Inspirational Notes from Disney Workshops...

Animation Meat recently posted a whole buncha pdf from the drawing instructor for Walt Disney Studios. Really nice stuff. Check it out even if you're not an animator!

http://www.animationmeat.com/notes/waltstanchfield/waltstanchfield.html

Probably the most important post I'll ever make...

http://www.the-underdogs.org/

For those of you unfamiliar with this site, it's a post of all the games that are the creme de la creme...and out of print. So, you loved playing System Shock or Captin Goodnight and wanna have another crack at it.

They got 'em all. And most of them can be downloaded for free via BitTorrent.

Go and be merry.

About my 2d animation links....

I'm letting my subsciption to my web hosting service expire on the 1st of Feb. I haven't set up another place to put those little examples of my work, but when I find something I'll be sure to put them up again on the site.

If anywaon knows of any free hosing for movies, please let me know

Gopher Broke finally put online...

I've been waiting to see this for a while. Gopher Broke is a very cool shot by Blur Studios down in LA. They have two other shorts whic you should check out on their website as well as some ad stuff which is pretty cool too. Really inspiring stuff.

Watch Gopher Broke short

Blur Studios Web Site

Great website for animation and inspiration...

This guys stuff is pretty cool. He's got a unique style...kinda like Bill Plympton but a little more refined.

http://www.squarefootagefilms.com/smith/index.html

Concept art link...

Just realized I didn't provide the URL! I'm going to post all my sketchbook stuff over there from now on...but I'll let u know when I make a post so u can go check it...

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=59922

Some stuff from my sketchbook...

I started a sketchbook thread over at conceptart.org...and awesome website if you've never been there before. I'll post some of the images here too ;)

IPod TP holder a little late for xmas...

So, I went to MacWorld last week. I got in free so I decided ta go even thought I don't own a mac. Man, was it silly. A whole expo of useless ipod crap. Here' my favore though. A combo ipod/tp holder. I know I want one...



Also, I've posted a few of my animations from school on my website. Just click on the links and they should download to your computer. The final animation has a little error with black bars flying across the screen (you'll see it) which I should be able to fix when I go back and scan the drawings in. Nothing amazing, but you can see how I'm improving just between last semester and now.

http://grosscartoons.org/T&GPics/

BTW, the final project movie was probably over 500 individual drawings. Here's what the final stack of movies looks like...

Preview footage for new Zelda game!

Here's a video preview of actual gameplay footage for the new Zelda game! Yay!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6760524994902687555&q=nintendo

New Sounds for New Windows...

I don't normally post news items, but this was really interesting. Turns out the guitarist from King Crimson has been creating the new default sounds for windows vista, the new operating system that's coming out soon. Can't wait to have Thrakattak playing on startup ;).

http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=151853