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Body Mechanics Rigs - Mega Pack! The Cinematography of "The Incredibles" Part 1. Whether its up shots or down shots, you'll often find these lines that run through the character's eyes, again unconsciously leading your eyes to where the director wants you to focus.

The Cinematography of "The Incredibles" Part 1

With so many nice angles that keep making the shots look visually interesting even when they are meant to be very simple, all reminds of the show Mad Men. Almost that retro look, I suppose The Incredibles is meant to be set in the 50s and then once they flash forward to after the marriage and the trial we're in the 60s. It's strong, graphic, bold cinematic storytelling displayed in the visual grammar of this film. Like in the Mad Men, The Incredibles has sleek color combinations and contrasting shapes, well balanced imagery, textures space on the screen is well balanced with flat texture-less areas, particular areas of each shot hold certain amounts of weight and value.

See all the crazy angles in the following shots. VNOG Blog. 10 Tools for Digital Storytelling in Class. Digital storytelling is simply using computer-based tools to tell stories.

10 Tools for Digital Storytelling in Class

There are many different ways to do this – from making movies, recording voices, creating animations or electronic books. In schools they can help to take a task that might be seen as mundane – write a report, write a story, explain a process, describe an experiment – and turn it into something a whole lot more interesting. LEGEND OF KORRA STORYBOARDS Ep 10 by LeSeanThomas on deviantART. Radhowtoschool.com. Living Lines Library. From Paper to After Effects - Creating an Animated Short from Scratch: Lesson 03 by e.d. Films. The funkship. Amanda's Drawing Blog. So here is my film, Undina: I don't have -too- much to say about it except that is was a pretty good experience.

Amanda's Drawing Blog

It took me a long time to figure out the story and which direction to go in, and looking back at it, it seems so simple. Well! That's exactly what it wasn't; I needed to really simplify it, and eventually I did, but I think in the future if I make another short (and I hope to) it'll be much simpler. I wanted to focus on animating since I didn't have much in my demo reel animation-wise, so I'm glad I kept it at the rough stage.The story was a big challenge for me, but I did it and I learned a lot.

The pencil colouring turned out to be a lot more work than I was able to do for the deadlines, so I decided against it, although in some scenes Becky has rosey cheeks. Also, there is pretty much no effects in my film. Flooby Nooby. Thinking Animation Blog. Untitled. Resources. Drama Book Shop www.dramabookshop.com Located in New York since 1917, this is the best place to find acting editions of stage plays.

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Script-o-Rama www.script-o-rama.com Complete movie scripts, available for downloading. These sites are operated by enthusiastic movie fans, the kind of people who will go to the trouble of putting complete scripts in cyberspace in the first place The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences www.oscars.org This organization, based in Beverly Hills, sponsors the Academy Awards. The American Film Institute www.afi.com AFI is an elite school for directors, cinematographers, editors, production designers, screenwriters and producers. Internet Movie Database www.IMDB.com Contains entries – cast info, plots, etc – for two million movies plus TV series.

American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards www.tonys.org The Tony Awards are the theatre’s equivalent of Academy Awards. JoeBowers Interview. Animated Movies - Rotoscopers. Reference! Reference! - free database for animation. Videos in "AniRef" Posts from a wannabe animator. The Best Way to Render Wireframe in Maya. Posted: January 25th, 2010 | Author: Ayan | Filed under: 3D | Tags: 3D, Maya | 61 Comments » A quick google for render wireframe in Maya will get you some sound results.

The Best Way to Render Wireframe in Maya

Unfortunately, I tried them and they didn’t consistently produce the results I needed. So here is the most consistent, and thus in my opinion best way to do wireframe in Maya. Method 1: “The Best Way” – Mental Ray Contours Why is it the best? Rendering Wireframe with Mental Ray The Worse Ways For full disclosure, here are some other not so good ways to render wireframe.

Method 2: UV Snapshot I don’t feel like doing the process for this one. Method 3: Maya Vector Rendering in Maya Vector is fairly painless to test. Countdown of the 50 Most Influential Animators in Disney Studio History. No Stupid Questions with Colin Smith. Share this Episode Please select a language: Autoplay End of Video Show End Screen Default Quality Adjust your embed size below, then copy and paste the embed code above. Community Translation Episode available in 2 languages Available Translations: Join the Community Translation Project Thanks for your interest in translating this episode! Please Confirm Your Interest Thanks for your interest in adding translations to this episode! An error occurred while processing your request. Another translator has already started to translate this episode. Thanks for Participating! Armature.