I finally got the time to put this great interview up. Sorry it took so long. It will be uploaded to itunes soon and images will be added soon. Its still a bit rough but I wanted to get it on the site for the long weekend. Enjoy
-Andrew
I just wanted to let everyone know that I am planning on doing a few splinecasts with UP director Pete Docter, co director Bob Peterson and Production Designer Ricky Nierva. I hope to get them recorded, edited and on the site within a month. Please post your questions and I will pick some good ones for the interview.
-Andrew
I was lucky enough to attend the Cal Arts producers show this year. For those of you who don’t know the school it is one of the premier animation schools in the country. Pixar has many of its directors, animators and story artsits come from the school. Every year all the studios come out to see the show and recruit new talent. I am impressed by the films coming out of the school but not so much by the animation. In talking to many of the students, I felt they wanted to do story or art. Not many were interested in Character Animation. Maybe because its done mostly on computer and they want to draw, which I can understand. I hope some of the students can focus more on animating though. The industry is hungry for talented animators and alot of the animation talent is coming from other schools that focus a bit more on character work. I still think Calarts is one of the best animation schools. Here are some links to some of the students films from this year. Great work… Next year, more character animation!
Nelson Boles
Noel Belknap 4th year
Sabrina Cotugno 1st year
Elle Michalka 1st year
Jeff Liu 2nd year
David Ochs 1st year
Shion Takeuchi 3rd year
Dylan Forman 2nd year
Tahnee Ghem 1st year
Marcos Cohen 1st year
Andres Salaff 4th year
Sharing by Kris Anka
The Terror from Mars by Daron Nefracy
Leonardo’s Chase by Carlos Romero
If anyone has more links to calarts films please post them in the comments section or email me.
-Gordon
As the semester comes to a close, what are you going to do? There are alot of Summer Animation classes going on. Here are a few notable ones….
http://www.csssa.org/main.php?page=studies&sub_page=animation
http://www.csusummerarts.org/courses2009/animation.shtml
http://www.gobelins.fr/~summerschool/en/informations.php
please leave links to other summer programs in the comments section.
Sorry the site has been a bit slow lately. I hope to interview some more artists for Spline Casts soon. It will happen in the next couple of weeks. On a side note, some folks wanted to know when and if any classes will be going on this summer. There is a class coming up in Montreal Quebec with myself and Veteran Story Artist, Matt Luhn. We are doing a two day intensive on Story and Animation on June 13th and 14th. Matt and I have been talking about doing something like this for a while. Montreal is certainly a great place to have an animation class. I know the tuition may seem steep but it costs a lot to put these on and the information is well worth it. A portion of any proceeds will go to charity. Here is a link for more info.
-Andrew
