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A little hop from a project I'm working on.

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Working on a storyboard and video for an Energy Conservation group we have in town.

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Just a small little something for my mother. Happy Mother's Day mom, and thank you for everything you've done for me.

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A WIP for something I'd like to complete for Mother's Day. Using BodyPaint for the ribs in the petals and stipples in the center.

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A test for a wind elemental project that never materialized. 

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Remember to quit the prerender habit! Get as much done as you can before waiting to see the result.

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Observing plant behavior through a crude timelapse.

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Incorporating Adobe Media Encoder into my workflow has really freed me up to work on projects while rendering.

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Playing around with some old videostreams from Videocopilot, self-typing expressions, and chromatic aberration. 

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Welp, you can't win every time. Trying character modeling for the first time.

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Why yes, I am a fan of fans.

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Just a simple fan i've been working on.

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My brief test in CINEBENCH R15.  It is a very useful way to test your computer against MAXON's score system.

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Guess who is going to the Collider Digital Conference in New York!

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Such an amazing video, it kills me that the record company would hold it hostage to force a contract. Highly inspirational, especially with everything happening in Boston at the moment, take a look at this beautiful video and share it with your friends. bombsfall:

Hello. I am the director/animator guy of Toh Kay’s With Any Sort Of Certainty video. You may have seen it. In fact, 55+k of you did in the first 48 hours. That is until the fine folks at (asshat record label) issued a takedown complaint to Youtube and Vimeo, for Tomas’ own original song and my own original animation. They took it off of my Vimeo account. That felt… weird. At this point, (asshat record label) is working their hardest to make sure the video goes away, possibly for good. The issues between Tomas and (asshat record label) go back through many acrimonious years, and I just happened to have my own work dragged into it by a record label trying to prove a point. They have lawyers. I do not. So I can’t fight them and it may take a long time for it to get ironed out enough that I can repost it again.

I worked very hard on this video. It means a lot to me. And I was so pleased and gratified to know that it meant a lot to some of you who saw it. Thanks so much for your emails and stuff. You guys are great. Both Tomas and I will have the video on our sites, but who knows how long that will last. And we both want as many people to see/hear it as possible, and to have it readily available for new people to see and hopefully connect with and enjoy.

And so, here is a download link for the full 1920x1080 video. It should be good for about 2 weeks. Enjoy it. Upload it anywhere and everywhere. Remix it. Torrent it. Blog it. Tumblr it. Tweet it. Steal it. Give it. Um… print it out and post it on walls? I don’t know. Whatever the spirit moves you to do.

Neither of us want to see this thing we’ve worked on go away. You can’t ever really erase something from the internet, especially music and art. It just gets out there, that’s what’s so great about it. It lasts. And with your help it should only be a quick and easy Google search away from anyone who wants to see it.

Thanks so much for caring. Go and buy some stuff directly from Tomas and support him during this fucked up situation. And if you are so inclined, check out my work and my prints here.

Thanks!

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Went for a photowalk today and decided to turn one into a typographic piece on procrastination.  I wanted a to make a simple arcing eye movement while personifying the seagull and making use of negative space. I've fallen in love with the modern slab-serif Calvert and wanted to experiment with a Small Cap version of an older, whimsical font: Caslon 540 (also thinking it's low x-height and boxlike structure would go well with Calvert's rectangular figure). The seagull's text is slightly tilted to give it more of a gesture and sudden appearance as if he just suddenly spat it out, while identifying the font with the text above. Enjoy! Hope you liked the breakdown. Comments and critiques are always welcome.

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A very nice study, I'm glad these comparisons were made.

Here’s more material from my theory lectures. I made these clips to analyze various timing styles by showing the exact frame overlap of each animation. The clips on the left basically isolate the motion and allow us to see and compare it clearly - without design, color or sound distracting our brains.

My last post showed how motion-contrast was something that evolved over time. These examples show how motion, as it’s own aesthetic, eventually branched out into different schools of timing. Each one is a refined method of representing movement in a stylized way. They don’t strive towards realism, their beauty is in how unrealistic they are while still communicating ideas. They are all solutions to the same problem: how does a character get from one place to another.

Animation schools are extremely dogmatic about teaching essentially Disney timing, the 3d animation we see in the cinema is just a continuation of these old principles. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, but theres so much else to explore. A lot of (dumb) people dismiss South Park’s animation, but it’s an education in minimalism. Richard Williams’s style (the 2nd clip) is obsessively smooth and floaty. Anime uses very few drawings and feels choppy and solid.

Hopefully this shows you that animation is basically music, theres entire genres of motion if you look deep enough.