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VIEW POSTS BY “amid”November 18, 2008 8:14 am
Don’t let the title of this post scare you. We haven’t started stalking any animation artists (not yet at least). Thanks to Apartment Therapy, everybody can have a (legal) peek into the quintessentially midcentury LA home of Seonna Hong, who is currently the art director of Nick’s The Mighty B and has done background painting on My Life as a Teenage Robot, Powerpuff Girls and Teacher’s Pet, among other shows. November 18, 2008 2:41 am
Here is a message from Treat Studios co-founder Matt Layzell:
According to /film, Boyle had previously tried to create an animated project but gave up, telling the Hollywood Reporter: “You talk about indie financing being troublesome — animation is so expensive because you can’t estimate how long its going to take. On most films, if you haven’t stopped after 12 weeks, they’re going to stop you anyway, whereas an animated film can go on for years and years.” Also interesting is this comment from Boyle to ComingSoon.net in which he talks about how animation is a “weird different discipline” because it means he has to give up some of his control to the process: “It’s a weird different discipline, it’s very strange. You’re more like a ringmaster, kind of organizing this huge army of illustrators who can change the movie. It’s really weird. They often do scripts and they have no gags in them at all, but then you see the finished film and it’s full of funny gags, and they say that it’s not in the script, that all comes through the process of the animators. It’s like learning the skill of letting certain ones of them off their leash to do the gags.” (Thanks, Rohit Iyer) November 17, 2008 3:04 pm
Not enough people talk about animation budgets and salaries and I think that’s a shame. It’s hard to produce good work without knowing what it costs to make something. Brad Graeber, creator of Captain Capitalism, was faced with this situation recently and decided to actually do something about it. For the past year, he’s been researching animation budgets and has created this unbelievably useful interactive animation budget chart that shows animation budgets from the 1920s through today. The graph allows you to view production costs by minute, second, foot and frame. Brad writes a lot more about the project on his blog. Hopefully this spurs even greater discussion in the industry, especially about music video, commercial and Flash animation budgets, which seems to be where a lot of people underprice themselves nowadays. Brad has provided a super-valuable service for professionals and students alike and we should all thank him. November 17, 2008 6:36 am
I’m really digging the video for Autokratz’s “Stay the Same” directed by Laurie Thinot and animated by Gustavo Almenara. It’s an oddly entrancing mixture of infographics and illustration-like images set against a white background. The director Thinot recently signed on to Partizan Lab for commercial repping. More of Thinot’s work can be seen on her YouTube page. November 14, 2008 7:21 pm
Twenty-two years later, Luxo Jr. is no longer a kid, and he’s developed other interests that are a bit more mature than beach balls. The short is by Mark Grundy. (via Kottke) November 14, 2008 5:02 pm
This weekend, Picturebox, the publisher of the John K book I’m working on, is having a massive book and magazine sale at their place. I’ve browsed through the selection and there’s plenty of quality and rare stuff that’ll interest anybody into cartoons and illustration. It takes place on Saturday and Sunday, November 15 and 16, from 12-5pm. Available at affordable prices are hundreds of volumes about graphic design, illustration, fine art, graphic novels, imported manga, vintage children’s books, silkscreened books, prints, and tons of design and art magazines. Credit cards will be accepted. Picturebox is located at 121 3rd St. (corner of Bond) in Brooklyn. Take the F or G train to Carroll St., exit at Smith and 2nd place, and walk down 3rd St. to Bond. November 13, 2008 2:16 pm
Pixar’s Burn-E is the short that’s attached to the Wall-E DVD coming out next week. It’s directed by Angus MacLane. (via Kottke) November 13, 2008 1:06 pm
Disney’s Roadside Romeo has opened in India and it’s a huge hit. Let me repeat that: It’s a HUGE HIT. According to a Disney exec, “in its first four days it exceeded the entire Indian gross of The Incredibles.” This means only one thing. The population of India is clearly not ready yet for animated films. It’s understandable, I mean didn’t they just introduce automobiles into the country last year or something. So here’s my proposal: All animation should be immediately removed from the nation of India. I’ve written a letter outlining the plan.
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