj

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    • At 10:58am on 16 September 09 madevi wrote:

      True, though his character design is more distinctive…
      Love the wet Parisian griminess in those stills. And thanks, now I’m going to be humming “Everybody wants to be a cat” aaaall day…

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  3. At 2:22pm on 16 September 09 sevenzeds wrote:

    Love those old songs.

    He is amazing with character and he’s taken the style new places… striking similarities though. Couldn’t resist a few comparisons here:

    http://yfrog.com/0hchometdisney2j

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    • At 2:27pm on 16 September 09 madevi wrote:

      Ha! Excellent.
      Procrastinating, perhaps?

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  4. At 2:51pm on 16 September 09 sevenzeds wrote:

    procrastinate, moi? jamais! it’s… uh… research

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