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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Paperman Blends Hand Drawn Animation With CGI Brilliantly
Paperman is a 2012 black-and-white animated short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and directed by John Kahrs. The short blends traditional animation and computer animation and is now available online. |
Paperman is different from many recent cartoons, not just because of the limited color palette and retro styling of the characters and the world they live in, but because it doesn’t look like the generic, quasi-photo-realistic CGI that is becoming more and more common. Paperman actually looks as if real people have created it, not machines, and that’s something we haven’t really seen in feature animation for years.
That’s intentional, according to the man behind the short. Director John Kahrs told Cartoon Brew that the origin of Paperman “really came out of working so much with Glen [Keane] on Tangled.” After looking at the work of Keane — a classic Disney animator who worked on The Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast and Aladdin, among many other projects – Kahrs found himself with a new appreciation for traditional animation and drawing techniques. “I thought, Why do we have to leave these drawings behind? Why can’t we bring them back up to the front of the image again? Is there a way that CG can kinda carry along the hand drawn line in a way that we haven’t done before?”
Paperman‘s seemingly seamless way of blending the personality of hand-drawn animation with CGI in the physical space of the story is the result of new in-house software called Meander, a vector-based drawing program that allows for manipulation of the line after the fact — something that Kahrs described as “just like painting on the surface of the CG.”
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academy awards,
anmiation,
digital art,
disney,
film,
illustration,
Meander,
paperman
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Lew Keiler Morphs His Illustrations Into Compelling Films
Animation
Using the technology his animation is about, illustrator Lew Keller has created a three minute whiteboard animation about Ray Kurzweil and the meaning of the Singularity. |
Technological change is happening at an exponential rate, leading to a date in a future we can barely glimpse. Kurzweil, author of the book, The Singularity Is Near
The film was illustrated shot, edited and co-written by Australian artist and illustrator, Lew Keilar and Stephen Smith served as co-writer and collaborator.
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art,
film,
illustration,
Lew Keilar,
Ray Kurzweil,
Singularity,
whiteboard animation
Monday, April 29, 2013
Reference Images From Classic Disney Animation
Animation
Check out this wonderful series of Disney cartoon scenes superimposed on their real life models. |
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animation,
cartoons,
character design,
disney,
film,
rotoscoping
Thursday, February 14, 2013
SCI-Arc Students Explore The Future Of Robotic Architecture
Architecture
Accelerating The Southern California Institute of Architecture into the 21st Century the new SCI-Arc Robot House, initiated and designed by faculty members Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser, builds upon the school's strengths to create a next generation platform for experimentation and speculation on the future of architecture. |
The course explores robotic motion control as a creative medium for designers, mainly through the use of the custom robotic animation software platform, designed specifically for the SCI-Arc Robot House.
Accelerating SCI-Arc's pace, already at the leading edge of digital design and rapid prototyping, the new SCI-Arc Robot House, initiated and designed by faculty members Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser, builds upon the school's strengths to create a next generation platform for experimentation and speculation on the future of architecture.
Situated conceptually and physically between studio and shop, academy and industry, the double-height 1,000-square-foot Robot House is a research space for hands-on collaborative experimentation, advanced multi-robotic platform, and exploration and architectural agency. Exploring opportunities outside of traditional digital production, our six state-of-the-art Staübli robotic systems offer a new design environment which focuses on Institute-approved research and coursework.
Robot House is comprised of two main spaces. The Robot Room is where the five large Staubli robots are configured in a multi-robot work cell. Their layout empowers investigation with the widest range of interaction and process sequences possible in a simulation and programming environment.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Timothy Samara's Design Elements Is Accessible and Informative
Books
Timothy Samara's book, Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual, available in print and on Kindle is simply the most compact and lucid handbook available outlining the basic design principles of layout, typography, color usage, and space. |
imothy Samara's book, Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual
, available in print and on Kindle is simply the most compact and lucid handbook available outlining the basic design principles of layout, typography, color usage, and space.
Being a creative designer is often about coming up with unique design solutions. Unfortunately, when the basic rules of design are ignored in an effort to be distinctive, design becomes useless. In language, a departure from the rules is only appreciated as great literature if recognition of the rules underlies the text.
Graphic design is a “visual language,” and brilliance is recognized in designers whose work seems to break all the rules, yet communicates its messages clearly.
Being a creative designer is often about coming up with unique design solutions. Unfortunately, when the basic rules of design are ignored in an effort to be distinctive, design becomes useless. In language, a departure from the rules is only appreciated as great literature if recognition of the rules underlies the text.
Graphic design is a “visual language,” and brilliance is recognized in designers whose work seems to break all the rules, yet communicates its messages clearly.
Monday, January 19, 2015
Leonardo's The Lady with an Ermine Takes Comes Alive in 3D
Art
In a new exhibit, Leonardo3-The World of Leonardo, viewers can take in the renaissance master's work in new ways, including a portrait that comes to life. |
The animation is used in a new multimedia exhibit, "Leonardo3-The World of Leonardo," at the Piazza della Scala in Milan. Using a touchscreen, users can see the portrait moving her eyes, yawning, and caressing her little pet.
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3D,
art,
fine art,
Lady with an Ermine,
Leonardo Da Vinci
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