Mark Andrews

With Pixar's "Brave" coming out soon, I thought I'd post this lecture from "Brave"'s director Mark Andrews. Both parts are great, but in part 2 he discusses the importance of clear story decisions and discovering "what the story is and how it needs to be told visually".





Great advice for the storytellers in all of us. Oh and Mark gives you permission to "mess up" :)

Thanks to The Rabbit Room for positing this a while back:
http://www.rabbitroom.com/2012/03/good-advice-froom-pixars-mark-andrews/

McGurk Effect

Interesting video about visual speech information, and the illusion of the "McGurk Effect" and that what we see over rides what we hear.



It'll have you hearing "BAH...BAH...BAH" for the rest of the day

How Musician's Communicate Emotion

Interesting article and video about how emotion is communicated through music and how people find the most expressive versions to be the music that has variations in timing, and loudness and softness.

It can relate to animation as well, as sometimes the most interesting animations to watch have the same type of variations.






Thanks to "Spying for Lying" for posting this:
http://www.spyingforlying.com/2012/02/how-musicians-and-everybody-else.html

Shekhar Kapur TED talk

Great TED talk from director Shekhar Kapur ("Elizabeth" and it's sequel "The Golden Age") where he talks about "getting rid of your mind" in creative situations.




For more great director TED talks, including James Cameron and JJ Abrams, check out Empire Magazine's Best Film makers list:

http://www.empireonline.com/features/best-film-ted-talks/p1

Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story

Interesting and informative talk about Story telling from the director of "Wall-E", "Finding Nemo" and "John Carter".