Wednesday 30 September 2015

Genius animated GIF video is weirdly addictive

Genius animated GIF video is weirdly addictive  by 3D World Magazine "The music video for the track Drifted on The Shoes' new album, Chemicals, is an inspired mash-up of all your favourite animated GIFs, interwoven with a bizarre patchwork of looping pop culture-infused images."


Tuesday 29 September 2015

You should be animating a Jerboa!

You should be animating a Jerboa! It's a bouncing ball and you'll get a creature animation shot on your reel! It doesn't get any better eh!. ;D

Monday 28 September 2015

Calling All Future Walt Disneys: New System Makes 3-D Animation Easy

Calling All Future Walt Disneys: New System Makes 3-D Animation Easy Smartly from NYU "Andy Nealen, an assistant professor of game engineering, computer graphics, and perceptual science at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, has created a system that makes it possible for even beginners to create sophisticated and complex 3D animation. AniMesh, as he and his fellow researchers are calling the system, supports interleaved modeling and animation creation and editing and is particularly suitable for rapid prototyping."

Friday 25 September 2015

Secret to Finding Inner Peace at a Toxic Job

Secret to Finding Inner Peace at a Toxic Job Fresh from Linkedin Pulse "Finding inner peace at a toxic job starts inside your head. ... Most people say, "I can't help it. Things happen at work that cause me to feel the way I do." However, that's not technically true. We all have the freedom to choose how we react to things that happen to us...."

Many of us have been there, and we are proof that you shouldn't cope with toxic work environments. However, when getting another job is not that easy, there are tools that will help you to deal with the storm before the arrival of better days.

Thursday 24 September 2015

Airbnb Uses Old School Animation Techniques To Create A Different Paris

Airbnb Uses Old School Animation Techniques To Create A Different Paris Via Fast Company "Not long ago, Airbnb Chief Marketing Officer Jonathan Mildenhall told Co.Create that the brand's primary mission was to communicate the notion of belonging, make people realize how important it is and how differentiating that makes the Airbnb proposition. He went on to say that the new frontier for the brand is working to create emotional and compelling stories that make people feel like they're having a human experience as opposed to being sold something by a brand..."



Wednesday 23 September 2015

Cartoon Network Launches Television's First-Ever Virtual Reality Game

Cartoon Network Launches Television's First-Ever Virtual Reality Game Via The Futon Critic "Cartoon Network announced today the launch of the first-ever virtual reality game based on a television franchise, Adventure Time: Magic Man's Head Games. Based on the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning, global hit series Adventure Time, this first-of-its-kind game builds on Cartoon Network's dominance in the mobile games space, and furthers the network's mission to deliver innovative content and experiences to its fans in unique and immersive ways..." 

Tuesday 22 September 2015

Brad Bird Wants To Make A Hand-Drawn 2D Animated Horror Movie

Brad Bird Wants To Make A Hand-Drawn 2D Animated Horror Movie Fresh from ToonZone! "There’s never been a horror movie in animation executed at Disney-level quality and hand-drawn. I’m not talking about CG; I’m talking about hand-drawn, but it doesn’t take a lot to imagine how cool that would be..."

Monday 21 September 2015

Nancy Bernstein, Former DreamWorks Animation Head of Production, Dies at 55

Nancy Bernstein, Former DreamWorks Animation Head of Production, Dies at 55 The good die young :'(

Watch This insane New Honda Ad Driven by Stop Motion Animation

Watch This insane New Honda Ad Driven by Stop Motion Animation "This ad’s really not about paper flipping – it’s about paper engineering”, says Tom Peyton, Honda’s assistant vp of advertising, in a behind-the-scenes video on the commercial’s production. This rejuvenated approach to overall brand marketing is the sum of Honda’s best thinking and could only come from the company’s years of design and innovation. ..."