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

Jason Schleifer talk

TEDx Youth talk with Head of Animation on PDIIDreamworks' new film "Peabody and Sherman" Jason Schleifer. He talks about the importance of individual moments in the character's story arc.



Great talk! Check out his website here:

jasonschleifer.com

Balto

I was introduced to Balto (directed by Simon Wells) by Nouche only in the last 5 years, even though it was released back in 1995. Greatly underrated movie, with some amazingly animated scenes.

Ron Doucet over at Flooby Nooby (love the name) posted an amazing collection of model sheets, line tests, story boards, you name it. It's a huge post that I can spend hours staring at.

Check out the extensive post here:

http://floobynooby.blogspot.ca/2012/03/balto.html

It's awesome!

James Baxter - Spirit line tests

James Baxter is awesome. Here's one of many reasons why. Two line tests from the movie "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron". If you haven't seen this movie (or think it's a pony movie for 10 year old girls - which unfortunately was how it was marketed) go out and rent it, or better yet buy it and study it for horse reference. It's one of the best animated movies in my opinion.





Thanks to Jamaal Bradley for posting this on Vimeo

Frame by Frame

Awesome collection of frame by frame analysis of scenes from animated movies

http://framexframe.tumblr.com/

Video Reference - Gianluca Fratellini

Here's an awesome video by Gianluca Fratellini, who I currently work with at Double Negative on "John Carter". Here are his reference videos that ended up being shots for the movies "Paul" and "Planet 51".



And Stein makes an appearance in it! Everybody say hi to Stein.

HI STEIN!!!