Computer Animation Arts

  This particular video  shows genuine approaches within traditional media as well as CG pipeline. Lots of inspiration for generating styles, coming up with unique textures, shape animations and so on!

Courtesy of Living Lines - a sumptuous assortment of production art and character development from Disney's The Lion King .    Go feast your eyes - properly wonderful stuff!

Three fascinating short docs in which Disney's Paperman 's director John Kahrs discusses the look behind the animated short that promises to re-invigorate cgi and open up a new aesthetic. Of particular interest is what Kahrs has to say about 'photorealism' and cgi, as he seeks to put drawing back into the mix.

Just caught this article on Empire and thought I should share it. A very lovely variety of concept art from different Pixar films has been put together here , so take a look! :D

  An absolutely gorgeous variety of concept work here  courtesy of  Living Lines . There's just too much to link at once so here's a video they also provided:

Found this in my travels - Adobe Kuler http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/rating?time=30 , a website with a massive archive of colour palettes. Handy little tool for when you're stuck for colour ideas. Because it's user generated content some palettes are good, others not so much, but stick to 'highest rated' or 'most popular' and you'll be okay.

Someone once said, "A week is a long time in politics". The same is true of CG Arts & Animation, where within the space of seven short days, whole new worlds spring into being, new life-forms are born, evolve and grow, and new stories go from improbable musings and jotted plots to entertaining animatics and dynamic pre-visualisations. One short week ago, CGAA Year 1 had their Unit 4 Storytelling crit, and I was particularly impressed by the ambition and professionalism of much of the work submitted.  With stories ranging from Steve Payne's ingeniously monikered Frankenstylist to Nick Baker's superhero parody, The Crimson Corn , there  was much to enjoy and it was a positive day.  Sammy Butler's & Son was particularly  effective, and I'm kicking off this week's PWTM with Sammy's Making of and animatic.   & Son is the best resolution of the 'turn-3-randomly-picked-story-components-into-an-idea-for-an-animated-short' c...