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Daphne Hong

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Daphne Hong – I’m currently Animator and illustrator in Paris. I work for animation features, TV series, video games and edition.

 

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Nothing crazy, I always had jobs in the artistic industries.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
To be proud is not the right word, but I have for of all my projects a special feeling because I learned a lot each time and my dream to be a part of animation industry became more and more true. My most personnal work is a book I illustrated, which was released in March 2012. Being a author is also very rewarding.

 

How did you become interested in animation?
It started with children’s books, TV series and animation features. I drew very early in my childhood and did it everywhere on anything (for example, the walls of my parents apartment), I loved to draw princes and princesses, fairy tales impressed me very much. I also liked make Continue reading

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“The Old New World” by Alexey Zakharov

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“The Old New World” is an amazingly detailed photo-based animation project that brings alive turn of the century photos by photographer and animator Alexey Zakharov of Moscow, Russia. Zakharov found old photos of US cities from the early 1900s and brought them to life.

There are clearly some issues with the added animation such as at 1:47 where the man isn’t even holding the box in his hands. not sure how that got though but nevertheless if you don’t scrutinize too hand it’s a pretty cool little project!
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It’s a travel back in time with a little steampunk time machine.
The main part of this video was made with Camera projection based on photos.
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Source photos by shorpy.com
Music: Al Bowlly – “Guilty”
Still frames and illustrations: behance.net/gallery/35310703/The-Old-New-World-Photo-based-animation-project

 

The photos show New York, Boston, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore between 1900 and 1940, and were obtained from the website Shorpy.

It’s a “photo-based animation project” that offers a “travel back in time with a little steampunk time machine,” Zakharov says. “The main part of this video was made with camera projection based on photos.”

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KIERON SEAMONS

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What is your name and your current occupation?

Kieron Seamons.  My first paid job was actually illustrating a book for my old Head Master of my school. It was all a great learning experience, as I was only about 16 years old. I thought I had hit the big time, a star in the making………then I left school, and dug foundations for house extensions. Digging holes for six months sure brought me down to Earth.  After that, I was determined to stay in animation and I have now been in animation since I was around 17 or 18………very lucky indeed.  My current occupation is that I am the proud owner of Sandman Animation Studio. We work on many of the TV shows that you watch on TV today and have produced many award winning shows and cartoon classics over the past years. I have the best job in the world.


What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
‘Roger Rabbit’ was an amazing project to be a part of. I rememeber going into a small viewing room and being shown a ‘trailer’ for it, in the very early stages of the movie. I walked out dizzy, it was just amazing. It insipred me and pushed me to be the best I could be for the Disney company. I was there 3 years, ……loved it.  I worked on many great Animated Features and TV shows after that, including American Tail, Dennis and Gnasher’, ‘Cramp Twins’ and ‘Horrid Henry’ but one of my favorites was a show called ‘Treasure’ by Cinar ( now Cookie Jar ) a fantastic show, with one of the funniest scripts I have read. I used to listen to the audio tapes like it was a radio show. Fantastic! For some reason that show has vanished off the face of the Earth…….I don’t know what happened to it. Great show ! I sure would love to see one of those episodes again…..anyone?  ‘When the Wind Blows’ was a movie that I worked on many years ago. It was created from the wonderful books of Raymond Briggs. It is a real tear jerker, but such a wonderful movie.  These days I am driven by my new show ‘Little China’, it is my first step in to CGI animation and it has been a wonderful experience and the results have inspired the studio to become the best that we can be. We have won our first award ‘ The Crystal Star’ for best animation and it has been featured on the cover of ‘Teddy Bear International ‘ magazine as well as many magazine features. A very exciting time.  Too many shows to mention, more below



How did you become interested in animation?
I remember as a kid being told by my Father that animation was a series of still images. I didn’t believe a word of it, but when he handed me a roll of movie film and I could actually see all the still images………….I was hooked, totally addicted.  I drove everyone crazy. I ran around with my super 8 camera, moving cups, toys and my Sister inch by inch as I pushed the single frame button. I would wait a week for it to be developed and watch the results. I was addicted ! My poor sister is
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Ana Maria Alvarado

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Ana Maria Alvarado, Character Animator.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
In 1985 I got my first paying job was as an interpreter and guide for an American Journalist in Nicaragua (I grew up in Nicaragua). I was 15, and I made enough money to buy my own radio/boombox after a month of work. I basically just went around Managua with this journalist, helped him navigate the unnamed streets and helped him with his interviews. At one point he asked my parents if I could go north (to the war zone) with him. They gave him a resounding no, but when he returned he asked me to interpret a series of recordings of another American he met in a village up north whom he believed to be a CIA operative. The tapes revealed nothing.  I also worked at Burger King in Stockholm, for 4 days.
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I loved working on Stuart Little 2 and Open Season, at Sony Imageworks. The bar for the animation was really high, and I learned so much from other animators.  Recently I also had the privilege to work on Scorcese’s Hugo at Pixomondo. It was a wonderfully collaborative process, and ideas for the animation of the flying paper sequence came from the ground up.

How did you become interested in animation?
I’ve always be interested in visual arts and storytelling.  I was studying film in Prague (back when it was still Czechoslovakia). A one of my classmates and I were looking at some Preston Blair drawings someone had left behind in a classroom. My friend casually commented that I could probably draw like that. I didn’t think I could. While in Prague we tinkered with Continue reading

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Why this Scene Looks so Amazing

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Andreas Deja has an interesting post up about the animation process behind the scene above from Lady and the Tramp which while it was animated by Frank Thomas, both Milt Kahl and Iwao Takamoto went over the scene for ultimate drawing appeal. Iwao Takamoto if you remember was a very large part of Hanna Barbera’s style.

You can read the entire article here.

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‘Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked’ washes ashore on Steam

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Engadget is reporting that Don’t Starve Shipwrecked is finally out of Early Access on Steam and ready for your consumption.  Some good 2d animation here from the looks of the trailer and it’s got a rough pencil test sort of feel to boot judging from the trailer above.
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Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked, the nautical themed expansion for one of our favorite survival games If you’ll remember, this add-on is the result of a partnership between original developer Klei Entertainment and the folks behind Below and Super Time Force, Capybara Games. The single-player expansion (the co-op focused Don’t Starve Together released last year) introduces plenty of new deadly goodies like sailing, seasons and crafting recipes — all incredibly likely to put your ability to follow the game’s name to the test. As an incentive to give it the old college try, Steam has the game on sale for $4.50 during its launch period.