GOOD BOOKS: "We Need To Talk About Alice" from Plenty on Vimeo. (See all the process, character design, style frames, at plenty.tv/work/good-books-we-need-to-talk-about-alice ) “We need to talk about Alice” was commissioned by New Zealand based agency String Theory and created to be part of Good Books’ “Great Writers Series,” a collection of short films made…
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Dark Disney: The Real Stories Behind Popular Disney Films
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Sunday Animation: Giant Robots from Outer Space
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Film – Children of Men: Don’t Ignore The Background
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Sunday Animation: Twelve Principles of Animation (Squash & Stretch, Anticipation)
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Alan Becker has a video series based on the twelve principles of animation of animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. These principles, and Becker’s series about them, show how much thinking goes into even simple animated films. Here are the first two principles, as Becker presents them – Squash & Stretch Anticipation
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Film: If The Cuckoo Don’t Crow
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Film: Vancouver Never Plays Itself
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Sunday Animation: Glen Keane Draws in Virtual Reality
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2015 Future of StoryTelling Summit Speaker: Glen Keane Animator, The Little Mermaid, Tarzan, Beauty and the Beast, and Duet Keane’s VR painting is created in Tiltbrush: www.tiltbrush.com Over nearly four decades at Disney, Glen Keane animated some the most compelling characters of our time: Ariel from The Little Mermaid, the titular beast in Beauty and…
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Film: The Trailer for Macbeth (2015)
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Sunday Animation: Tribute to Hayao Miyazaki
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Film: Wednesday, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Mr. Turner
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On Wednesday at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Mr. Turner @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Mr. Turner depicts the mature years of British painter J.M.W. Turner. The 2014 film received four Academy Award nominations, among nearly fifty major film nominations, and won at Cannes for Best Actor (Timothy Spall). Embedded above is the…