Showing posts with label Rant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rant. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Subtle magic

As I've been watching several great movies while I skip classes, I focused on a lot of great subtle acting. The more I get into them, the more I cringe at many 3D animations that has too many of exaggerated pose to pose whiplashes.

Having some slow moments where the audience has time to think, time to figure out what the character is thinking and to understand the character's emotion is what I want to incorporate into my forth year film. Although it is much harder to make a film that establishes character's unique personality and flaws in 1-2 minutes but my experiences tell me that those things makes me come back to watch the film over and over.

Here are my favorite sequences/scenes from few movies (spoiler alert)

This is my most favorite sequence in the entire Horton Hears a Who movie. For some reason I loved it when Sally O'Malley (mayor's wife) points at the mayor about hanging chandelier and blinks twice. In the sequence the mayor talks about the situation of Whoville and the wife thinks he is crazy. so as the mayor circles around and tries to explain, Sally remains rather still while making subtle eye and body movements. Fantastic.

Singing in the Rain is another awesome movies I got a chance to see recently and I loved the bit where Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) tries to impress Kathy Seldon (Debbie Reynolds) by doing his movie star thing and Kathy takes one look at Don's hand on her shoulder and catches on and then she begins to talk down movie stars.

Lars and the Real Girl is full of genuine subtle acting. Nothing is exaggerated. I had lots of fun trying to figure out what each of the towns folks are thinking about when they look at Bianca.
This is screen cap of my favorite scene in the movie cuz it was sweet. Not to mention Kelli Garner looks super cute in this movie.

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Books Books Book from America.

My order has arrived from Amazon.com. I'm especially liking the Art of Jon Foster.

Friday, October 26, 2007

get animated!

After the guys subway sketch group, I went to the NFB's "Madame Tutli Putli - Behind the scenes" and listened to the directors, Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, talk about their inspirations, process of the works in the making of the film. It was very inspiring day.

More info on Madame Tutli Putli

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

crazy about munny


I shall design one in a near future.

this one by Jeff Soto.. one eye on it as usual : )

the link is old.
Munny show LA 2005

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Getting lazy. Random Update

My humble workstation

penciling in

basic colour wash

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Another good episode of GL

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Episode 15

It's another epic boss battle episode.. some great animation, some really bad scenes but overall they put alot of work into this one.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

4 Thoughts.. they are related.


There are good artists that inspire you to draw more.

there are extremely good artists that make you think what you have been doing all these years.

Claire Wendling scares the crap out of me..

I feel uncontrollable urge to go to the zoo.

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Freedom from disney.

So I was in this place called 'library' looking for research materials. I accidently came across a book called "Outlaw Animation". While reading through interviews of animators like Craig McCracken and Don Hertzfeldt, I realized I have been chasing disney feature animation style so much that I was not using my creativity to full potential. I always considered feature animations as 'THE' goal. Now, I'm just going to have fun doing my own thing and see where my style and interest end up. Screw you disney. (please hire me later.)

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Character Books.. Big money! now I will starve..


My goodness. I never realized how much I really sucked at character design/sketches until now. I always tried to explore within myself and never researched other materials. After browsing through now I know why my characters don't look anything special.

Hmm from now on.. less food, more books.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

WooooH GOODY! with 20% sarcasm!

Ball & Tail amination assignment.. so much fun :D

I have to fix:
- 10 pages of ball
- 197 pages of tail line of action
- add 197 tail shapes

this assignment cost me $12 and then some. I love killing trees.