Archive for April, 2006
Meet The Robinsons
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Animation talks at the Science Museum
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Talk Animation! is a series of speaker presentations by industry insiders, ranging from visual effects experts to animation character developers, giving visitors a deeper understanding of the creativity and technology involved in all aspects of animation.
Flash on mobile
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For me this should be as standard on all mobiles! Looks like they are starting to do it in the US though:
“In a move sure to put a premium on mobile developers conversent with Adobe’s “Flash Lite” product, beta news reports that Verizon has begun shipping phones preloaded with Flash Lite installed.
Recently there has been a great deal of discussion about which platform would ultimately prove to be the dominant platform for which mobile applications are developed (including a strong case for mobile AJAX over at Open Garden’s )and while this doesn’t necessarily answer the question with any authority, the fact that a company as big as Verizon is showing such strong support for this mobile platform certainly has large implications for handset manufacturers and developers alike.”
Watch this space . . .
Karas game challenge
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Thought of the day
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Saw this over at Seward Street, sums things up nicely I think.
“From The Illusion of Life:
“[The animator] must understand [the scene] and feel it; it must be his own, regardless of where the ideas come from. It is this personal thinking of the animator that makes the scene good, not the reliance on others to tell him what to do.”
It seems like sometimes there can be way too many opinions on how a scene should be done – so much so, that we as animators feel like we have lost “ownership” over our scene. We’re no longer animating the scene the way we want, but rather the way someone else wants us to. It is impossible to invest any emotion into something that is no longer ours.
And it is our scene. We’re the artist. The animator. The one entrusted to bring life to an imaginary character.
An animator must be given rights to a scene if it is to be successful. Without our personal investment in a scene, it lies dead and flat on the screen like so much roadkill.”
The end of those pesky emails?
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Four indicted in Nigerian email scam. Read more here
Pharma companies to release animated movies for kids
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Intersting little article this:
“Hollywood – Two pharmaceutical companies are diving into the world of children’s animated films with the upcoming summer releases of Mucinex’s “Mr Mucus” and Lamisil’s “The Adventures of Digger Nail Fungus Infection.” “Not only will we entertain children, but we’ll also teach them at a young age about the danger of onychomycosis, which is a nail fungus infection,” said Walter Sanderson, a spokesman for Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, the maker of Lamisil.
After dominating the commercial time slots during the network evening newscasts, the pharmaceutical companies are looking to widen their audience by taking aim at young children with movies that feature the lovable animated mascots for their products.”
The concepts quite neat, although kids are no fools these days so the script & animation had better be good!
Seems the trend!
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