
Amelie and that bloke off the telly
Audrey Tautou (Amelie) and
Mackenzie Crook (Gareth Keenan)
Sometimes it helps to have a variety of facial expressions to study when you’re looking for that “just right” pose. There’s a website (of course!) called Leave Me The White that contains thousands of sequential stills from feature films and television series, which might help if you don’t get overwhelmed by the sheer number of pictures. There’s also a really useful interactive facial muscle emulator at Artnatomy

Jane Horrocks as Bubbles in Ab Fab
The wonderfully elastic face Jane Horrocks, looking a bit gobsmacked in Absolutely Fabulous
Interestingly, she is now the voice of Fairy Mary in Tinker Bell
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: film, resources
According to xtranormal.com, you can make a 3D movie in minutes. But it will look like this:

Awesomeness in 3 dimensions
It’s a simple 4 step process to make a 3D movie. No more tweaking hyper graphs! Forget those horrid MEL scripts! Throw away those pesky Blend shapes!
Here’s how it’s done: 1. Pick your scene. 2, Type a script. 3. Add actions and sounds. 4. Publish and share!

Move over, Pixar!
So, what are you waiting for? Start movie making today! Yay!!!
Categories: fun
Tagged: 3d, CGI
Getting things moving in CG is challenging enough, but how do you bring it all to a halt?
Just watch things stop in the next CG animation you see, and you’ll know it’s not right.
This might help you get started. It’s by the bloke who wrote Picasa (he was later snapped up by Google).
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Tagged: animation