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News: Flintstones storyboards with layouts

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Years ago when I was working at Hanna Barbera working on my What-A-Cartoon shorts, I paid a visit to the archives there. It was filled with all the artwork from every show Bill and Joe had done over the years. It was truly an animated wonderland. Original pencil drawings on paper. I was in awe!

In those days, you were actually allowed to check the artwork out like books at a library, something you can not do at the Disney or Warner Bros archives. I borrowed a Flintstones storyboard because they were always my favorite and pored over it amazed at how well it was drawn and the simplicity of the shots. There was even some cut out scenes that I guess were deleted for time. To my amazement there was some layouts stuff in-between the board as well and it was like truly meeting celebrities because those were the real drawings, the breath and sweat and lifeblood poured into them. I managed to xerox a copy of them but never borrowed another one. I really should have because it’s a true piece of history. Anyway, without further adieu I give you orignal scans of the storyboard for Episode 72; Fred Strikes Out, written by Joanna Lee. I don’t know who boarded it but IMDB says Don Jurwich and Lin Larsen did layout so it might have been one of them.

 

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News: Hitchcock Storyboards from 13 Classic Films

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Storyboarding is an essential part of film making ,both live action and animated especially these days with so many visual effects. It all has to be planned out to perfectly to minimize the shot list and the budget and it’s not an easy thing to do. I can’t even imagine something like this chase sequence from Tin Tin not being storyboarded first. Well, storyboards as  you probably know have been around a long time and Walt Disney himself is said to have been one of the first to implement them into his workflow. Likewise, Alfred Hitchock was said to have used them extensively on his films. Check out this great article about Hitchcock and the storyboarding of his films. 

http://filmmakeriq.com/2010/11/hitchcocks-storyboards-from-13-classic-films/

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Jobs: Disney Toon seeks Art Director

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Disney Toon is seeking to hire an Art director for their shorts program!

You can learn more here! It seems like it’s not so easy to actually FIND the job on their convoluted careers site but it’s there, maybe you can find it yourself somehow.

Also here is the requirements for the job from Disney’s site. I have no more info about this job and have nothing to do with Disney themselves. Good luck!

 

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News: Anton Bogaty’s “Belly String”

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Anton Bogaty has a great way with the medium of film. He is able to get a story out there quickly and effectively with minimal movement and style. He also loves face melting and you can’t really get enough of that! 🙂

Check out this film below to see what I mean!

Here’s another one! He truly makes it seem effortless.

And here’s a really well done one too. I like how his films are so dark yet have a Mary Blair sort of whimsy.

And here’s my favorite he did called Summer Heist. It tells a nice little story and does it well. Again minimal movement.

We did an interview with Anton back in January, and a quick look to his blog shows he’s been busy! Never mind his website! The man is a MACHINE! Finally, check out some of his art. Check it out, you won’t be disappointed.

I am in awe.

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News: Metegol teaser trailer

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Argentinian director Juan José Campanella is probably best known for shows  like Strangers With Candy, House, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit until in 2009 his film The Secret In Their Eyes, premiered and went on to win a Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Though he’s continued working in television since then, this year he’s actually releasing an animated film called Metegol, which is nothing you’d expect from him considering his other credits. This film actually looks like it could be cool. I hope they make it with subtitles.

Metegol opens in Argentina on June 20th. Releases will follow in Russia and Brazil. At this time, the film has no release date scheduled for the U.S.

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News: Neil Gaiman’s “The Price” Animatic

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Here’s a fantastic (and creepy) view of an animatic done in 2006 by Christopher Salmon for a 3d film called The Gift written by Neil Gaiman which he did to convince the author to give him the rights to make a film adaptation of The Price. It was apparently a success and was crowd funded through Kickstarter in 2010! There was some beautiful art done for the animatic as it’s all in painted and in color so to say it’s an ‘animatic’ is a bit of an understatement, because it reads sort of like a visual storybook, pretty much working all by itself without being animated.

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Here’s an example of what the film will eventually look like.

Towards the end there’s a really nice 3d bit with a demon that’s impressive. Especially the colors and I really like the contrast between the blues and oranges. Apparently Christopher has had some trouble of late with rigging the character models which he details in this ‘making of’ video so we know the film is well on it’s way to being made. Anyway, I for one will be looking forward to seeing this film finished and my hats off to Christopher for taking on this Herculean effort.

You can read more here:

http://www.theprice-movie.com/production-blog/