Our good Friend of Frederator, Aaron Simpson, recently had Plastic Surgery.
On his website.
The facelift looks great IMO, but there’s been a bit of mixed feelings with folks I’ve talked to.
We want to hear what you all think.
This interview was a treat for me to do because Alex Kirwan was one of my first champions and also the catalyst for me to get into Calarts’ animation program. His character design class was one of my fondest and funnest memories of Calarts. Alex was and still is one of the nicest, most genuine, brightest talents in the animation industry.
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Have a look at this film by Julian Cardozo. Julian created this film as an After Effects experiment. It was created during the first semester of his Sophomore year at Ryerson University.
If you were still too hungover from the Drink and Draw event to get out to the MYPLASTICHEARTNYC MoneyGRIP show, Here’s look inside the event….
Below is my contribution to the show. A lot of talented artists participated.
“I do not like to repeat successes,
I like to go on to other things.” - Walt Disney
Times have changed.
Here’s a recent press release from Disney in regards to some upcoming releases from Pixar:
TOY STORY TRIO GOES 3-D
Burbank, CA – January 24, 2008 - The Walt Disney Studios is taking the latest advances in digital 3-D technology “to infinity and beyond” with ambitious plans to debut new Disney Digital 3-D™ versions of Disney- Pixar’s “Toy Story” on October 2nd, 2009, and “Toy Story 2” on February 12th, 2010, it was announced by Dick Cook, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios. Both of these beloved animated features are being newly converted to 3-D in advance of the June 18th, 2010 release of Disney-Pixar’s “Toy Story 3,” which is being produced as a 3-D motion picture and will represent the state-of-the-art for the genre. Veteran Pixar filmmaker Lee Unkrich (co-director “Toy Story 2”) [Read more…]
Joel Trussel shared a music video called Paris Is On with Channel Frederator this week. Paris Is On is about a scarred Puppet (that rhymes with Muppet) on a quest for fulfillment. It reminds me of that mind blowing scene in the muppet movie where Kermit was riding his bike, except skuzzier and designed a little better. Joel Trussell and crew did a great job for this Paul Brill vid.
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This week Roger Gihlemoen shared his short with us called Matches on Fire. Matches on Fire is just that. Matches. On Fire. Hilarious in it’s simplicity.
Reminds me of a few drunken parties in college.
Ah youth.
Those were the days. Except, none of those parties ended up
with anyone on fire… or dead.
But still.
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Never has a short film made me want to play classic arcade games and eat candy at the same time.
Give us a quick bio of yourself.
My dad’s a fisherman and I grew up close to the sea; the famous Belgian seaside. Spend a lot of my childhood on the beach … and saw a lot of “things” there 
According to my parents I started drawing, like every other child at the age of three.
Influenced by my grandfather, who painted in his spare time, they told me I’ve not stopped since then. He taught me a lot about painting and drawing, the use of colors etc…he even told me that he didn’t believe you could make a living out of it. He past away just before I went to Art School to study Animation, so I never had the chance to prove him wrong. I studied ( and partied ) in Ghent, at KASK, the oldest school for traditional animation in Europe. .. I left early in my third year [Read more…]
