How Do You Plan a Great Fight Scene with Weapons?

Posted by Pradeep Mamgain in Monday, July 6th 2009

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Jul

That’s a tough question because it is so specific to the situation at hand. It depends on the characters, the fighting style, the animation style, and what weapons you’re given to work with. However, here’s some quick fight tips: 1) If there is any rule for planning a fight scene, it’s that the fight scene [...]

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Tips on Anticipation

Posted by Pradeep Mamgain in Thursday, July 2nd 2009

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Jul

silhouettes, it prepares the audience to what is about to happen in your scene. It gives them time to process your character’s actions and intentions, thereby making it absolutely clear what the character is doing or thinking. On another level, anticipation helps to emphasize the physicality of your character. Flesh and blood characters have muscles [...]

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55 Incredible Product Advertisements You Haven’t Seen

Posted by Pradeep Mamgain in Thursday, July 2nd 2009

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2
Jul

Advertisements are everywhere. On the back of cereal boxes, on the sides of busses, on billboards, in magazines, on TV, and, of course, the internet. It’s funny, most people spend a lot of energy trying to avoid advertisements, but in the world of graphic design, advertisements allow us to look at a specific product or [...]

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The Shape of Animation

Posted by Pradeep Mamgain in Thursday, July 2nd 2009

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2
Jul

Pixar Animation Studios once again redefines CG animated features with its 10th film, Disney/Pixar’s Up. A square. A circle. Two fundamental shapes in geometry, two iconic shapes in computer graphics. And, the simple basis for the visual style—the shape language—of Disney/Pixar’s 10th animated feature, Up, one of the most sophisticated ever in terms of story, [...]

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Of the 12 Principles of Animation, Which Is the Most Valuable? How Do You Apply It on the Job?

Posted by Pradeep Mamgain in Thursday, July 2nd 2009

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2
Jul

The truth is that you can’t single out any one principle as "the" most important. In the past, I’ve said that animation is kind of like golf. Have you ever tried to golf? Well, I’m not much of a golfer, but I’ve learned enough to know that there are dozens of important things to remember [...]

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Super cool video stabilization technology

Posted by Pradeep Mamgain in Thursday, July 2nd 2009

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Jul

Adobe researchers Hailin Jin and Aseem Agarwala*, collaborating with U.Wisconsin prof. Michael Gleicher & Feng Liu, have unveiled their work on "Content-Preserving Warps for 3D Video Stabilization." In other words, their tech can give your (and my) crappy hand-held footage the look of a Steadicam shot. a technique that transforms a video from a hand-held [...]

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