Saturday, February 27, 2010

Guide to Human Types

A good site to check out for some drawing help with characters, body parts, and animals.  Some nice drawing tutorials.  Check it out here.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Granny O'Grimm

A very funny well made short film and series all about those great stories gran would tell late at night. Take a look and enjoy... .. with the help of God.

This short film was written and performed by Kathleen O'Rourke, directed by Nicky Phelan and produced by Brown Bag Films in 2008. It has screened in numerous festivals and won several awards. Take a look here for the official video on her hompage.




We all know the Grimm fairytales. Granny's are grimmer...
Once upon a time there was a granny who dreamed of being the best granny in the whole world. Unfortunately, this granny was tormented by a lifetime of rage against the world and everyone in it. Luckily, nobody noticed what an angry old woman she had become because they took no notice of her one way or another. But there's only so much anger one old woman can repress before it BURSTS OUT FROM THE DEPTHS OF HER SOUL IN A SCREAMING FIREBALL OF BITTERNESS AND RESENTMENT!

...or a bedtime story, as Granny herself likes to call it.

Granny O'Grimm is a 26 x 11 min animated series. Each episode features Granny O'Grimm's desperate attempts to be the perfect granny to her three grandchildren, before the fairytales unleash her demons. Produced by Brown Bag Films and directed by Nicky Phelan, the series will be created in 3D & 2D computer animation.

A quick example of Granny's story telling:
"Eency Weency Spider, Climbing up the spout.
Down came the rain and washed the spider out.
Eency Weency Spider got washed down the drain,
And floated out to sea and was never seen again. Serves the big eejit right, going out in bad weather."


Check out the rest of her stories on her site here.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

French Roast

Fabrice O. Jouberts animated short exploring the depth of human nature.  The short has won multiple awards in 2008 and 2009.

You can find out more at the official website here.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Adrien Debos Portfolio

Who's up for a healthy dose of depression?  This is an artist based in Vancouver working for Relic right now.  One of the top 3D artists around, recently won Dominance War (big international 3D art competition)







Check out his personal site Here.

Edited to be awesome by the maestro.

Marcio Takara

Marcio Takara is a Brazilian comic artist currently living in Canada. He has worked for studios such as Marvel, Chimaera and Image.  His artwork is amazing in its simplicity and astounding in its appeal.  If your ever stuck on character designs make sure to take a look at some of his work to see just how much far you can simplify your design but maintain a powerful strong looking character.



Wednesday, February 17, 2010

School Cancellation

megan.cox@hotmail.com said (6:29 AM):
*Just got an email from Jamie (Campus Director) - classes are canceled.


Enjoy the extra sleep peoples!

Cubic Tragedy

Let this be a lesson to all of you...


CUBIC TRAGEDY
Uploaded by thpmarc. - Watch original web videos.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Drawing the Ozone way

A quick tutorial on discussing another artsits drawing style along with how he colors his illustrations.  




Monday, February 15, 2010

Animation Backgrounds

Want to take a look at some professional painted backgrounds?  Well heres the site for you.  Rob Richards blogspot is bursting full of backgrounds from tons of disney films and others.  Take a look around his blogspot and prepare to be amazed by the pure skill and artistry involved in making these backgrounds.  







Sunday, February 14, 2010

Industry Professionals.

Eliiot M. Bour an industry professional and animation instructor at animationmentor.


Some animations he has worked on, video files located at his website:






Saturday, February 13, 2010

Friday, February 12, 2010

Animation Work

For all those who are more interested in the animation aspect of 3D here are two sites to help you get started on your own free time.


11 second club is an ongoing contest where they will give you an eleven second audio file to sync your animation too.  Sometimes it will be a clip from a movie or show, other times its just a music file or sound effects.  Makes for a good challenge.



CreativeCrash has a large database of free models and characters that you can use to animate with or as props.  Great for trying to do a few animations if you don't have a rigged model already.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Get Out

A short little clip worth taking a look at.  Simple characters with a great concept, beautiful coloring and great design.

Need some artistic inspiration?  Looking for some cool new concepts?  Check out Coolvibe's site, updated with tons of stunning hi-res art, concepts, and images.  The site is treated like a blog and is just as easy to navigate as any blogger page.  The site is definitely worth taking a look at if your struggling for project ideas or inspiration.





Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Texturing

Working on your dalek? Finish him? Want to get ahead and texture him? Well your going to need some good textures. Texture Vault has a large categorized collection of textures for sale. But that doesn't mean you cant use the preview texture.


"Dommo Origato Mr Roboto"

Thinking about your robot design? Need ideas? Just want to plagiarize a good idea? Take a gander, we have some here just for you!








Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Gesture Drawing Practice

A very useful site if you want to practice some timed gesture drawings without having to pay for class times. All of the models are done in muscular forms so it's also good practice for drawing muscle systems on models.




You can find the site here.

Reinventing the Classics

This video demonstrates how original Monkey Island 2 backgrounds look and feel in a modern 3d game engine. The sets were built using Maya and then exported into Cryengine's Sandbox editor.

This is a followup to One Clone's other Monkey Island 2 videos that showed how to "convert" 2d concept art into 3d scenes using camera projection techiques. Check them out if you want more background info, or head over to his
site.




Pretty Polys meets Blogger!

New Blogger site for anyone who doesn't have facebook to be able to get the facebook content! That and you can now preview everything before clicking on them! Isn't that great!?

New websites and past links will be posted soon.