This is pure genius. Theo Jansen, who defines himself as a kinetic sculptor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_sculpture) creates robots or mechanisms that run on only wind power! No pollution, limitless energy and of course, looks amazing!
You can find more videos on youtube.
05 October 2009
Theo Jansen
06 August 2009
04 March 2009
Drawing for Animation
I know some beginning 3d animators are not comfortable with drawing so I have decided to put this link, in case it helps anyone:
Ten Minute Drawing
Of course it does not include everything about drawing for animation planning but it may give you a very good starting point.
I have been drawing caricatures and stuff since my childhood, but because I didn't have any formal training and didn't know anything about the concepts like posing, shapes, line-o-action, force, appeal, loose and simple drawing etc during that time, my drawings weren't effective and eye pleasing as they were meant to be. So I strongly encourage anyone who is starting animation, to check out these videos or lots of materials you can find on the web, to go through the books I gave link to (I carefully selected those), to attend some drawing lectures etc. Also, for an extensive learning resource, you may visit Jason Ryan's website:
Jason Ryan's website
You may think it is unnecessary since you are going to be 3d animator but what I've observed during my animation learning is, the better you are at drawing (remember even a stick figure can work if it is thoughtfully drawn) and the more you put those concepts into your planning drawings, the better, original and creative your animations will be. Otherwise, it will probably lead to live action like (rotoscope) animation, cliche animation or bad animation unless you are a 3d animation pro for lots of years, which is probably the hardest route to become an animator.
27 February 2009
2d or 3d?
Street painting: done by Manfred Stader and Edgar Muller. 
Imagination, artistry and effort... And the illusion in the end. Just brilliant!
More can be found here!
By the way, two posts in the same day. I think I'm getting in form.
Double Fine
Ok, let's keep this thing going and alive! I have recently visited Stephen Gregory's blog . He has some nice tutorials and stuff, check it out. He is a former pixar animator, now working at Double Fine Studio with Tim Schafer. And who is Tim Schafer? Double Fine's head and one of the makers of superb old adventure titles like Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, Full Throttle. Double Fine is also the producer of Psychonauts, a great adventure/rpg game! I didn't have the time to finish the game but it was one of the games that you genuinely feel that you are in a different world. There are very few titles that have this kind of effect on me. Anyways, I visited their site:
Double Fine
and that led me to a good laugh (amazing posts) and this:
Images
where you can download very high-res images of the titles I mentioned above so that you can have them on your wall as posters. Lastly,
Long live Double Fine:)
06 May 2008
Gobelins
The work that comes from this school usually fascinates me. I think it is clearly one of the best animation schools in the world. (Besides animationmentor of course) And it is not just the animation. Graphics, composition, sound design and stories are usually pretty well handled. My favourite of 2007 is "Blind spot" and here is a link to the all shorts of 2007:
http://www.gobelins.fr/galerie/animation/index2007.htm
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