More exercises

More exercises with flour sacks and squash'n'stretch...

Bouncing balls...

Just making some small exercises with bouncing balls here...

More flour sack tests...

This one was done in PAP:free too...

Doodling around with a sack in Plastic Animation Paper...

Thinking of buying PAP:pro for making sketches and animation planning. I like the UI of the application, it feels "right" and is easy and fast to use. The tracing images are highly customizable and with the pro version you can choose keyframes in a sequence of images and roll through them only. Hmm... sounds nice, doesn't it!
I don't know why Animation Mentor doesn't include this software on the recommended list of educational discount stuff? Because you DO get this software at a discount as a AM student. I know, I asked!

Some more fast drawings...

A couple of drawings again...

An old Man's fight with an anti-gravity-device

This is a clip from a lecture given at Calarts by Glen Keane as he goes through a simple scene under a document camera.  An old man fighting gravity as he forces his way up from a chair.

Illusion of life

As a part of preparing for Animation Mentor I am now reading the johnston/thomas book "illusion of life". I have just read through the chapter "discovery 1934-1936" and I am completely fascinated. There is a lot of stuff about the inside dynamics of the Disney team, how the different personalities of the team are banging heads against each other and how they find some kind of a balance finding out who is good at which areas, how they complement each other... Very interesting. And so much of it directly reminds me of my own job environment at YLE, also a team effort making children's live action programme's. All those creative team crashes...
If the rest of the book is only half as interesting as this chapter it will be a breeze to get through the 600 pages.:-)