MARY
Mary Blair is hired to work in Walt Disney’s gigantic and rigorously maintained garden. As he welcomes her and invites her to get to work, she starts producing plants magically. Although he is amazed, Walt cannot refrain from correcting and toning down Mary’s work behind her back…
Contact production :
GOBELINS, l’école de l’image,
Moïra Marguin : mmarguin@gobelins.fr
RenderDigimania has a good article about the “10 Things No Animator Wants to Hear”
“I don’t have any concept art or storyboards yet, but a story outline will do, right?â€
No, it won’t. You wouldn’t ask a voice actor to do the gig without a script, so why ask somebody whose job it is to bring the images to life to do so without any bloody reference materials? We will just end up blindly firing out ideas, only to watch each one shot down, as we slowly and painfully try to find out what the hell you were actually looking for in the first place. Animators can do many things, but mind-reading isn’t one of them.
You can read the full article here.
Slate has a great interview up with both Dan and Swampy and if you loved the series like I do, you’ll enjoy this article.
As the final episode of Disney’s Phineas and Ferb airs this weekend I am proud to have been a small part of it and none of it would have been possible without Dan Povenmire and Swampy Marsh who were actually great bosses and did a fantastic job of bring the ‘funny’ out of everyone as we wrote and boarded the shows. I only worked on 7 of the episodes and did some revisions for the Phineas and Ferb Movie (which is how I got to be on the series full time) but everyone still let me feel like a part of the team which was a great feeling considering everyone else had two seasons under their belt. It also points to why it was so successful, because Dan and Swampy really were open to any sort of joke and they say as much in this interview.
From the site:
Povenmire: The reason we wanted to do several stories at once is Rocky & Bullwinkle, because that was what we grew up with. But they did it as an anthology, where they’d check in on one story and come back. The formula really came from Snuffleupagus onSesame Street, and how Big Bird had this big, furry, mastodon-type character that only he would see, and then he would, like, go to try to find other people to get them to bring them back and show them the Snuffleupagus, and then the Snuffleupagus would always …
You can read the entire article here.
Today’s 2D Wednesday is a delightful little piece by 4th year Sheridan animation student Melody Wang done primarily in Toonboom Harmony and Photoshop about two anthropomorphic cops chasing a stolen egg though a very clever bit of newspaper landscape.
I ask you… WHEN WILL SOMEONE MAKE A 2D Â FEATURE AGAIN!?!?!?
Film by Melody Wang
Score by Xintong Wang
Voice Talents
Elaine Wise as Constable Nips
Elliot Cowan as Porkington, the rat, and Mr. Goose
Kirsten Lloyd as Mrs. Goose
Mentors
Nancy Beiman
Bruno Degazio
Minions
Danial Darabi
Rui Hao
Jack Hincenbergs
Marissa Iavazzi
Ruby Xia
Xin Wu
Today’s 2D Wednesday is Yon Hui’s senior thesis film at Cal Arts… In the village of Dodoba, a toad must face trial over the murder of a frog.
