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Art of Araya - SKETCHBLOG Mr.doob&#039;s blog | More and more Javascript Seems like I'm still hooked to Javascript. For the last few months, on my spare time I've been toying more and more with it, creating little pieces that will serve as personal benchmarks for browser performance improvements. For the next few links I recommend using a WebKit based browser otherwise your browser may crash. The first idea I wanted to try was creating a canvas using checkboxes as pixels. Then display animations with it. I posted the link over twitter and minutes later Aaron was sending me a drawing done with the checkboxes by Valdean Klump. (Press Shift for the eraser tool) Some days after, Joa Ebert ported a Strange Attractor code to Silverlight to compare performance with Flash. I believe the code can get some performance optimisations for the platform but my interests were to compare exactly the same code. 7 F/S seemed a good start. At this point I felt it was about time to go back to toying with 3D worlds. How do you draw with <svg>? Good question.

Toby Shelton: stuff i did 7 Web 2.0 Animation Tools Written by Mark Brumley Animation projects are a great way to integrate technology, encourage project-based learning and have a lot of fun. This month let’s take a quick tour of seven Web 2.0 animation sites for students young and old. For younger students, Kerpoof is an all-time favorite. This site has a suite of creative tools for children that are perfect for the elementary classroom. ABCYa.com is a very simple animation site for young students. Students in upper elementary and middle school will enjoy Fluxtime. Moving up a level of complexity is DigitalFilms.com. GoAnimate is definitely a big step up from the previously mentioned sites and works well for middle and high school students. A powerful, frame-by-frame, animation tool is DoInk. For more involved, 3-D looking animations, try Xtranormal. Give these animation web tools a try and post your comments on the Teacher Experience Exchange. Mark Brumley (112 Posts)

Storyboarding Tips & Advice | Storyboard Templates | Karen J Lloyd's Storyboard Blog And we’re back! Here’s Part 2 of the interview I did with Pixar Story Artist Matthew Luhn. You can find Part 1 of Matthew’s interview here. Enjoy. So I animated a couple of the army men shots on Toy Story and it was very difficult. That was the very first time I saw people actually drawing and creating story at a studio. Even at The Simpsons, they have a script first and then the storyboard artists (like most TV shows) just go directly from the script to drawing the storyboards. But what I was seeing at PIXAR was that there was no script. I totally remember the very first pitch I saw which was the opening for Toy Story in storyboards with Joe Ranft pitching it. At the same time when I’m doing animation and learning how to animate on the computer, the Head of Animation was Pete Doctor. Then John Lasseter was the other guy teaching us how to animate Luxo, because you had to do a Luxo the Lamp jumping animation test. This was a different time. click to continue reading>>

Nigel Tomm&#039;s Most Famous &amp; Super Popular Art Blog THE ART CENTER / Sharing Ideas And Tips From Artist To Artist Here are a few quick little tip sheets I put together for some of my friends who are currently doing storyboard tests and looking to get into boarding. 1. Be Careful of Theater Staging There are no "right" or "wrongs" with storyboarding, only ways that work better than others. Figure out what you want to convey in a scene, and find the best way to present those ideas to your audience.2. Maintaining Screen Side Note: there would obviously be more panels if this was flushed out, to play up the acting and also hook up the action. This is a simple theory of cutting that can easily help create a sense of continuity within a sequence and or exchange. The example above is a bit rudimentary for the sake of demonstrating the concept. As long as you continue to establish any new screen spacing, the sequence should maintain a certain level of continuity that will allow the audience to follow along quite easily. 3. Hope it helps. -Hat

How to Do Stop Motion Videos on iPads The Popularity of Stop Motion Effects Stop motion movies date back to the early 20th century, but they have seen a resurgence of late with popular releases like Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, Coraline and Frankenweenie topping box offices around the world. So, how do they do that? The premise is simple. Planning All movies need a story. Some people like to script out what they will do for each scene, while others like to create storyboards that give a more visual idea of what will happen at each stage of your movie. Materials & Backgrounds As we saw in the Angry Birds video above, clay animation, or claymation, is a popular form of stop motion animation, but it is not the only option for budding film makers. Backgrounds can easily be fabricated out of cardboard, poster paper, or fabric, depending on your needs. Equipment You don't need a lot of equipment to film a small scale stop motion animation, but there are a couple of things you might want to consider as part of your studio setup.

Animation Tidbits Creating a Chinese Firewatch logoLove the logo? Buy the shirt here!I first considered a Chinese localized name for Firewatch when I gave a talk at GDC China 2015, and they had translated the session title as <看火人> (word for word, this is “Watch Fire Man”). I grew up in Hong Kong reading Chinese, and I thought the localized name was well chosen—because while it mostly suggests “fire lookout” (which doesn’t specifically imply “firefighting”), it also allows a more ominous interpretation of “person watching the fire burn.” So damn proud of how this logo turned out, and I owe so so much to Jane’s pointed direction and tutelage. …also I will never get over “looks slightly like a kid wrote it,” arguably the best critique I’ve ever gotten in my career 👌🏼

Well-formed data Line of Action - Mickey's Christmas Carol The line of action is a key ingredient to making your character’s poses look more dynamic. As shown in this post, the position and posture of the characters in the scene can greatly effect the staging and composition for any animated scene. In addition, it can help to place the characters within the situation, making them part of their environment and the story. Some ways to strengthen the pose (and overall composition) of the character is to create a nice silhouette, this is the overall shape of a pose. This shape should read clearly even if the pose were filled in black you would still be able to tell what the character is doing. The use of negative space and overlapping shapes for posing characters creates clear silhouettes, see the empty spaces between the arms and legs and major forms in these drawings: Another method is to create a strong line of action through your character. Here's some Preston Blair examples with Tom & Jerry: Here are the 2 poses we see and feel in the animation.

So you’re starting to think about animation… National Gallery of Australia Australian Council of Art and Design University Schools Association of Independent Schools NSW International Society Technology in Education (ISTE), USA iPadpalooza, USA 21st Century Learning International National Arts Education Association (NAEA), USA TAFE Queensland The Kellett School, Hong Kong Queensland Art Teachers Association Queensland University of Technology Apple Consultants Network Lutheran Education Australia Brisbane Catholic Education State Library Queensland EduTECH Teacher Training Australia Lady Gowrie Childhood Education Queensland Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane Griffith University