Archive for the ‘Links & Inspiration’ Category

Spam, tabs and updates.

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Hey all, haven’t done a blog in a long time so heres a little update. Firstly, i’d like to thank all those russian spammers for constantly reminding me that I actually do have a blog, and sorry no I’m not interested in your sex toys, money making spams, although I do appreciate your fake flattery on the quality of my blog! Anyway, lets get into those tabs, finally get to clear them up…

I have collected a bunch of animations, some old, some new, but they are all pretty cool and have a great level of detail, skill and creativity involved. I’ve had them open in my firefox tabs for weeks now because I’ve watched them so many times, so time to get them cemented in my blog!


Kajimba
Kajimba is a 26 episode x 5 min CGI series in production at ProMotion Studios in Sydney, Australia. Conceived by James Neale, it is aimed at an older market owing to the flavour of the language and themes

Kajimba Annecy 2009 - trailer from Kajimba on Vimeo.



Alarm

‘ALARM’ done completely by ‘Moo-hyun Jang’, a director of the independant animation team MESAI It’s pretty self explainatory so just sit back, watch and enjoy!



This Side Up

“A naive music-lover’s patience is tested on his quest to download music online, as his perspective on technology completely changes.” - Animated by Liron Topaz and you can visit the official site of the movie at http://www.this-side-up.com/



Blip
“Two aliens try to take over the same planet.”
A short 3d animated film, produced by Ben Harper and Sean Mullen in our 3rd year at the Irish School of Animation.

COPYRIGHT Ben Harper Sean Mullen © 2008
seanmullenartwork.blogspot.com
benmation.blogspot.com

Blip from Sean Mullen on Vimeo.



Planet 51
Movie trailer for a new animated film set to be released in Australia on 10th December 2009. Planet 51.
The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture and recover his spaceship.



Cloudy with a chance of Meat Balls
Movie trailer for a new animated film set to be released in Australia on 26th November 2009, Cloudy with a chance of Meat Balls.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs will be the most delicious event since macaroni met cheese! Inspired by Judi and Ron Barrett’s children’s book, the film focuses on a town where food falls from the sky like rain.



Sigg Jones
An oldie but a goodie: “When the heavy weight champion wrestler Sigg Jones drinks a strange Powerdrink he loses control of himself unleashing all the good he had. His Agent will have to set him straight…” http://www.siggjones.com/

Sigg Jones from Asterokid on Vimeo.



Galactic Mail
From the same makers of Sigg Jones, here’s another high quality animation sure to impress! A fast paced race to deliver the mail on time to its destination, which mail carrier will come out on top??

Galactic Mail from Asterokid on Vimeo.



Wrap Up
I’ll leave it at that, will have to update you with more projects that are in development, update you on the renderfarm research, and share some ideas and concepts I hope to be working on in the near future. For now, i’ll leave that for the next post (this was longer than I expected, thought I had less tabs open than that!)

Feel free to leave feedback on what you believe makes a good animation, what works well and what doesn’t. Really keen on hearing opinions on these animations as I hope in the near future i’ll have an animation in the works!

- Jarrad Gittos

Links, Inspiration and Ideas Part 2

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

More links that I have open on my firefox. Both inspiring and amazing in their own rights…

Videos

Whats in the Box?

The first video is a video by a student in a ‘half-life’ style theme. It is said the film test was done 100% from him, using a combination of 3d Studio Max, After FX, a Camera and a budget of 150 €. Time will tell if this is just a form of viral advertising for an upcomming game or something along these lines, but either way its a really impressive and inspiring piece of film work. The name of it is “Whats in the box?” and revolves around a box, and a world that appears to be affected by some extra terrestrial activity. Anyway, check it out good montage of awesome camera work, special effects, good storyline and good composition.



Steel Life

This is another student project - this time a Masters student study on visual effects mainly. Its very subjective about the meaning of the film, so I will not preach to you what it is about… It has some impressive effects, and montage to create an interesting array of visuals…


Steel Life from Mathieu Gérard on Vimeo.



No Fat Clips!!!

This final link is an aggregation of a lot of movies, short films and visual entertainment. Have yet to look at many movies on this website but it will sure be a good source of reference and inspiration.The no fat clips website can be found at: http://dekku.blogspot.com/

I’ll leave it there, as there is so much more to post (useless or helpful, its all to jog my memory later when I get too senile to remember anyway…).

Ciao!!

- Jarrad

Links, inspiration and extras.

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

This post is intended to be a way of saving those tabs ive had open in my firefox browser for days. Hopefully by writing this blog, I will be able to restart my macbook pro haha. Anyway I’ll leap right into it. First thing - animation links that are inspiring…

Videos:

Meindbender Studio Showreel - inspiring and unique animation, awesome rendering/lighting, and good attention to detail especially when it comes to camera movement. Good inspiration for how an appealing showreel should be put together.


Adrenaline Lemmings CGI test from Alex Orrelle on Vimeo.

Inspiring animation, composite of character animation and clever video footage to put together a short but incredible display of animation and production skills. I hope one day I can collaborate with some people to produce some good showreel material.

Twitter/General Links:

AnimationXpress on Twitter - A lot of links to animation related information which I intend to have a more detailed look through - other things to look at are…

Animation Mentor blogs which I’ve missed out on andddd…. watch the stack of e-critiques from the 11 second club, they have a LOT of tips and tricks in there for fellow animators: 11 Second Club Feedback

Tutorial links:

1001 Adobe After FX tutorials shared by someone over twitter (apologies I forgot who actually linked it so im sorry if im not giving you credit). Id suggest download as many tutorials as you can because the internet being the internet, they wont all stay around for long.

Modelling Technique - modelling techniques using the Iron Man helmet… This is the EXACT modelling technique I use, especially the closer edges to carve in details after smoothing - I recommend it, creates incredibly efficient and easy models.

I think thats the majority of links that I had open which were noteworthy, so that saves me from having them all open. On another note, I may have some big contracts coming through which require more rendering grunt, so I’m off to do some research about mini-rendering farms and will most likely be posting links here if I deem them useful and informative. Most likely try and base them off the ikea helmer render farm.

Will keep this updated for my crazy thoughts!

- Jarrad