Ravensbourne Animation Hub

Entries from April 2009

Live Action Reference for Facial Expressions

April 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Amelie and that bloke off the telly

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

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: ,

If You Can Type, You Can Make Movies

April 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

According to xtranormal.com, you can make a 3D movie in minutes. But it will look like this:

Awesomeness in 3 dimensions

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!

Move over, Pixar!


So, what are you waiting for? Start movie making today! Yay!!!

Categories: fun
Tagged: ,

How to Make Things Stop

April 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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).

Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged:

  • Blogroll

  • 2008-9 Digital Environments
  • Articles & Texticles
  • Blog Stats

  • Meta

  • Pages

  •  

    April 2009
    M T W T F S S
    « Mar   May »
     12345
    6789101112
    13141516171819
    20212223242526
    27282930  
  • Archives