Posts
SeptemberSep 25 Thursday 08
Vector Curves eh?
Wondered how the heck vector curves work? Here's a break down of the mechanics of vector graphics!
Vector graphics deal with a very different method of drawing and 'sculpting' line than raster graphics do. While understanding the math behind it all isn't essential, …
Hot Heroes
We dressed up as Super Heroes today.
As a university project, we are supervising and helping children put together animated films about super heroes. One part of the deal was that we dressed up as the super heroes they created. I'm Super Bird Man, and my sidekick is …
SeptemberSep 23 Tuesday 08
Tipsy film
Fine motor skills are the first to go when you are enjoying magical beer. It only takes a few drinks to start drawing in a different way to your head tells your arm to. Andy and I made this last night.
SeptemberSep 19 Friday 08
Something delicious
SeptemberSep 15 Monday 08
Fun flickr fix
Flickr finally fixed their boring homepage and plugged in some useful content! Now you can collapse and expand the thumb views, as well as see updates from the flickr blog on the homepage. You can even see comment replies without having to reload the silly 'recent …
SeptemberSep 13 Saturday 08
The Art of Critique.
While we as creative lads and lasses produce work to satisfy ourselves, the commercial game is a different story. When we create art freely, we can inject all of our thoughts and ideas, and make things feel right. However,
SeptemberSep 12 Friday 08
ExperiMENTAL.
Something very different this time. A piece for experimental 2d and alternative techniques class.
Really rough Stop motion paper cutouts and clay shot on glass.I'm such an arthole. Whales are jerks. Sentence fragment.
p.s. Stay tuned for a fantastically silly and …
SeptemberSep 11 Thursday 08
The new tribes
Bear Thief
p.s. Thanks for the ending idea Lis !
SeptemberSep 4 Thursday 08
I rasterbated
I rasterbated all over my bed and window. This is my fantastic1 lecturer's noggin' plastered to the outside of a window for the whole university to see. We've established that we are going to make this a competition to most …
AugustAug 29 Friday 08
Why do you blog?
Blogs. Everybody knows what they are. You can't go anywhere without finding one. What is a blog? I consider it a medium where you can use sentence fragments, poor punctuation and informal discourse to tell the anonymous public about anything you wish.
AugustAug 22 Friday 08
How NOT to design
I just don't get how people with fancy bachelor degrees and/or are employed at design firms are so terrible at design 1. It's not hard to see something and know it's pretty ugly. As blunt as it is, design has to be superficially constructed.
None of the metaphorical …
AugustAug 13 Wednesday 08
Anthony Lucas
I was lucky enough to meet Anthony Lucas; an Australian stop motion animator and director at university last week. He shared his film making process, showing how he developed and told story in animated cinema for such films as Slim Pickings, and Oscar nominated film -
AugustAug 10 Sunday 08
The internet needs
I wish the Internet was an invite only thing. So many people on it that shouldn't be allowed a finger on a mouse.
Oh the irony when his email address is indexed... it's indexed.
-- Start chat --
don-don-32@hotmail.com: just so you know, if you were wonering, …
AugustAug 8 Friday 08
Attractive Animators
AugustAug 5 Tuesday 08
Wanted
A film about an elite group of assassins. A "Fraternity". I don't really know where I stand with this one.
JulyJul 31 Thursday 08
Favourite feeds
I love feed readers! It's like making a magazine with all your favourite content ever for free! I love how much time it saves me having to hunt for interesting content and being up to date with your favourite sites is so convenient. Obviously Syndication is really old, …