How To Succeed In Animation Industry.
Having a dream job and a great career in a creative industry is a dream to many. Working in the animation industry is not only fun but also gives the opportunity to scale your career and telling your kids stories that you worked on this movie project etc. But, Do you also know what it […]
How Animation is Making the World a Better Place
How Animation Is Making The World A Better Place A few decades back, we used to live in a very different era, no mobile phones, no computers or high tech gadgets. At that time, no one would have thought what the entertainment industry would provide to people from all over the world in the upcoming […]
The Illusion of Life and Acting
In an interesting Slate.com article (“How Does a Pixar Film Get Made”, March 18, 2015), long-time Pixar layout artist Craig Good provides the studio’s definition of animation like this: Bringing a character to life is an essential first step for performance animation, but Pixar’s definition of animation does not come close to describing how acting […]
Anatomy For Animators 01 – The Human Skeleton and Muscles
Most of us are taught anatomy in at least one class in school (mostly before the frog dissection). Out comes the plastic skeleton on his rickety little trolley base, grinning from ear to ear. But we never really truly remember (or use) the information. We never understand the true nature of basic human anatomy when we sit down to animate. Animators tend […]
Anatomy For Animators 02 – Anatomical Movement
The body is interesting, even in a resting state, as the body doesn’t ever truly stop. There are always subtle movements: shifts of weight, breathing, the unconscious balancing act, conscious feedback of where our limbs are at any given moment, blinking, and thought. What about movement and locomotion? In order to move, the body has to go from a rested […]
The Making of Cursed – Animation Workflow Tutorial
Hello there, my name is Juba Polati and I am the animator who created “Cursed” – that short film where a bunch of stuff happens in Maya, yes the one with the T-Rex. If by any chance you haven’t seen it, I would love for you to watch it, it will make things a lot […]