I am going to try to use this as a path to submit my stuff and send it to ASSIFA, but I can't promise I will have the time to follow up all the way through.
Ha! I had never heard of ASIFA until this year. Are you in Portland?
It's kind of funny that it took me 15 years to know what ASIFA was, and here you are, in your first year, wanting to submit stuff to it. That's the difference the digital revolution has made in materials submissions. Knowledge is powar!
Don: Hey there! I haven't heard of ASIFA since about a year or so, and even aware I have not yet submitted anything...which is so lame! So hopefully you will bother more than myself and tell me about it.
you might also find this resource helpful: http://www.karmatoons.com/drawing/drawing.htm
I found out for myself, that drawing (heh - no pun intended, but anyhow...) from different sources can be very confusing - or the best way to go; depending on the quality of the sources. And as always good balance is more than half of the game. Not getting stuck with too many books but instead focusing on one or two !
EXPLORING HERE AND THERE Among things happening these days, not only John Hankins was a big and awesome surprise, but also I was invited to attend at a local stop motion studio called ¨Tamandua¨ which is about two hours from where I live. For those interested, more about them can be seen at www.tamandua.tv; they´ve done some impressive works in the past years. At the moment they are focusing on a short film that includes lots of puppets, and I offered myself to be part on the puppet department. There I met a very brilliant guy from whom now I became his apprentice and gave me access to some tools to work and design ball and socket armatures. So yes, that means I am once again eploring this journey long forgotten and left in the past by lack of material, lack of motivation after several frustrations (too many to mention), lack of proper place to use equipment and all. This time will be different though, and I am super excited to come up with some serious results. I did my ve...
m_) I keep studying Puppetix as a character and this time I focused mainly on his poses applying not just the expressions in his head but the entire composition. This is so far what I have gotten by tracing different sketches I have done over time. m_) Basically a big compilation to keep in order.
Ha! I had never heard of ASIFA until this year. Are you in Portland?
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of funny that it took me 15 years to know what ASIFA was, and here you are, in your first year, wanting to submit stuff to it. That's the difference the digital revolution has made in materials submissions. Knowledge is powar!
(^ I think him having an avid teacher on his side is helping too.
ReplyDelete(^ say hello to your driver for me, ok?
and learn everything you can about weight distribution while doing that job you start soon.
think Rattatui. it's all good.
Don: Hey there! I haven't heard of ASIFA since about a year or so, and even aware I have not yet submitted anything...which is so lame! So hopefully you will bother more than myself and tell me about it.
ReplyDeleteBrian: Rattatui sure.."anyone can animate"
you might also find this resource helpful: http://www.karmatoons.com/drawing/drawing.htm
ReplyDeleteI found out for myself, that drawing (heh - no pun intended, but anyhow...) from different sources can be very confusing - or the best way to go; depending on the quality of the sources. And as always good balance is more than half of the game. Not getting stuck with too many books but instead focusing on one or two !
All the best, man. You rock !
m_) Yes Michael, Thanks for that Link. I've seen it before and it is a great source actually.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree with you about sources. THEY MUST be the right ones...or they can take you anywhere but ..home.
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