Hans has taken a radical (and timely) step with this new version of his blog. Yes, he’s moved over to using WordPress instead of Blogger, and that means he won’t be penalised as he formerly was for putting tons of images in his posts.
The more the merrier, please, Hans!
In one of his [...]
Déja vu, anyone?
As well as using live action reference as guides for animation moves, it seems that the Walt Disney Feature Animation artists weren’t above re-using old sequences in new films.
A low res mix of two almost identical frames from two different films.
A French animation fan has cut together this video with frame accurate comparisons [...]
William Wray (Ren & Stimpy, etc.,) is showing some of the colour keys he’s painted for The Mighty B!.
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Ten episodes will air over five days, starting on the 8th of September.
The backgrounds work is shared with Seonna Hong and Richard Daskas.
I like this artwork, but it’s a shame that the stories are [...]
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Way back in 1992, I worked for a short and enjoyable while in Dublin, painting backgrounds for one of Don Bluth’s animated films called “Thumbelina“. I stayed in Dublin for about three months, having a great time enjoying the craic, working with some great people, and learning the [...]
I don’t know what’s kept me so long.
Johnny Kelly’s short film(04:26) about putting things off until later.
I do it. I know a lot of other people do it. In fact there’s one or two people procrastinating right now as they read this post. Get back to work, you slackers! [...]
On the outskirts of Tokyo, there’s a forest that’s very dear to the heart of Hasao Miyasaki, who claims that it was this very place that inspired him to write and produce the most enduring animated feature film, My Neighbour Totoro.
The forest is being encroached upon by urban development, and so the [...]
Here’s the second post arising from the discovery of a group of documents published by the animator Richard Williams sometime in the late 1970’s.
He’s making a strong bid for the high ground in this document, elevating himself (and his studio staff) to being the natural successors to the skills and craft base of the Walt [...]
A short film about an art form that flourished in the 20th Century, that now faces an uncertain future.
Full of arcane references for those who know their history
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Odd, isn’t it, how the marketing of a film involves both the precise identification and targeting of likely audiences, while at the same time trying to maximise its appeal to the broadest possible market. Focusing and defocusing in one go. How wide of the mark this effort can sometimes be.
Now if somebody had [...]
Another chance, as they say, to hear (the late) Humphrey Lyttleton’s appraisal of Louis Prima on BBC Radio 4. As Humphrey says, most people knew Prima only as the voice of King Louie in The Jungle Book, but there was much more to him than that one song. Prima and his band [...]
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