Animator’s Carpal Tunnel

My wrists are really starting to kill me. I’m in my first animation heavy course load for this quarter, and it hasn’t even been two weeks. Any tips to postpone eventual wrist crippling?

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 On the first day of Christmas a yeti told me,

 That the man in the moon was watching over me.

Daily sketch thing. Crappy photo, might re-post when I get better lighting here.

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artist bio page for my mini comic/ final.

fictograph:

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS GIVEAWAY!

I have been blown away by the support Rise of the Guardians has received from Tumblr.  And also  - thank you so much for 2,500 followers!  I didn’t plan to do this, but I’m holding another giveaway.  Prize pack contains (My lovely model, quillery, is not included):

• 27” x 40” RotG poster (huge! theater size!)
• Black, Unisex, M, RotG crowds department t-shirt (crew exclusive! not in stores! drawn by Andrew Harkins )
• 7”x10” drawing of Jack and Pitch by me (original pencils!)

I will ship internationally.  This giveaway isn’t associated with Tumblr or DreamWorks, it’s a personal “thanks” to my followers.  No information personal will be used by Tumblr or given away to third parties.

TO ENTER:

• Enter your (regular) tumblr username once into THIS FORM. (required, multiple entries result in disqualification.)
• Please re-blog this post. Put the URL of the post in the form!
• Submit your entry by 11:59 PM PST on January 7, 2013.  Winner announced after I return from winter break.
• Enable your ask box, so I can contact you. Otherwise, no prizes!
• Winner has one week to respond, or I will pick a new one.

That’s it, and good luck! 

EDIT, PS: Check out the Croods Trailer.

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sung-me:

102 Resources for Fiction Writers

caspock:

paintsandquills:

vulpesinculta:

Are you still stuck for ideas for National Novel Writing Month? Or are you working on a novel at a more leisurely pace? Here are 102 resources on Character, Point of View,…

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electrikfeather:

Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer:

Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the dangers posed by traffic, suspicion of terrorism, and the possibility that no one would be interested in helping a lost little robot, I initially conceived the Tweenbots as disposable creatures which were more likely to struggle and die in the city than to reach their destination. Because I built them with minimal technology, I had no way of tracking the Tweenbot’s progress, and so I set out on the first test with a video camera hidden in my purse. I placed the Tweenbot down on the sidewalk, and walked far enough away that I would not be observed as the Tweenbot––a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary––bumped along towards his inevitable fate.

The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”

The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me, was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining it’s destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot.

That’s really sweet! If only people were as nice to each other as they were to this little robot.

thearetical:

Steven Spielberg on animators: “All directors should be animators first…”

"Finals is like looking for the light at the end of the tunnel, but the tunnel takes 53 hours to walk, and you can only sleep for two of them, and once you stumble out, you still have to clean up all the stuff you tripped over in the dark, mostly piles of paper, which are probably concealing used x-acto blades from that last project, but it’s all good because there are at least a hundred other people stumbling around the tunnel with you and only five of them are infected with the zombie plague."

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Second render: Aziraphale’s back room.

I like to think he nabbed a first edition of the ten commandments after that whole mess with the nazis and Harrison Ford.

Also, CG jammie dodgers