2011 Teaching

I wanted to give an update of where you might be able to find Pixar animators, directors and story artists teaching….

At The California College of Art in Oakland, they are lucky enough to have a director, Mark Andrews teaching the story class. Whoever is in that class should consider themselves lucky having Mark. He is one of the best teachers. I will be coming back next semester to teach performance based animation. There are many other Pixar artists at CCA such as Brett Parker (animator) Don Crum (2d animator) Doug Sheppick (stop mo animator). Josh Cooley (story) was recently teaching story.

The Academy of Art in San Francisco, where myself and many former spline doctors taught saw the return of the same type of classes we taught there for about 10 years. Some of my former students, KC Royer, Kevin Chesnos, Stephen Wong, and Mark Harris are now teaching 3 tiers of classes there. Other animators teaching in the program are Terry Song and Jamie Landes.

Animation Mentor obviously has many Pixar artists teaching with their very succesful program.

On the Masterclass front, Matt Luhn and I expect to teach a few next year. We will keep you posted. Thank you for the continued support and we look forward to some interesting events on Spline Doctors in 2011. (new doctors, podcasts, 2 new animation challenges and more posts!) Again, thank you.

Andrew

Great Acting Reference

A fellow animator sent this out and its just too good not to share.

It is 14 actors creating 14 different moments. There is so much great stuff in here to look at. As someone who is looking at it from an animators perspective, you can, at the very least, understand how a performance can be so clear without dialogue. What is that character feeling. What is interesting about the scene? All the same things we ask ourselves about our own work. Please post more great examples in the comments section…

-Andrew

Fourteen Actors Acting

Lee Unkrich Interview

Terry Gross recently interviewed Lee Unkrich and Michael Arndt for fresh air. Why wait for me to interview them?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130646919

Great Gesture Site!

I stumbled across this site when I was looking for examples of gestures. We use gestures everytime we animate a shot. What is great about this site is that he is really looking for different types of things that people do everyday and telling you why they are doing it. Its a gold mine for animators. Another resource that has been talked about on this site, but is a bit dated is the book Manwatching. Desmond Morris is the king of human behavior study. As animators, we really do need to be aware of everything going on around us. This site is a good resource for that such thing.

http://www.spyingforlying.com/

TS3 Roundtable Part 2

PART 2

Finally… Sorry it took so long… The summer has been busy… I am currently teaching the 2010 animation interns and they are lots of work… Hopefully I will get back in the game of making some new podcasts. I am going to be doing one with Lee Unkrich, director of Toy Story 3.

Some other cool stuff that has been going on…. There is a cool class that myself and Matt Luhn are teaching in Vancouver on September 24th and 25th.

Also in the current issue of 3d World I did a little article on Walks. Hopefully I will be able to post all the info on the site with permission from the Mag. Stay tuned for that. Thanks for still following the site. I’m trying to keep it alive…

Download the short podcast here ts3roundtable_part2

-Andrew