Veteran animator Richard Williams has updated his classic guide for animators, to include additional material on animal action, invention and realism. The new version is called The Expanded Edition.
He was recently interviewed in BBC Radio 4’s “Midweek” programme.
Listen to his 10 minute interview here:
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I’m really happy that my friend and (near) neighbour Colin Stimpson, has kindly sent a panoramic picture from his forthcoming book, Germs!, and it’s now joined the randomised collection of pictures in the header of this blog.
If you were a patient sort of person, you could repeatedly press [Ctrl] 1 + F5 to [...]
You might remember that I posted some drawings by Jose Maria Cao almost exactly a year ago.
As you’ll see from the recent comments in that post, Julio Mauricio Neveleff, curator of the Cao exhibition and author of the catalogue, kindly offered to send me the exhibition catalogue.
I’m really happy to say it arrived yesterday, [...]
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The video above is an illustration of the central argument contained in Naomi Klein’s book, “The Shock Doctrine“, in which she asserts that governments exploit the state of shock suffered by populations after traumatic disasters, to force through measures that would be unpalatable or strongly resisted in calmer times.
Now, eighteen months after publication, The Shock [...]
Every year, The Bookseller magazine organises a search for odd published book titles. This year, the strangest contender so far is “Baboon Metaphysics”, by Dorothy L Cheney & Robert M Seyfarth… (Read on) >>
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Tatsuyuki Tanaka, the animator from 4c Studios whose first major job was key animator on Akira (1988), has a folio of work from his 2003 graphic novel / manga “Cannabis Works” on view at Digik Gallery.
Aside from enjoying the masterly draughtsmanship evident in all his work, I’m [...]
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What’s a boy supposed to do when a penguin turns up at the door?
Take it back to Antarctica of course.
This might mean having to row it all the way back….
Just don’t ask how it arrived in the first place, that’s all….
Above all, do not question how a penguin [...]
Yes, even “Uncle” Frank had parents, but what Francis and Rosemary thought of his purple home décor was not recorded by the Life photographer, John Olson, back in 1970 when this photo was taken.
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This image is another treasure released from Life magazine’s [...]
Who was this animator? He appears to be working on the Siamese cats in Lady and the Tramp (Click for full crew list on IMDB). Can you name him?
You can find his picture alongside ten million others in Google’s new image archive of Life magazines photos. A staggering ninety seven percent of the [...]
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