Animation is a Sport: Using Your Body as an Animation Tool

Posted by Bryan Provencher on February 10, 2010
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Throughout my time in school most of the animation methods presented to us were visual. This makes perfect sense (animation is a visual art, after all). But, it’s very easy to get lost in translating the visual to the visual and forget that animation at its core is a representation of the physical. (more…)

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Put a Little Dude on There.

Posted by Paul Culp">Paul Culp on February 10, 2010
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Not long ago I found my fourteen year old son Sam, hunched over his sketchbook (The big black leather-bound kind you get from Powells books in downtown Portland. Worth the twenty bucks.) tapping his pencil against a muddy, eraser-chewed page. The source of his frustration, barely visible through the lead smears and pink eraser bits was a kind of Boba Fett looking character with an oversized head holding a spear-like weapon. Sam, in this predicament was a mirror image of myself at fourteen. And eighteen. Twenty five. Thirty one. You get the picture. Our conversation went like so:

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