i love wikipedia more than you do:

Wikipedia – List of Animated Feature Films

also check the bottom of the list for more categories, and hey if you know one that isn’t on the list, or is in red, add to it, that is how wikipedia works, or how it should work.

The Sandopus Project from Andrew Hake.

warm up project for Senior Year at KCAI. my first return to backlit sand animation since Sophomore year. There are many things I would like to tidy up, as well as a few more layers I would like to add, but it was a fantastic project. Spent right around 24 hours for this one once I started animating.

This version is at 24 frames per second so there are a few oddities, some jittering and things, but I kind of like it, it maybe works a little better at 12fps though as most stop motion does, so I may upload that one as well.

This was also my first test with Dragon Stop Motion, a fantastic bit of software developed by Jamie and Dyami Caliri. Jamie is probably most well-known for his United Airlines paper cut-out stop motion commercials. This is without a doubt the best stop motion software out there, I highly recommend everyone check it out. I am planning on testing it as a pencil test system very soon as well.

The music is “Snow Tip Cap Mountain” by The Octopus Project, from their album, Hello Avalanche:

[ITUNES]

You may see more of this one in the future…

this is just a taste of what is actually available, muahahaha!

just an overview of a few bits and pieces of my film. I went through so much pain to render this ridiculous video, but after 5 hilarious After Effects crashes, and one Compressor re compression later, here it is.

Cartoons Without Computers? Silly Animators! – NY Times

nice to see that others drive themselves absolute mad with this stuff as well.

another animatic for the floating world, includes everything except for a little bit at the end that I will keep to myself for now.

now I can finally move to the really fun stuff, modeling, animation, 2d and 3d, rigging, rendering, layout, compositing, sound, music, editing… making animated films is easy right?

comment!

I think I finally have all the firepower I need to get my main character up and running, modeling, rigging, and animation knowledge that is. My big worry was rigging, but I finally managed to collect all the info I think I will need to not be so fearful of it.

look for a very interesting and very moving robot that doesn’t know any better…

this is only the beginning folks, here is a quick leg rig test setup, don’t mind the simple geometry, of course it will be much crazier than that:

floating world – robotsy – leg rig test

and don’t forget to check this out in HD in full screen if you really want to know what is going on…naw mein?

mad beats by Louis Armstrong.