How To Train Your Dragon! This Weekend!

The movie I worked on for about the last two years comes out tomorrow so be sure not to miss it this weekend!! The consensus all around from people that have seen early screenings of this film is that they really loved it. A lot of people feel it's the best DreamWorks Animation film to date and I'm glad to hear that they really enjoy the experience they have while watching this film. It was an interesting experience animating crowds and cycles through the film and am grateful to have been a part of Simon Otto's(Head of Character Animation) animation team and glad I was able to be a part of How To Train Your Dragon.

Waking Sleeping Beauty Podcast has been posted!

Check it out here:

http://www.speakingofanimation.com/2010/03/podcast-waking-sleeping-beauty/

New Speaking of Animation podcast!!

Listen to it HERE!

We were very fortunate having the opportunity to speak with Richie about his experience on Avatar. Thanks a ton for doing this and thanks to Marek Kochout for setting it up!

New Dragon Trailer!!

One Month away! March 26th!!

New Podcast on Speaking Of Animation coming soon!

Skywalker Ranch shot by Philip Bloom

Skywalker Ranch from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

This is some gorgeous footage of the Skywalker Ranch shot with the Canon 5DmkII and Canon 7D.

You can read about it on Philip Bloom's blog here:
http://philipbloom.co.uk/2009/12/12/the-tale-of-lucasfilm-skywalker-ranch-red-tails-star-wars-and-canon-dslrs/

He has some more great stuff on his vimeo channel so be sure to check it out!

Speaking of Animation

Hey everyone!

A couple of us from work have put together a site where we hope to provide various animation content ranging from random thoughts, tips and tricks, and podcasts. We just launched today so go by and see what you think! The first podcast is with fellow coworker Ted Ty.

www.speakingofanimation.com

How To Train Your Dragon Trailer

How To Train Your Dragon clip

Not the best video quality but watch while you can!

http://softtalkblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/idf2009-dreamworks-premieres-%E2%80%98how-to-train-your-dragon%E2%80%99-clip/

Knife Fight!

Here's a video that my nemesis, Stephen Melaehagraknow, made using the xtranormal site. I thought it was pretty funny so I figured I'd share. (Language not very kiddie friendly)



EDIT/UPDATE:
(Unfortunately, it seems this video no longer exists)

Shot Update

Well, I went ahead and put a little more time into this clip so I could push it off my plate. If I do anything else to this clip it would mainly deal with texturing them up so they're dressed. We'll see.

Another unfinished 11 Second Club entry!

Well, this time I entered my unfinished 11 second club entry for fun to see what would happen. I like to think of using the 11 second club for animation sketches more so than what I would put on a reel so I probably won't be going back to finish them. This time I tried to create a story that could stand on its own regardless of the dialog clip.

It was also sort of an inside joke between a few of us here at work to find out different ways we could actually get around animating the actual person that says the line. I placed an impressive 41st! haha WOOO! If I can promis you one thing, this won't be my last crazy entry to the 11 second club! Obviously no polish on this thing but it was fun piecing it together in my spare time through the last two weeks of August!







Brandon Beckstead also had a very fun entry that he has posted on his blog.
(You were robbed Brandon!)

Unfinished 11 second club -July

Well, I was working on this for last month's 11 second club but didn't end up putting much time into it. So here's where I left it. Pretty much a blocking pass, haha, and I'm not very confident about some of the acting choices since I have yet to flesh it out but some of the guys at work wanted me to post it so here it is:



(Sorry to all who that I was going to make a worthwhile post!)

Slight "Film Industry" update

Well, here's an update to the latest personal animation that's on my plate. I still have a lot to do on this thing but hopefully it won't take to many more sessions to finish it up. We'll see...
As always, it's free for comments and crits!





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Kung Fu Panda!

Last Thursday night DreamWorks had a Kung Fu Panda and after party for its employees. The show started at 7pm but due to traffic and, from what most people have mentioned, me not having GPS I didn't get to the show until 8. So I think I caught about an hour of the show and from what I saw, it was freaking awesome! It really has a great style and feel throughout. This was the first time I had seen so much of it edited together and with final sound. This is definitely one to see in theaters!!