Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.
A delightfully dark short by Rodrigo Blaas and a mostly Spanish crew that’s won a slew of festival awards.
Full credits on the website here.
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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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A little explanation: “Snowballs” was the original working title for “Balto“.
These two keys show the interior of a gold dredging machine in Nome, Alaska.
The quality isn’t great because they are from colour copies, but the vision is spot on.
Click ‘em to enlarge ‘em folks!
Workshop interior.
Gold dredger interior.
Production designer Hans Bacher turned out hundreds of these [...]
1: Lecturer in Design (Illustration & Animation) at Blackburn College
( The application deadline isn’t stated in the ad, but I imagine it will close within a couple of weeks)
2: Demonstrator in Computer Animation at Bournemouth University
Application deadline: Midnight on Thursday 24 September 2009
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The fifth and last short film made by the 2nd Year Gobelins students’ work has been shown as the curtain raiser at the Annecy International Animation Festival.
It’s titled “Jelly Sunday”. (Believe it or not)
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This short seems to me to have strong influences from John Kricfalusi and Bill Wray
The mix [...]
DODUDINDON made its debut at the Annecy International Animation Festival today.
It’s the fourth of a series of films by students from the Gobelins School of Communication, in Paris.
The production crew, Lucrèce Andreae, Julien Chheng, Tracy Nowocien, and Rémy Schaepman, have concocted a story of a plucky young turkey who wants to woo a buxom lady [...]
The rays of the sun wake FENRIR the wolf from a millennial sleep in the tangled roots of the colossal tree Yggdrasil, and from its topmost branches he attacks the sun. Behind him, a hero appears ….
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The action is fast and furious in this film, with some astonishing [...]
The second Gobelins student film to be shown at the Annecy International Animation Festival has just been released.
It’s called Le Lac Gelé – The Frozen Lake.
It was animated by Jean-David Fabre, Fabien Guillaume, Sébastien Hary, Paul Nivet, Vincent Verniers.
An old man is led by a strange dog to a frozen lake in a vast cavern, [...]
Ye it’s that time of year again, when the 2nd year students of the Gobelins School of Communication in Paris put their films on show at the Annecy Animation Festival.
The students work in small crews, concentrating only on the production of their group film. No essays, dissertations or other academic distractions. There [...]
Sorry I’m Late by Tomas Mankovsky.
(Requires QuickTime)
The “Making Of” is very engaging and informative, too.
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