Today's Guest Blogger is Brian Newlin- who happens to also be one of my very favorite people in the whole world. Need a laugh... go to Brian. This boy is also a super talented animator for Dreamworks (as is his incredibly awesome wife, Jen <- I did a post on her HERE.)
Onto Brian's guest post...
Oh, hello! I didn't see you there.
Ok, that's not really me, but it's how the internet makes me look.
My name is Brian, and my old friend (meaning I've known her for a long time, not implying that *she* is old) Cathy has asked me to contribute to her already wonderful blog. I'm not sure exactly why she would want me to do that, but I think I owe her money so I said "why not?"
I work in the animation industry, so most of my days are spent sitting at my desk, looking blearily at a computer monitor, waiting to be told by a director that I need to put 3 bananas in the shot with the rabbit, or to try and make someone getting kicked in the crotch look funnier. It's my dream job. But I do tend to have a lot of chances to discover new and weird things on the internet and here is where I will share them with you, whether you like it or not. I kid! You will like it. Please like it!
I just saw a couple new animated things this past week, and they are both amazing in different ways. First up is "Boxcar Fair" by Little Tybee. I can't say I'm a huge fan of the song, but the fact this entire video is done in ONE take, performed by the team of puppeteers truly blows my mind. I've done a couple very small projects with puppetry, but I can't even begin to imagine the work and skill in putting this video together.
Little Tybee - "Boxcar Fair"
Little Tybee - "Boxcar Fair" from Little Tybee on Vimeo.
In the feature film world, I'm very excited to see the next stop motion film brought to us by Laika Studios up in Portland, the same studio that gave us the awesome-but-underrated "Coraline" in 2009. Again, as someone who deals only in computer animation, I'm fascinated by these kinds of projects where the artist can actually feel and touch the characters they are working with. And I'm a huge sucker for stories about zombies and ghosts, so this one looks great to me.
So that's it for this week! Until next time!
"Always onwards, ever upwards and forever twirling, twirling, twirling."
-Brian
TweetOh, hello! I didn't see you there.
Ok, that's not really me, but it's how the internet makes me look.
My name is Brian, and my old friend (meaning I've known her for a long time, not implying that *she* is old) Cathy has asked me to contribute to her already wonderful blog. I'm not sure exactly why she would want me to do that, but I think I owe her money so I said "why not?"
I work in the animation industry, so most of my days are spent sitting at my desk, looking blearily at a computer monitor, waiting to be told by a director that I need to put 3 bananas in the shot with the rabbit, or to try and make someone getting kicked in the crotch look funnier. It's my dream job. But I do tend to have a lot of chances to discover new and weird things on the internet and here is where I will share them with you, whether you like it or not. I kid! You will like it. Please like it!
I just saw a couple new animated things this past week, and they are both amazing in different ways. First up is "Boxcar Fair" by Little Tybee. I can't say I'm a huge fan of the song, but the fact this entire video is done in ONE take, performed by the team of puppeteers truly blows my mind. I've done a couple very small projects with puppetry, but I can't even begin to imagine the work and skill in putting this video together.
Little Tybee - "Boxcar Fair"
Little Tybee - "Boxcar Fair" from Little Tybee on Vimeo.
In the feature film world, I'm very excited to see the next stop motion film brought to us by Laika Studios up in Portland, the same studio that gave us the awesome-but-underrated "Coraline" in 2009. Again, as someone who deals only in computer animation, I'm fascinated by these kinds of projects where the artist can actually feel and touch the characters they are working with. And I'm a huge sucker for stories about zombies and ghosts, so this one looks great to me.
So that's it for this week! Until next time!
"Always onwards, ever upwards and forever twirling, twirling, twirling."
-Brian
