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Greg Whittaker

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Greg Whittaker- Character Animator at Dreamworks Animation.
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Suit Salesman, Assistant in secret experiments involving the production of a bigger, stronger breed of corn (for real!)
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
Most recently, the Croods. Past favorites include How to Train your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda 2.
Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
I’m from a small town by the name of St. Marys in Ontario, Canada. Sheridan College was not far from my home and I enrolled in the three year Traditional Animation course there. After graduation I worked briefly in Toronto. By day I worked as a designer on “Eek the Cat”. At night I Continue reading

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9/11 animated tribute- Always a Family

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On September 11th, 2001, Michael Trinidad called Monique Ferrer from the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower to say one last goodbye. The Rauch Brothers animated an interview with his wife.
http://rauchbrothers.com
http://storycorps.org

Directed by: The Rauch Brothers
Art Direction: Bill Wray
Producers: Lizzie Jacobs & Mike Rauch
Animation: Tim Rauch & Erica Perez
Audio Produced by: Michael Garofalo
Music: Fredrik
Label: The Kora Records
Publisher: House of Hassle

Funding provided by:
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The Carnegie Corporation of New York
National Endowment for the Arts

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News: Autodesk Announces CAVE

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Autodesk announced its first ever digital design conference, which will take place in Las Vegas December 1-3, 2013. Autodesk CAVE will bring together a spectrum of artists, designers and storytellers to explore and celebrate the fundamental spirit that traverses these creative domains and disciplines.

CAVE logoMore than a creativity conference, CAVE will deliver a full day of keynote speeches, seminars and networking sessions from world renown artists and designers sharing their methods and sources of creativity. With speakers ranging from Syd Mead to Neil Gaiman and John Cleese, this is not an event to miss.

The primary conference is $399 with an early bird offering when registration opens that will be $299. There are also two optional days called CAVE Plus that go deeper with master classes that focus on expert techniques with products & processes.

 

Website: http://www.autodeskcave.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CAVEConference

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/autodeskcave

 

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Kishore Vijay

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Kishore Vijay and currently I am a Senior Animator on Cinematics for Carbine studios working on trailers for their upcoming MMO Wildstar.
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Lets see, I was an Architect and practiced for a year in India before I came to the US to study Animation. I also did a stint as a waiter at a Moroccan Restaurant. Both crazy jobs in their own way!
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
Cinematics for games has been a lot of fun – both with Carbines”Wildstar” and with Blizzards STARCRAFT 2 – Heart of the swarm”. Before that it was great to be part of the team at Sony Imageworks on their features. With the smaller studios its great to get more influence and involvement with the projects and with the bigger shows its great to get your name on a major project and be part of a fantastic team.
Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
I am from a small state in South India called Kerala. Like many kids, I grew up watching Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes and Disney animation and reading and drawing comics. Later I Continue reading

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Greg Araya

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What is your name and your current occupation?

My name is Greg Araya, I am currently a story artist for Cartoon Network’s “MAD” at Warner Bros. Animation.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Right out of college, I worked for a while at a scenic painting studio in Chicago. The owner low-balled all the bids and would send a crew of underpaid twenty somethings with a van full of paint to do the jobs. We had no supervision. We did some truly awful work. Also, I crashed the van.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
Aside from the aforementioned disaster? I’ll always regard Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends as a special show. It was a great crew. So many talented people. We had a lot of fun. And I’m proud of the fact that it was one of the few shows made entirely at the Burbank studio from start to finish. The studio or the union never really touted that, but I think it makes a difference.

How did you become interested in animation?

I was one of those kids that was always drawing or trying to make my own toys, attempting impossibly ambitious projects like wanting to build a robot or a hovercraft. Making movies was one of those projects that was somewhat attainable, since my dad had Continue reading

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Promote Yourself: Luis Cadavid, RIDE WITH ME

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RIDE WITH ME narrates that race that we all have been through many times in life.  Roads that are steep, narrow, and full of OBSTACLES.  The goal begins with our dreams, the biggest CHALLENGE lays in our HEARTS.  In a way, Henri represents our goal in attempting to create this short film. We have been working on this short film for 5 years.  It started as an idea for a reel and gradually developed into this beautiful story and art.  It has become our passion, working on it on our free time and weekends, at odd hours of the night.
Ride With Me is the story of Henri, a small ten year old boy who lives with his grandmother, crazy grandfather, and twin siblings. His grandfather is in a wheelchair and rolls around the house thinking he is at war and shoots at the enemy with toy guns.  In an attempt to help his family, Henri partakes in the most challenging race, Le Tour De France!  As always, there is a daring antagonist who will be bigger and faster than our underdog, in this story, it is Jacques.  He is the rich boy in town who doesn’t need to win the race, but he will be the boy to beat.