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growth
Posted by dermot on September 20, 2009 at 7:03 pmHere’s a clip from my in-progress animated documentary. This sequence deals with the implications of exponential growth on a finite planet:
The voice is temporary, and will be replaced with a human narrator when the script is finalised.
The animation was done in Flash, with the exception of the spherical scene, where the doubling square is mapped [...]
the age of stupid
Posted by dermot on September 18, 2009 at 3:54 pmHere’s a nice scene from the soon to be released film “The Age of Stupid”:
It looks like they used After Effects for a lot of the character animation, as best as I can tell. Not sure if I see any Flash here. And a lot of 3D for the final spot.
lego animation: 8-bit
Posted by dermot on August 25, 2009 at 6:26 pmThis is mind-boggling: a stop motion animation, all done with Lego blocks:
animators vs. “producers” & “writers”
Posted by dermot on April 20, 2009 at 2:40 pmOver the years, animators have increasingly come to be seen as “wrists”. Monkeys chained to their desks, tap tap tapping away for their superiors - the writers and producers who deem themselves the true “creatives”.
Newsflash: holding a bag of money or a position of power on the greasy pole makes you many things. Creative, alas, [...]
an etiquette guide for animation clients
Posted by dermot on April 14, 2009 at 10:01 pmOK; you need to hire an animation studio to bring your animated property to life. Before you start, there are some basic suggestions that you may need to consider:
1. If you’re going to design fully realistic detailed human characters for a Flash project, don’t be surprised when the final animation doesn’t look like the Esurance [...]
interactive flash face
Posted by dermot on April 5, 2009 at 10:35 pmHere’s a cool interactive face (click on image for link):