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12 Principles of Animation Film Making

December 20th, 2011

Attraction

Human actors have the charisma, character animation has appeal. Animation of interest does not mean the character is sweet and funny. All characters have a special attraction meiiliki either heroic, evil, comic or humorous. Appeal also included a design that is easy to understand, clear images, the formation of character that will attract the attention of the audience.

Solid Drawing

The basic principles of drawing form, weight, volume solidity and how the illusion is formed by all three should be put to animation as applied to other types of images.

Exaggeration (excesses)

Exaggeration is like pengkarikaturan facial expressions, expressions, poses, attitudes and actions. The action was seen on a real film accurately but will probably look stiff when applied to the animated film. In an animated film, a character must move more broadly to look natural, as well as facial expressions. » Read more: 12 Principles of Animation Film Making

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Pixar Animation Demo Reel

December 13th, 2011

Here are excerpts from the EXPERT on how to make job applications that include animation demoreel:

For first-timers putting together a reel, following are some helpful guidelines from one of Pixar’s former interns, who joined our ranks as an employee:

1) An application that requires a demo reel submission has 5 parts:

a) the cover letter
b) the resume
c) the demo reel
d) the demo reel breakdown
e) the on-line application (the application contains the Reel Submission Agreement)

The cover letter can (and should) be brief. The resume should tell us where you’ve worked, what you did when you worked, what kind of coursework you’ve had, and what tools, languages, and systems you can use. The demo reel breakdown is really essential (see #7, below). Don’t force us to look at a website – when we’re looking at reels, we’re all greased and ready to go with reels, not websites. (We will look at websites if we’re hiring you as a web designer.) » Read more: Pixar Animation Demo Reel

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10 Most Frightening Horror Films

December 2nd, 2011

It is fast approaching that unique portion of the year when all true matters arcane and diabolical are given the festive treatment, as Halloween prompts folks to deploy their broomsticks for something other than sweeping up after the household pet. Although we have recently seen cinematic quotas of the supernatural gobbled up by vampire and zombie flicks, it would be remiss to overlook the genuine chills instilled by the most successful exponents of the ghost movie genre. So here are ten of the scariest ghost movies to put the frighteners on us poor, trembling cinema-goers.

10. Dark Water (2002)

Leaky plumbing becomes an unlikely source of spine-tingling terror in this J-Horror offering from director Hideo Nakata, the man who had previously attached creepy connotations onto video cassettes and cold-calling in the first two Ringu films. Sharing some narrative ground with his earlier horror hits, Dark Water finds Nakata once again casting a supernatural child as his primary wellspring of unsettlement, as the spirit of Mitsuko (Mirei Oguchi) seeks some redress for her premature demise. The red of Mitsuko’s lost bag and the prevalence of water in the movie both establish a link to Nicholas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, and the blend served up on this occasion by Nakata was beguiling enough to inspire Hollywood to deliver an unexceptional 2005 remake starring Jennifer Connolly. » Read more: 10 Most Frightening Horror Films

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