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From The Art of Animal Drawing by Ken Hultgren

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Tuesday Tips - TEETH! Always a good tool to have in your “drawing arsenal”. In general, less in more. The less you pay attention to the individual teeth, the better. But, sometimes, a certain character or situation will call upon your knowledge of the pearly whites. -Norm

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"Oggy and the Cockroaches - French Fries" (1998)

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It was over a year ago when I made this pose of Elsa for our publicity department. I remember spending a little more time on this pose to make sure she looked good from every angle in hope that one day it would be used for a possible maquette, and not only for a publicity image.

After Frozen wrapped, I was thrilled when the production decided, like previous productions, they would be making maquettes of the characters available for studio employees, however there was a request to use a different Elsa publicity pose I had done based on the amazing Brittney Lee’s demure Elsa painting, because it was a better fit with the complete line up of characters.

A little bummed but still excited we were making maquettes, I cleaned up the requested demure Elsa pose, making sure it too looked good in all angles.

Even though I love the demure pose, on the day we reviewed all the character maquette poses, I made a plea that we use the dynamic Elsa pose. I showed a turntable of the CG model and pointed out that it would still work as a maquette even though she was standing on one leg because we could use her cape as support, and and and… because it would be awesome!!!

Thankfully Mike Giamo, the art director on Frozen, was in the room and loved the dynamic pose with long cape as well. I’ll never forget his response to not making the dynamic pose… “Can’t we make both?”

And that is how on Frozen, there are two Elsa maquettes!

Because the dynamic pose was outside of the standard set, we were able to work with Gentle Giant a little longer on iterations to refine it. The guys at Gentle Giant were great to work with and did a stellar job building the maquette.

Yesterday, the finished artist proof arrived, and I couldn’t be happier.

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jane porter + character traits

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Stop motion experiment 3.

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4 lessons in creativity

Radio host Julie Burstein talks with creative people for a living -- and shares four lessons about how to create in the face of challenge, self-doubt and loss. Hear insights from filmmaker Mira Nair, writer Richard Ford, sculptor Richard Serra and photographer Joel Meyerowitz.

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So I wrote and animated this tutorial for people working on my short film Bothered, but I figured it would be useful for all animators, particularly beginners. I borrowed some of these concepts from this awesome packet done by Jon Hooper and Michel Gagne, which is also pretty great!

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iAnimate Instructor Spotlight - Stephen Melagrano

Interview with iAnimate Feature animation instructor Stephen Melagrano during the mini-pixel presentation event in Quebec city (Canada). For more information…

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iAnimate Instructor Spotlight - Frederick Gaudreau

Interview with iAnimate Lighting instructor Frederick Gaudreau For more information about our Creature animation workshop: http://www.ianimate.net/surface-lighting.html Follow…

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iAnimate Lab - No36 - Jalil Sadool

Excerpted from the weekly iAnimate lectures, iAnimate Creature Guest Speaker Jalil Sadool explains his learning process on 'Avatar' and shows how he applied his…

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Just in case you need a good pick-me-Up.

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Selected images from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne. Published by the Folio Society. You can buy it here.

One of the best part of being an illustrator, in my humble opinion, is reading books that you might not have otherwise. Given the modern-day representations, I think I was expecting some sort of pulpy adventure story (quite an anachronistic notion, given the book was written in 1869). In reality, it’s a scientific travelogue: very thoroughly observed and researched. There are also some very beautiful descriptions of foreign lands that, when you think about it, are no closer to most of us now than they were in 1869.

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Other Folio Society books I have illustrated:

Goblin Market and Selected Poems - Christina Rosetti

Irish Myths and Legends - Lady Gregory

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Cartoon Network’s Tales of Metropolis

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via Deja View

Milt Kahl gave the final look to all deer characters, including adolescent Bambi. He ended up animating most of his personality scenes, including the section where Bambi meets Feline as an adult. As usual, the anatomy in his drawings feels rock solid while offering possibilities for unrealistic, even cartoony animation. Milt’s animation of Bambi following Feline through the clouds has nothing to do with realistic deer motion, but it interprets instead the dreamlike state of falling in love.