Tag Archive for 'animation'

Zombie Zombie: Stop-Motion Tribute to “The Thing”

Published on November 24, 2008 in inspiration. 0 Comments Tags: action figure, animation, inspiration, movie, stop-motion, toy.

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Awesome stop-motion animation tribute to John Carpenter’s classic monster flick “The Thing”, using G.I. Joe action figures.

via otomano: La Cosa.

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The Animator’s Survival Kit

Published on June 21, 2008 in cartooning. 0 Comments Tags: animation, art, cartoon, cartooning, character, drawing, DVD, resources, tutorials, web links.

The Animators Survival Kit instructional DVD set This Animator’s Survival Kit DVD setÂ from Oscar-winning animator Richard Willams looks like a great resource for those animators out there. Personally, I do not have the patience for animation, but it’s fascinating to me.

This DVD set is a companion to Williams’ highly-rated Animator’s Survival Kit book. The site doesn’t seem to indicate if the book is included with the DVD set, but it seems not to be.

Richard Williams was awarded two Oscars for the animation on “Who Framed Roger Rabbit“. He directed and designed Roger Rabbit,Â Jessica Rabbit, Baby Herman and all the new characters for the Walt Disney/Steven Spielberg production.

The set isn’t cheap atÂ Â£634.04 (or about $1,252.42 for us U.S. folks as of the date of this post).

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Pencil: Free Vector & Bitmap Drawing/Animation Software for Mac & Windows

Published on August 1, 2007 in cartooning and software. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, animation, Apple, art, bitmap, cartoon, cartooning, drawing, free, freeware, Illustration, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, software, vector.

Pencil Vector Animation Software - screenshot

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Pencil is a free, open-source vector and bitmap graphics animation/drawing application. I have not had a chance to try it out just yet, but will do so in the near future and pop a review on the ol’ blog.

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