That's one thing I needed to tone down with the animators, because animators love to overact.
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Disney Animators' Collection Mini Doll Gift Set, $99.95The Disney Animators doll series is an adorable take on classic Disney characters.
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The Animators , by Kayla Rae Whitaker (Random House) .
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As the number of animators in the Academy steadily grew — and with it, the number of animators from outside the major studio system — more diverse films began to creep into the category.
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For everything you watch and love, animators pay the price.
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The animators working with these 3D models, they're artists, right?
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Tartakovsky and the animators make every struggle feel viscerally real.
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What is your training and experience as animators and directors?
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The animators bought in and the network's executives took notice.
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"It's an in joke amongst animators," explains YouTuber Tom Scott.
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"We don't double up on animators per shot," Pascall says.
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Antoni and Marc Tudisco are 3D animators from Hamburg, Germany.
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Inside, parkgoers could receive art tips from actual Disney animators.
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Along with studying physics, the animators went skydiving for inspiration.
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Animators had a few tricks up their slee ... er, gloves.
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This level of consumption is fueled by about 2000 animators.
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But animators behind the 1995 original are divided over the film.
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The solution is not as simple as animators demanding higher salaries.
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"There's not a huge population of African American animators," added Persichetti.
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It would have given the animators total control over their environment.
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You can literally see the residue of the animators' work constantly.
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The system is targeted primarily at game designers, developers and animators.
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An Oscar boost can also help indie animators fund future projects.
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Disney took me around and introduced me to many of the animators.
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At the entry level are "in-between animators," who are usually freelancers.
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In-between animators earn around 403 yen per drawing — less than $2.
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I was at the time one of the only animators on campus.
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Minions are yellow because the animators thought their shape resembled Kinder eggs.
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For more basic figures, like Mickey Mouse, animators worked mainly with circles.
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Suffer through the moment with her and our crack team of animators.
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The seasoned animators gave him "this patient smile," Bird said in 2009.
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He joined the company in 1990 as one of its first animators.
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Animators had to control how much water was spraying off of it.
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The animators used live-action reference videos of themselves as a guide.
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Also Kayla Rae Whitaker, whose debut, "The Animators," came out last year.
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That's something that we really value as a studio and as animators.
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One cut — one scene — would have three to four animators working on it.
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He was also an animator, one of the earliest animators on Sesame Street.
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The animators blended the nuances of both elements into fully realized CG characters.
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Instead, they provided guidance for the animators to create far more detailed shots.
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The animators worked in Maya, on an exact replica digital rendering of Cozmo.
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"The animators' time is the most precious thing that we have," he says.
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In directing or observing the animators, what was most challenging to get right?
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The animators looked to the actual transit system and buildings of Mexico City.
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A team of 75 animators spent nearly four years working on the sequel.
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I noticed that animators are far more productive when working in union shops.
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Digital effects give animators vast powers to create extravagant fantasies; anything seems possible.
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Today, animators still use techniques like rotoscoping to turn real movement into animation.
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Other contemporary selections demonstrate some of the most mind-bending animators working today.
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All we know for sure right now is that their animators are working overtime.
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But there are also emerging options that let animators work directly within virtual reality.
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" But the animators held to a main goal that "realism had to trump likeness.
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Microsoft wants video editors, artists, designers and animators to fall in love with Windows.
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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The animators size up muscle, the wrinkles of skin and the movement of fur.
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So, back in the 70s, he made the animators draw Shaggy as a vegetarian.
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It hired Pixar animators to make sure Cozmo has a friendly and expressive face.
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A lot of these young animators never have done that, because it was passé.
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How much of that is Andy, and how much of that becomes the animators?
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And so do the filmmakers, animators, and illustrators at Paris-based design studio Parallel.
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But hiring animators is expensive and simply out of the question for most companies.
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Few animators have busted down as many doors for indie animation as Ralph Bakshi.
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Gwen Stefani, Anna Kendrick, and the animators of upcoming film Trolls all make appearances.
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Five animators to sent us a GIF and described their own relationship with Pride.
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It was no crime for Disney animators to draw Maui any way they wanted.
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Then computer animators created rough versions of the spaces through which the characters move.
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Early animators responded to this problem by choosing to display the exacting process itself.
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Animators are bearing a nearly intolerable burden for the sake of beautifully hand-drawn television.
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We gave the animators total license to come up with the characters from the refs.
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My voice and a dazzle of gifted animators have teamed up to play Proxima Midnight.
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I'd love to give the animators here the sole credit for their brilliant movie magic.
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We also posted two Vines created by some of our favorite female stop motion animators.
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Unlike most other studios, KyoAni hires animators as salaried employees who aren't paid per frame.
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It's a tale as old as time that animators would add Secret Mickeys into movies.
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Entertainment Weekly reports that Disney's magical animators are already hard at work on Frozen 2.
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We had animators coming and going, because we couldn't really afford to pay Laika rates.
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One-hundred-and-thirty animators brought 86 different animal species to life for the film.
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During the tour, Bruns told some of the Disney animators about Bird's own animation project.
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When Mr. Bird recruited disgruntled people at Pixar, he wasn't just looking for angry animators.
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It's easy for animators and writers alike to forget these rules, which seem deceptively simple.
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The articulation that the animators have at their disposal is, yeah, the word is radical.
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One-hundred-and-thirty animators brought 86 different animal species to life for the film.
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To design them, the animators actually incorporated characteristics of the trolls from the first film.
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The first generation of animators often conjured up fictitious interactions with their hand-drawn characters.
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The technology of motion capture with the suit he wears and the dots on his face delivered 80 percent of pure, soulful performance to the animators and the video cameras that recorded his performance from six different angles gave the animators the next 20 percent.
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The teaser video shows behind-the-scenes footage of artists and animators working on the film.
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Another model could be allowing animators to retain the rights to their drawings and earn royalties.
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Inside, work by 20173 Japanese artists, designers, and animators colorfully highlighted flatness in Japan's visual culture.
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There's a hilarious version of the animatic that's basically one of my animators reading the parts.
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We never knew when the animators were going to get him wet, and in which way.
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GIF animators work in a medium that co-evolved with a culture of rapid internet sharing.
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We want to make sure we raise up the next generation of animators, and inspire kids.
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The video took the work of many animators and musicians, including Cool 3D World and Battles.
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"His work has continued to inspire and influence the leading animators of today," the statement said.
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It is a very exciting creative process for the animators who gave themselves to it wholeheartedly.
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However, the free version will surely help animators hone their craft without spending a pretty penny.
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Stop-motion origami is something new for a Laika film and presented animators with a challenge.
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"Here are animators who can actually keep up with him," Janet Maslin wrote in The Times.
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"Disney animators frequently used to recycle footage from older animated films," YouTube poster Movie Munchies explains.
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A year ago, many of the animators at Snapchat worked for companies like Disney and DreamWorks.
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It was like the animators responded to your images, which was a response to the script.
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But Mr. Jessup emphasized that the animators were always mindful of the roots of the design.
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One crucial decision that had faced the animators was choosing the right age for their creation.
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But then the animators went one step further to create a film that looked like this.
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Because buildings were no longer covered in snow, animators had to add lots of new details.
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Descended from the legendary pencils used by traditional animators, the Blackwing is a really good pencil.
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Throughout his gaming career, one theme stood out: he was much faster than his fellow animators.
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In this case, the animators use some stylish visuals to great effect to convey Rei's internal struggles.
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Are they 3D animators who need to max out both the CPU and GPU for their workload?
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A staggering number of animators, video game creators, voice actors, and YouTubers are counted as site alumni.
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The outlet reached out to 13 animators who worked on the film and six responded to them.
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"It takes genius to create beautiful hand-drawn animation, and animators' skills are not valued," he said.
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Where do you foresee the industry going for new artists and animators who've come of age online?
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Finally, the animators made sure to deepen this interaction with the real world by playing with shadows.
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The filmmakers did have the animators try out a smooch, but in the finished film, they don't.
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A drastic reduction in the amount of time and effort animators need to achieve that perfect gait.
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" We were talking to the animators and said, "How about you just hit it with a saw?
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The project collaborated with seven Black femme illustrators and animators to create designed GIFs depicting Black culture.
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Times have changed, though, and as Cosmopolitan reported, clever animators are adding more than that famous mouse.
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Sony employed around 177 animators to create the film, more than double the animation crew typically hired.
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The show even has enough formal flexibility to invite guest animators for occasional experiments in different styles.
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It took the animators six months of testing and tweaking, and the hair still didn't look right.
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PDT: A previous version of this story misspelled the surname of one of the Google Doodle animators.
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Here, Marshall discusses how animators were brought out of retirement to work on the 2-D animation.
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One of the amazing things about Pixar is that the animators have full carte blanche to create.
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Undone employs rotoscoping, a technique where animators trace over live footage, for a smooth but surreal effect.
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A team of about 75 animators worked on the movie over the course of roughly four years.
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There&aposs a detail even more subtle than movement that the animators needed to get right: breathing.
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While these look incredibly realistic, the animators actually pulled back so they didn&apost look too real.
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With so many sets going on at the same time, there are only so many animators available.
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And being around animators and hanging out with artists, I think it deepened my connection to art.
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Using cheap, widely available technology, animators created original video content featuring some of Hollywood's best-loved characters.
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One of SpongeBob SquarePants' greatest strengths is how much its animators push the boundaries of their medium.
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Working from his Brooklyn studio, he sent the animators images and bought them materials, including pencils and lightboxes.
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GIF: Berkeley Artificial Intelligence ResearchNormally, computer animators have to manually create custom controllers for every skill or task.
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That could mean less grunt work for animators and more natural-looking movements for characters we play as.
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Reviewers praised the work of Invasion America's Korea-based animators, and Wired called the show a potential hit.
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The show's dynamite writers, illustrators, and animators squeeze in visual gags that happen faster than you can blink.
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But it's hard to get an exact estimate since animators tend to distance themselves from the furry community.
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I'm excited that we are now nurturing talent: hosts, cameramen and women, photographers, writers, animators, filmmakers and editors.
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Toonz, the software that animators at Studio Ghibli used for classics like Princess Mononoke, is going open source.
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How do you make the set modular, so walls can be removed, so animators can access the puppets?
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It's an ideal scenario to keep one animator on a scene, because animators are like designers and actors.
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Anki requires its animators to test out each new sequence on a physical Cozmo prototype at their desks.
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So the animators used human hair on Kubo, with a silicon coat combed through it for durability. 2.
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Vector's already got the adorable bit down, courtesy of a team staffed by former Pixar and DreamWorks animators.
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A group of 30 animators spent the past year recreating moments from the intro to Super Smash Bros.
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They can also become animators themselves, tracing images of cartoon characters and shooting their own stop-motion shorts.
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We're painters and playwrights, comedians, dancers, animators, entrepreneurs, students, musicians, actors, drag queens, skate punks, and amateur boxers.
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The buildings wouldn&apost be covered in snow, so the animators had to fill in all the gaps.
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About 300 people, including 33 animators, worked on the movie "Klaus," which took over two years to make.
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Our animators spent a lot of time making sure it felt believable but also sort of weirdly magical.
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The 1995 Woody had 596 "avars" — or animated variables — that animators could manipulate; the current model has 7,198.
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Nicholas Sammond writes in his book Birth of an Industry that early animators often performed at these shows.
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These two required people inside them, plus a team of remote animators, just to make it across the hall.
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They're also pretty stellar examples of what capable animators can do with the limits of a 16-bit palette.
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"We've got completely new stories from the original writers, cast, and animators," show executive producer David X. Cohen says.
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But the animators chose the more difficult, rewarding path, which broke down the walls that separated toon from human.
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The... Toonz, the software that animators at Studio Ghibli used for classics like Princess Mononoke, is going open source.
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In one of their latest episodes, writers and animators took aim at campy 80s action films and television shows.
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Narrator: Animators, editors, and developers who needed better performance didn't need just high-speed Thunderbolt and external hard drives.
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At that point, we were doing animation tests, and talking with the animators and with Gwilym Morris, the lead.
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Indeed, the then 14-year-old Bird mailed his unsolicited finished animated short to the animators at Walt Disney.
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Multimedia artists and animators create animation and visual effects for television, movies, video games, and other forms of media.
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On a Friday afternoon, Giles gathered seven millennial animators in a conference room tucked behind a ping-pong table.
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Hertzfeldt didn't see a dime, was not pleased, and unlike many professional animators, hasn't touched the advertising industry since.
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They actually shot her dancing to some of the songs and then the animators looked at that for inspiration.
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So, many animators animate "on twos," which means they display 12 drawings per second, with each drawing shown twice.
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Kubo took five years for the studio to perfect; animators and sculptors essentially handcrafted the film's universe from scratch.
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The animators strive to create convincing performances for their characters — who have to react to the live actors' actions.
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These projects are called Brickfilms and are often a starting point for animators looking to get into the business.
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They rose to the challenge, testing ideas that had never have been considered by the mainstream technicians and animators.
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Bleacher Report hired a team of 10 animators (now 15), allowing the Malamuts to create an eight-episode season.
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Junior animators are paid as little as $2 per drawing — each of which can take an hour or more.
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An outdated industry model sends all of the profits to distribution and merchandise companies, leaving animators with almost nothing.
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Ms. O'Connor's iconic stories are also brought to life through motion graphics, created by a team of female animators.
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In 1967, Disney's "Jungle Book" animators had to painstakingly craft the "I Wan'na Be Like You" routine by hand.
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He could authorize another actor to do the job or entrust the performance entirely to the director and animators.
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And animators had to think about whether at any given moment Gale was supposed to be playful or dangerous.
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Every move and cut has dramatic weight, with the animators having meticulously plotted out each beat of each duel.
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The animators visited a bronze casting workshop and collaborated with the curator and the restoration department of the museum.
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Fans can also get a sense of what a day at the office felt like for the first Disney animators.
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"It'd be pretty hard to make, as even the animators found the in-game model complex to manipulate," Yoko laughs.
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Animators already know how to render subsurface scattering—there are mathematical parameters that define how light behaves in these situations.
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Impressively, the animators don't have to alter the graphics for existing body hair, the target actor body, or the background.
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But in this particular case, Jordan also really liked what a lot of the animators were doing with the character.
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"It was really important to get the animators and the effects artists studying my mom's technique up close," she said.
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The Times reports that one of that cartoon's animators, Tim Luecke, will be bringing his creation to the new series.
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"And there's not a huge population of Latino animators, especially in Vancouver" where much of the animation team was based.
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Then the animators would step in and draw the characters seamlessly interacting with the props or grabbing an actors lapel.
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To succeed at VR he had to recruit 3D modellers and animators, but that world was second nature to him.
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I can't do it, but I work with animators and designers who can take that style and make them attractive.
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She worked with artists to ensure accurate clothing designs and building layouts and helped the animators design realistic fighting techniques.
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Imagine if Star Fox met classic action cartoons like G-Force and hand-drawn greatness from animators like Don Bluth.
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Nowadays the doodles can be richly animated interactive experiences built by an entire team of engineers, animators and UX designers.
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To what degree do you need to rely on procedural generation versus having animators keyframe certain moments or entire scenes?
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In the tradition of Walt Disneys' Fantasia, the film combines elements of both professional classical musicians and highly skilled animators.
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Back then, animators were not quite able to replicate the fine detail of Mr. Melton's work in their computer models.
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"Then the animators test-drive these models the way a racecar driver would test-drive a Ferrari," Mr. Bird said.
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Stop-motion is a time-consuming filmmaking process in which animators advance the movements of models minutely with each frame.
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He would create his own studio, pulling some of the top talent from Ghibli's deep stable of feature film animators.
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That's largely thanks to the animators at Animal Logic, a Sydney-based visual effects studio that worked on the film.
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Ms. Stewart said it is significant because Ms. Chenzira is considered to be one of the first black female animators.
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The iron railings and supports of the 1907 Palacio de Correos, in Mexico City's historic center, also inspired the animators.
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To get a sense of actual horses, animators studied horse anatomy, met with a horse trainer, and actually rode horses.
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And because of the size of the sets, it would be challenging to get animators working on a set simultaneously.
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The festival presents new works but also brings out older animated shorts, both from veteran animators and from obscure figures.
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This Thursday, Echo Park Film Center will screen a selection of short films made using pinscreen animation from two Canadian animators.
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Trips were arranged to the US Army base at Fort Benning, Georgia, so FSW's designers and animators could observe genuine maneuvers.
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They have the best animators and designers, so you get to learn a lot by surrounding yourself with super talented people.
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To her astonishment, the studio officially greenlighted Bao, and Shi found herself suddenly leading a small army of animators and artists.
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Big Fish and Begonia, Chinese animators Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun's blockbuster debut, is packed to the brim with enchanting moments.
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Finally, Disney is working on a documentary series called Ink & Paint, a Hidden Figures-style show about its forgotten female animators.
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It involves animators drawing the same image multiple times and looping the drawings in a sequence to create depth and movement.
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Groening could stand to learn from his fellow Netflix animators and find the courage to edge further out into untested territory.
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Animators and industry watchers have been pretty excited for the past few months about Saya, an incredibly realistic CGI Japanese teenager.
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From video producers, to 3D animators, to music producers, to artists, Apple says it's looking into the bottlenecks that frustrate professionals.
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Ms. Kobiela, who has made several animated shorts in a country that boasts an array of accomplished animators, supplied the vision.
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Our very large crew of talented actors, artisans, animators and their various four-legged friends are very excited for this honor.
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It has since blossomed into a team of 20 animators, storyboarders, producers, character and environment designers, background artists, and sound mixers.
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Two of the "Frozen 2" animators were turned into little statues you can see during the "Some Things Never Change" song.
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The Times has a fascinating article about how the animators show deeply felt emotions on the faces of Buzz and Woody.
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To make her skin look less flat and more like a shiny porcelain doll, animators changed the way they lit her.
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Animators will illustrate the sets of guests — including Reggie Watts, Clare O'Kane, Mehran Khaghani and others — on a screen behind them.
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Some of those appear as is, but the computer animators also digitally chopped them up for 3-D animation of scenes.
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While Elsa goes through some costume changes, animators made sure whatever she was wearing was part of a cool color palette.
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The animators utilize movement to demonstrate how the characters changed since the first film, as well as the differences between them.
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Animating realistic water is not easy, and animators used what they&aposd learned on previous Disney films to make it work.
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For years, Keane has been recognized as one of the most important animators in the field, receiving a number of accolades.
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A lot of animators think you can create a character and then just have it be in space and walk around.
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He's also the co-founder of Circle Line Projects, a collective of multidisciplinary, animators, and directors in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.
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The set includes an animators desk, Weber's signature "airline chair," closet and floor lamps estimated to be worth between $2000,210 and $2000,20163.
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As during Walt's reign, live animals (a cub and an adult lion) were brought into Disney's studio for the animators to study.
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And check out the animators who participated in this story and support their work: Shingo Adachi, Henry Thurlow, Terumi Nishii, and Zakoani.
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One organization, New Anime Making System Project, raises money to provide a safety net and reduce burnout for up-and-coming animators.
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For Mass Effect 2, the development team worked in "pods", with writers grouped with technical designers, animators, environment artists and QA testers.
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Virtual reality comics are a medium I could actually imagine artists adapting to easily, without becoming full-fledged 3D modelers or animators.
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BNC: When our animators first came onto the team, we had a screening of My Neighbors the Yamadas for all of them.
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The animators also studied Cozmo's design and made sure the robot moves in a manner more similar to Wall-E than Aibo.
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Click here to view original GIFGIF: YouTubeAs you can see, the animators used motion capture technology and added the robot in later.
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The production studio Laika prefers to have individual animators tackle entire scenes, to enhance the continuity and give the scenes individual character.
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Part of Adventure Time's millennial appeal is no mystery—the team of writers, animators, and producers driving the show skews very young.
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The animators create interesting adaptations of surrealist landscapes mastered by Dali and Magritte, as well as the puzzling designs of M.C Escher.
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The fourth edition of 30 Seconds of Sound dropped last month, bringing together animators including Peter Clark (previously) and Jason Drew (previously).
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Also, the melding of the characters with the background, it's gotten more fluid as we've learned to work with [the other animators].
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Animators Alexandre Louvenaz, Maggie RAPT, Cool 3D World, Andre Kasay, and Julian Glander had to have been there, because they get it.
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In a few shots, the director asked the animators to make the shark as much as one-third bigger, for added effect.
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The movie was directed by veteran animators Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly, known for their work with Disney and Sony Pictures, respectively.
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When Kristoff is singing in "Some Things Never Change," you can briefly little statues made in the likeness of two Disney animators.
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The animators designed a special costume of T-shirt, rolled-up jeans and bare feet to fit the logic of the story.
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Next, I'd take Emily and Lin out, and just shoot the reference dancers so the animators would know what they'd be doing.
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Marshall edited it while the rest of the filming was going on, to give the animators time to draw the other characters.
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Reaktive: Aimed at creative professionals like animators, video editors and engineers, Reaktive is designed to replace desktop hardware with cloud-based solutions.
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To fill out the storyboard, he plucks images from around the web, including Google Maps, and then animators flesh out his vision.
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Before then, women were mostly relegated to the ink & paint departments, where they would trace and color outlines made by male animators.
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But here it&aposs a character, so they had to create a new program for the animators just for this, called Swoop.
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But before the animators could control its emotions, they had to figure out how to control the water it&aposs made of.
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The festival enters its third weekend with tickets available for several programs, including "Animators All Around," a panel at 3:30 p.m.
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The series was written by Kevin Ulrich and brought to life by stop-motion animators, and directors Dan MacKenzie and Tucker Barrie.
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, I look into the beginning of rotoscoping, a technique animators can use to create realistic motion.
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It would take 26 animators to do the entire movie, with 90 different unit set-ups being filmed at the same time.
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Jaime Griesemer When a big chunk of the design team went to "Phoenix," we brought in some new blood, animators and environment artists.
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The goal is to help developers and animators easily integrate animations into their apps to increase engagement or overall up the interactive factor.
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The co-founder of Walt Disney Productions and the co-founder of Japan's famed Studio Ghibli are dramatically different as animators and storytellers.
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But no doubt there are animators out there who can't wait to get their hands on this once it gets where it's going.
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In an exposé published by Buzzfeed News, reporter Ariane Lange details Kricfalusi's relationships with two women — aspiring animators and cartoonists — who were underage.
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We get to see how the hilarious animators of The Simpsons have repurposed and refashioned those iconic movies to be set in Springfield.
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This new animated short from Pixar animators Lou Hamou-Lhadj and Andrew Coats is not for the faint of heart — or for children.
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For people who need high-end, extreme-performance workstations — animators, programmers and designers — Apple revealed a new Mac Pro desktop tower in June.
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The animators inject dozens of little gestures to establish this feeling — note the brief shot in which young Marceline strokes her mother's arm.
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By crafting a range of different expressions using a 3D printer, animators are able to portray more subtle emotions in their characters' faces.
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In these halcyon days, filmmakers and animators are still learning how to tell VR stories with an audience that's free to look wherever.
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It was a fascinating challenge to work alongside animators to produce an immersive experience that is as accurate as it can possibly be.
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The design simply wasn't acceptable, and after a frightening amount of criticism from fans the animators vowed to do right and recreate him.
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Over the course of about four years, starting in 1985, it took many animators and character designers to bring the character to life.
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Director Rian Johnson used some practical hangar sets and an A-Wing fighter in the scene, around which animators composited their digital magic.
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He mentioned that contemporary animators frequently crave the opportunity to make movies about more mature subject matter but are rarely given the chance.
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Brands, too, fell in love with the format and hired many of Vines most talented animators to create some awesome six-second spots.
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The GIF Elevator offers six top-tier animators and media artists the chance to install their work in the enclosed spaces between floors.
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This tracks with what a group of animators over at AnimState concluded over the course of a round-table discussion of Andromeda's issues.
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""We developed the counterpart of the same reindeer in CGI to use them when they would get too heavy for animators to draw.
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In lieu of a setting for the story, the animators discussed only how they could "indicate an environment," perhaps using sand or grass.
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The animators often film themselves role-playing as the character, or pull reference videos from YouTube, in order to realistically portray body movement.
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Other animators began to film oscilloscopes after this, but her work makes her one of the earliest, and a pioneer in electronic art.
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Bristol, England, home to the Oscar-winning animators Aardman Animations and the BBC's Natural History Unit, was cited as a City of Film.
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Because the freewheeling medium of animation isn't constrained by reality, animators have long had the ability to play with the concept of death.
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And at the sort of small, family-owned restaurant that would probably be shuttering right now if it weren't drawn by animators … Sigh.
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And at the sort of small, family-owned restaurant that would probably be shuttering right now if it weren't drawn by animators … Sigh.
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Mary and the Witch's Flower This is the first film from Studio Ponoc, formed by several former animators from Japan's revered Studio Ghibli.
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By contrast, Mr. King and his excellent team of actors and animators spin good writing and seamless digital effects into Rococo children's entertainment.
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Some episodes were directed by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, who went on to international fame as animators and founders of Studio Ghibli.
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The budget had been tight, and the production was gruelling, with the team's best animators producing just two seconds of film a day.
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The animators obviously used a physics model here for the basic trajectory, so the Ravagers move up and down in a believable way.
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He started out developing software for animators working on Disney's original Beauty and the Beast, and he doesn't seem like a suit, exactly.
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Behind them are Hanks's brilliant voice work and the combined efforts of scores of animators — around a hundred on "Toy Story 4" alone.
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More intangibly, but perhaps most crucially, animators learn to empathize with their characters, and invest their performances with their own memories and feelings.
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Despite the rumor, the live action model for Tinkerbell was actress and dancer Margaret Kerry, who spent six months pantomiming Tink's movements for animators.
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A few helpful links for things we talk about in the podcast: -The Los Angeles Times' piece on the treatment of Sausage Party's animators
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But as others pointed out online, examples like these show why diversity among animators, producers, and writers matters — especially at big studios like Disney.
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A "dumpling master" according to Shi, her mother did multiple dumpling making tutorials for the animators to study and base their animation off of.
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A new bit of research from the company makes it easier for animators to have hair follow their artistic intent while also moving realistically.
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The Anki team has seen to that, hiring animators from Pixar and DreamWorks and a staff composer to mathematically pluck at his purchaser's heartstrings.
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The networks compressed distance between physicists in California, hackers in Holland, philosophers in Eastern Europe, animators in Japan—and this writer in New York.
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They asked five female animators from around the world to share their vision of Powerpuff empowerment and combined them for a colorful music video.
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So as animators, those are the kinds of things we're trying to do so you don't think about the differences between humans and chimps.
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The OpenToonz software will include features created by the studio, so animators can make use of the techniques the group pioneered over the years.
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So we could only afford to keep animators a short period of time before they had to move on and take higher-paying jobs.
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In a new series of paintings by Disney animators Griselda Sastrawinata-Lemay and Normand Lemay, felines star in some of GOT's most iconic scenes.
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Along the way, there were countless creators who made music with her software, illustrations of the character, and even animators who made music videos.
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They're also committed to training the next generation of animators through Vortex Academy, which offers classes on illustration, coding, creative thinking, and graphic design.
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Charlie built a team of sound designers, producers, animators — many of whom had also lost people they were close to at a young age.
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Snap (SNAP), the parent company of Snapchat, encourages this community of creators, who range from graphic designers to artists, animators and Snapchat super fans.
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"The animators and directors were constantly challenging the engineers to give them the tools with which they could fulfill their creative dreams," he wrote.
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She got to meet with one of the animators of the characters in many Disney movies, and that helped her get through the treatment.
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But in "The Animators," Whitaker has given us something we rarely see: a relationship between two women that also revolves around business and art.
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In early tests, there was way too much water coming off the mane and tale, which animators described as looking like a fire hydrant.
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While young Simba was working on his roar in the new "Lion King," his designers and animators were laboring over a good deal more.
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While young Simba was working on his roar in the new "Lion King," his designers and animators were laboring over a good deal more.
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This rubber hose and circle aesthetic that dominated early animation posed a problem for animators in the age of fuzzy black and white film.
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For Laura Hoptman, the curator of Forever Now, it is a platform that can host re-animators, where painters appropriate styles, remix, mashup, or sample.
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The computer animators have done a fine job of making him seem believably bearlike while still turning his big bear snout into a happy grin.
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The twist: Harmon, Crittenden, and their comedian pals play D&D in front of a studio audience, and then animators transform their adventures into cartoons.
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There's nothing here akin to the animated personality Anki has developed for Cozmo by assembling a team of animators from places like Pixar and Dreamworks.
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Sphero says its engineers worked with Pixar animators and directors to help ensure the toy moves just like the CG character in the Cars films.
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It's no surprise that animators are eager to embrace any shortcut they can—which is why realistic-looking CG mud could be a game changer.
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It's hiring animators and fashion designers in what feels like a bigger push to capture some of the premium laptop market that Apple has dominated.
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So anything that makes that particular job easier is almost certainly welcome to the animators, set designers and others who want make these environments sing.
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Which makes sense because one of the best chefs in the world, Thomas Keller, imagined the recipe up for the animators at Pixar to make.
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"The animators would take the choices that they made and interpolate it into what a lion would do or a hyena would do," Favreau explained.
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No terrorist attack could diminish the deeply personal work of Kyoto Animation, a firm that has always championed the sophisticated storytelling of its women animators.
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Animators drew human figures, like Disney Princesses, as realistically as possible (minus those huge eyes and tiny waists), so they have the usual five fingers.
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Features like Isle of Dogs and The Incredibles 2 require armies of animators with huge computer banks and millions of dollars to work for years.
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Then a team of animators overlaid computer rendered fur and facial features on these movements to create the King Kong we see on the screen.
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"We wrote a huge amount of software inside of Maya to allow our animators not to animate a movie, but an actual robot," Tappeiner says.
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Each shoot requires many copies of the same puppet, again so multiple animators can work simultaneously — there were 32 separate Kubo puppets on this shoot.
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In the last 27 years, the writers and animators behind The Simpsons have built a vast fictional world that presents plenty of opportunities for analysis.
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The walking cycle is a classic format for filmmakers, animators, and GIF-makers, reaching back to very first movie, Eadweard Muybridge's Horse in Motion (1878).
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Let's hope that Pixar's animators and writers are taking note, because fans are going to need a pretty thorough explainer if these theories are accurate.
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At Snapchat, the siblings oversee an in-house animation studio consisting of a few dozen animators, scriptwriters, visual effects artists, character riggers, engineers and others.
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Related: These 8 Artist Bring Glitch Art Into the Real World Animators Reinvent the Cheeky Eggplant Trip Out to These DMT-Inspired 3D GIF Works
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The director Paul King and his team of actors and animators "spin good writing and seamless digital effects into Rococo children's entertainment," our critic writes.
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Never thinking themselves fair-weather animators, Zwelley develops work that is at once simple and classically understated, but with a compellingly miniature aesthetic to them.
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For some new characters, like fan favorite Forky, supervising animator Scott Clark said animators actually limited his movements to show that he was still developing.
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"We hope [animators will be] happy with the results as an early starting point, to save a lot time on their final product," Yang says.
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In the presentations that followed, animators, designers, and musicians tasked with carrying out Buck and Lee's vision regaled journalists with more behind-the-scenes antics.
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Meanwhile, Procreate has a Text tool and animation features that only make it a more attractive, on-the-go option for designers, cartoonists, and animators.
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GIPHY Arts worked with TRANSFER Gallery and Rhizome to commission 30 artists and animators' sculptures and installations, most of which eschew the file format entirely.
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As Young performs, animators take notes as they work to turn the stick figure on their screens into the familiar blonde — supplemented with a human edge.
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The tension between a ruthless industry structure and anime's artistic idealism forces animators to suffer exploitation for the sake of art, with no solution in sight.
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Sphero employs on-staff animators who specifically designed each animation of the car to ensure it looked accurate while live rendering in response to its use.
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That meant we had to have our routine locked in early and send video of the rehearsals to the animators so they could prepare the animation.
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For animation buffs, it's always exciting to see new Laika time-lapse videos, showing how animators personally tweak the characters' positions over time, producing fluid movement.
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With the help of a couple of Pixar animators, toymaker Anki built a robot with two motorized treads, big engaging eyes, and a ton of personality.
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This show seems like it will be completely ridiculous, but in the sort of way that lets the animators have a lot of fun with it.
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And then there's Wacom, which has long been the default choice for professional artists and animators who need to do the bulk of their work digitally.
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For the subplots they couldn't get footage of, the team got those involved to recount what happened and hired animators to bring the stories to life.
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People can easily add layers of animation to a video, and specialized animators can take it to another level and make full cartoons and 3D worlds.
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Chip Fox believes there may be more furry animators working at Disney (when asked about furries at the company, a representative for Disney declined to comment).
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And before they can even get started on a scene, other teams have spent many months assembling all the materials the animators are going to use.
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According to Entertainment Weekly, the animators of Zootopia included an Easter egg that even fans of Anna and Elsa may miss if they're not paying attention.
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The "Dragon Quest" characters are designed by "Dragon Ball" creator Akira Toriyama, whose distinct art style has also influenced generations of animators and video game developers.
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"Al was a real innocent who didn't know how he got what he got," Peter Sander, one of the animators, told The Toronto Star in 1987.
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The "SpongeBob" animators clearly drew inspiration from the viral image, as well as the story, which includes a scene in Squidward's bedroom with a screaming sound.
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The animators had a wonderful time incorporating a lot of his body language and a lot of his facial performance that matches up with his voice.
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Animators have previously said that using white paint would have been too bright and made it difficult to spot the pups during the treacherous snow scenes.
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For this globe-trotting adventure, the animators had to create 106,000 interchangeable faces and build 110 sets, ranging from an Old West town to the Himalayas.
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Hosoda is hopeful for the future of Japan's animation industry despite the fact that more and more animators rely on computer graphics to polish their work.
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Not only did the animators go above and beyond in fixing Sonic to look more like his video game origins, but they might've saved the movie.
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While the majority of the film followed the 23D process, the animators did use 3D models for some characters and objects and combined the two seamlessly.
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With advances in the technology, animators now have more time to polish their shots, and Woody has arguably become a finer, more controlled performer than ever.
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His books are to be found in any animators library today because of what they teach you about drawing, composition, telling a story in a frame.
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Animators usually opt for game developer software, which is better suited to interactivity and a work pipeline that lets multiple teams work on a film at once.
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Their shorts will be part of "ShatterBox Anthology," a series featuring 12 engaging and inspiring short-form original scripted films created by female directors, writers and animators.
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Videographers, musicians, writers, illustrators, animators, podcasters, game developers and more artists are finding steady income through Patreon at a time when other platforms look shaky for creators.
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TV stations, merchandise companies, and foreign streaming services walk away with the profits, leaving not only individual animators struggling but entire studios scraping by on shoestring budgets.
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The project has provided affordable housing for animators who have gone on to direct parts of Naruto, Attack on Titan, and other top-of-the-line anime.
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Even cooler, Besamé revealed at the Disney D23 Expo that the pigments in the palette are identical to the colors the original animators used in the film.
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The problem Disney Research aimed to solve was a compromise that animators have had to make when making the hair on characters do what the scene requires.
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It's designed for simplicity, so anyone from 2D Photoshop newbies to experienced 3D animators and coders can jump into making basic image overlays or reactive AR characters.
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So the animators employed forced perspective to create the illusion of distance—even though, technically speaking, all of the toons were drawn on top of the film.
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Being salaried means KyoAni's animators can spend more time on each drawing while still earning the same salary as a freelance animator who's cranking out more pages.
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Click here to view original GIFIf there's one thing animators love, its sneaking visual references into movies, and Disney's geniuses are some of the best at it.
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Click here to view original GIFPixar animators Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj made this short film Borrowed Time over the past 5 years, and it's fantastic.
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But director Bill Condon (who also directed Dreamgirls and the final two Twilight films) and the animators handled these details with careful consideration and attention to detail.
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It's where the voice actors met to record their scenes, with cameras capturing them so animators could use their expressions and emotions as reference for the animals.
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I have always wanted our animation studios to be places where creators can explore their vision with the support and collaboration of other gifted animators and storytellers.
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When it was being made, the film was considered the "B" movie at the animation studio, and a lot of animators didn't want to work on it.
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Ziva uses a physics engine that models how each of these elements' physical properties interact, so that animators don't have to make its virtual muscles fire manually.
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AMSTERDAM — The Czech master of Surrealist cinema, Jan Svankmajer, is revered by animators for his stop-motion movies that are by turns absurd, grotesque, erotic and horrific.
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The current boom in Japanese animation has led to a shortage of capable animators, a major issue in an industry notorious for its often breakneck work schedules.
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" De Fuentes also talks up the diversity of the behind-the-scenes crew—"Our director is from Mexico, we have Cuban animators, Spanish line producers, English writers.
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The animators create the characters, and the visual effects team adds computer simulations, like weather effects or how a piece of clothing will drape over a character.
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"The majority of the animators in Cuba are students in the design or art schools," said Ermitis Blanco, founder and head animator of ÑOOo Productions in Havana.
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He thinks that getting to work with and get advice from professionals in the field, like animators at Cartoon Network, is part of the reason for that.
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There were things that looked horrible if you rotated them slightly, but if you put them back where the animators had them, they worked for that frame.
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To play up the psychedelic effect, the show makes use of rotoscoping, a technique in which live-action footage is traced over, frame by frame, by animators.
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Vector's face also features a higher res display, making it capable of expressing subtler emotion redesigned by that staff of ex-Pixar and Dreamworks animators the company employs.
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Invitees range from actors to writers to animators to producers, made up of both Oscar winners and those who have never taken part in the award ceremony before.
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As of 2015, 60 percent of animation students are women, yet men make up almost 80 percent of animators in the workforce, according to Women in Animation data.
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The folks behind it were none other than Aardman Animations -- who would go on to create "Wallace and Gromit" -- and The Brothers Quay, highly influential stop-motion animators.
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As the animators who created last year's The Peanuts Movie discovered, it's not easy to build a three-dimensional object out of something usually only presented in two.
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Korean filmmakers have teamed up with technicians and computer engineers, including visual effects supervisors and digital animators, and are seeking to open doors in the Chinese film industry.
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In Aptil, 11 artists and animators read statements at a hearing saying that he leveraged his status in the industry to sexually harrass women for nearly 14 years.
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The animators have always been great at alternating between delivering big action set pieces and providing humor by just showing characters' facial expressions as they stand around arguing.
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Kyoto Animation (often abbreviated KyoAni) gets more distinctive results than most studios in part because unlike in much of the Japanese animation industry, its animators are salaried employees.
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For imaginary creatures such as the Beast, animators use the latest motion-capture technology, which tracks actors' movements and facial expressions and then transposes them onto digital figures.
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After Studio Ghibli shut down (and before it reopened), many of its animators went off and created their own studio, Studio Ponoc, and this is their first picture.
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On PARTY LEGENDS, filmmaker Lance Bangs (of Jackass fame) interviews celebrities about their wildest nights of partying, and reimagines the scenes with help from emerging artists and animators.
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It comes packed with tools like 2D character templates, bone rig editor, facial puppets, and more, to enable inexperienced animators to create professional 2D animations with minimal effort.
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But we wanted to picture what the intro might have looked like had it been made, so our talented team of animators and editors assembled the footage, above.
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But the lack of a double sink is a painful flaw in the animators design, particularly for the House Hunters-verse who require three sinks per annoying person.
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I searched online for likeminded artists, architects, animators and video game designers, and spread the word by holding workshops in art schools about what I wanted to achieve.
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Adult Swim has hired up-and-coming animators to direct non-canonical Rick and Morty adventures for years, but "Bushworld" is one of the largest and grossest yet.
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When that moment was first created by the animators, the developers went back to the in-game version of Winston's lab and smashed the same bit of glass.
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For the most part, Hollywood tends to reduce animated films to products of companies, rather than the work of individual artists (be they directors or writers or animators).
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These scenes were originally played for laughs and titillation, the animators sexualizing the women in Shinji's life as both "fan-service" and to immerse us in Shinji's headspace.
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Animators like Ethan Barnowsky, Mariana Krause, and Owen Davey celebrate the bottom-feeding insects of the see with fun and mesmerizing loops, which you can check out below.
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In reality, Adult Swim hires young animators to use their characters in experimental bumps all the time, and they never have anything to do with the show itself.
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But none of these films gets as dark as Borrowed Time, a short film that Pixar animators Lou Hamou-Lhadj and Andrew Coats made as a side project.
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A handful of actors acted in front of a green screen, in which animators created the massive hanger, layering in various elements such as equipment, vehicles, and troopers.
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Kristen Bell's says the animators behind Disney's "Frozen" may be the film's "unsung heroes," but it's not all work and no play as they often troll the actors.
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Two of the cat characters, "Jon Snow kitty" and "baby Ghost," first graced the animators' shared Instagram two weeks ago, as they awaited the show's season 6 premiere.
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That's a whole lot of CGI to redo on a main character, so the news elicited concerns about animators working overtime to make the movie's fall release date.
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A group of staffers videotaped Buckley and about a dozen other dogs in a warehouse in Los Angeles while they played, creating reference footage for the movie's animators.
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Director Jon Favreau revealed in July that the opening shot of "The Circle of Life" is the only moment of the film that wasn't created by the animators.
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The animators also mastered some factors about water that you&aposd never think of, like how sand looks when it gets wet after getting hit by a wave.
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But Woody's performance has also benefited from the sensitivity of the actor-animators who have taken the trouble to get to know him, and even care about him.
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On Thursday, 217 female and gender nonconforming animators signed their names to an open letter to studio and network execs outlining their demands for an end to such treatment.
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The plans read like a who's who of successful animators, directors, and executive producers who have worked on everything from The Little Mermaid to Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
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Pulp Fiction is far and above these animators' favorite film, and we had to cut a lot to get the two scenes represented here by Pop Aesthete and Hoppip.
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According to Efremov, the concept for the demo began with a goal that has long troubled animators and game designers: building a virtual person that looks and feels real.
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Jury shoots take several days, even weeks, and animators sometimes come back for reshoots because your body was an inch out of alignment, and nobody wants to be sued.
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Back in the early days of 2D Disney movies, animators would draw many still drawings and put them back together to create a smooth, 24 frame-per-second movie.
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Animators will now redesign Sonic before the release of the movie in November, suggesting that on-the-fly editing is becoming a commonplace part of film and television production.
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Now, thanks to simpler, more intuitive tools, technology is becoming less intrusive in the creative process and animators can finally get back to doing what they love: telling stories.
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We can safely assume it won't take over from Vector's built-in personality, which the company spends a lot of time shaping with the help of animators and writers.
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Another vital part of the character-making is rigging, which is the creation of a series of variables on a character that enables the animators to do their job.
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The animators are able to designate ranges for qualities like how fast and how high Cozmo raises its lift, moves its head or eyes, and expresses something using sound.
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Each puppet requires a complicated custom body, handmade clothing, and a rig that can hold the tens of thousands of 3D printed faces the animators swap in and out.
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The new Lion King isn't even like the 1995 movie Babe, where real animals were filmed and then animators used computers to make it seem like they could speak.
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"At some point, one of the animators showed us a design where she had that mouth — once you saw it, you could never un-see it," Mr. Rogen said.
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The company, which the directors founded, has provided a support system for its filmmakers — larger budgets, a pool of staff animators, creative freedom — that is unlikely to be matched.
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Jackass member Chris Pontius talks with some of the animators at Starburns Industries about the process of bringing stories from Eric André, Alia Shawkat, and Kid Ink to life.
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Animators and fans acclaimed the film, but it never saw a theatrical run or home video release in the U.S.; it will finally be distributed by GKIDS next year.
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These artists are all alumni of the animation program at CalArts, a school that produces a number of animators and designers whose names will ultimately appear in film credits.
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At present, you still need human animators and artists to create deepfake-style films, but eventually, technology will surely make it possible to remove humans from the process entirely.
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Mr. Couillard has also devised video games in the past, and many artists using virtual reality seem closer to game designers or cinematic animators than to painters or sculptors.
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It has been six years between "Frozen" and "Frozen II."The animators came up with new types of programs to help them animate elements, such as wind and water.
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But there are some new characters here that posed an even bigger challenge for the animators, and that&aposs because they aren&apost human or creature, but the elements.
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That brilliant combination of factors led to the following genius supercut of every moment from nearly three decades of nerdy, film-loving Simpsons animators paying homage to Stanley Kubrick.
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To highlight the work of female and feminist-identified animators, the Association of Hysteric Curators has organized the Soft Bytes animation festival, featuring the work of dozens of artists.
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It follows that animators from all over the world would relate to Tarantino's style, so we gathered a few of our favorite animated GIFs inspired by his nine-film oeuvre.
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The animators needed to "create a hole" for each falling bit of broken plate, frame by frame, so it would fall in front of Roger's face instead of behind it.
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Alike is a passion project four years in the making by Madrid-based animators Daniel Martínez Lara and Rafa Cano Méndez, who have a combined 30 years in the industry.
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For budding designers, animators, and game developers, the space between "wanting the dream job" and "landing the dream job" can sometimes feel too large to overcome—especially for industry newbies.
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To create him, the filmmakers chose to ignore modern mo-cap techniques in favor of empowering the film's animators to create his distinct movement by hand using traditional keyframe animation.
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Matt Taylor of Titmouse directed the film, giving 22 animators near carte blanche to remix godlike, alcoholic super-scientist Rick Sanchez and his nervous, adolescent grandson Morty into new adventures.
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Animators Lou Hamou-Lhadj and Andrew Coats tell an emotional story about grief in Borrowed Time, following a sheriff in the Old West haunted by memories of a tragic accident.
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After creating a shadowy and fantastical stop-motion animation with Nightlife, wherein beasts traverse the nighttime London landscape, animators Wriggle and Robbins have turned to the Euro 2016 football tournament.
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Performers include Seaton Smith, Phoebe Robinson, Mike Lawrence, Rob Haze, Amber Nelson and Katie McVay; animators include Bryan Brinkman, Casey Safron, Loryn Brantz, Rachel Gitlevich, Nelson Diaz and Dan Pinto.
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Pixar animators developed a novel way to realistically animate flesh and muscle, and demonstrated their techniques using a skeleton hand, a very ripped torso, and various other spooky, disembodied parts.
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Cooper posits that Andromeda is leaning rather heavily on that latter category, but that the intent was likely to have animators do a clean-up pass before the game shipped.
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Rather than a film or television studio, the animators worked for Snapchat — the camera app and social media platform beloved by teenagers and cautiously monitored by pretty much everyone else.
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Anna described "Hot Coals" as a universal story about facing your fears, leavened with the twist at the end (what Snap's animators call a "bonus") when the character catches fire.
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The master butts heads with some overenthusiastic computer animators whose ideas he thinks are repellent — "an insult to life," Miyazaki pronounces them, in one of the movie's most striking scenes.
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Representing a wide swath of countries and media (from traditional animation to stop-motion to cutout animation), these shorts spotlight some of the most vibrant independent animators currently at work.
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Sarah Douglas, CEO of AMV BBDO in London, said her agency is working with directors and animators who can work from home and also expects to use more archive footage.
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For the past two years that they've worked on Anna and Elsa, the animators have been immersed in the Disney universe, where the real world rules and restrictions don't apply.
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Related: This Short Animation Will Make You Quit Your Job Soak Up the Masterful Use of Light in Legendary Anime, 'Akira' Nigerian Animators Are Bringing African Superhero Comics to Life
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With the help of animators Daniel Muñoz and Merielen Burbano, we mapped out the history and future of wireless technology, and while the past is fascinating, the future is mind-boggling.
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The Quantic Dream games are created by dozens of talented programmers, animators, writers, and other creatives who are likely not directly responsible for much of the odious content the games include.
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During the Last of Us Part II panel at E3, Druckmann pointed out that getting the lighting to look right on Dina's hair was a particularly difficult challenge for their animators.
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Founded by animation veterans Bobby Beck (ex-Pixar), Carlos Baena (ex-Pixar) and Shawn Kelly (ex-Industrial Light & Magic), the platform is built with animators and post-production artists in mind.
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It's a little bit like rotoscoping, a technique used by animators to trace over live-action footage, but instead, we're just tracing over the general body outline in our original GIF.
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I had a private table at the Animators Palate (without requesting a private table, guests may dine communally with other cruisers), where I ate the best truffle gnocchi I've ever tasted.
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Notopoulos noted that Disney's animators have also favorited tweets from furry community Twitter users about the film—and that many furries believe Disney purposely made the film to appeal to furries.
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Today, Epic announced an upcoming VR component to its popular Unreal Editor, letting game developers, animators, and other users create and explore their environments through an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.
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"Kyoto Animation is home to some of the world's most talented animators and dreamers - the devastating attack today is a tragedy felt far beyond Japan," Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook tweeted.
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"For years, Kyle has created the world's best-selling Photoshop brushes for professional illustrators, animators and designers," said Maria Yap, Adobe Senior Director of Digital Imaging Product Management, in today's announcement.
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Using one frame from the film, here is a closer look at how the origami sequence came together, including commentary from Mr. Knight and one of the animators, Kevin Parry. 1.
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Consulting anatomy books to understand the properties of a great white shark's body, the animators created a skeleton and a muscle system, layered it with fat, and wrapped it in sharkskin.
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But in one scene, the animators did the opposite: They created virtual skin and blood to simulate a dead whale with a giant, fresh shark bite taken out of its side.
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There are moments of cinematic rigor — when the animators mimic the movements and focal effects of an old-fashioned camera in actual physical space — that will warm any film-geek's heart.
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But I think that while there's great fellowship and a lot of shared animators and talent between those studios, it's also great for both companies to have a little artistic competition.
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Ultimately, Spirited Away showed how breathtaking, heartfelt, and serious animation can be; its lessons ones that Pixar, Disney, and other mainstream animators have still failed to genuinely realize 15 years later.
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The animators have a lot of input on how those controls work, so the more sophisticated the controls are, the better able [they] are to capture nuances that they couldn't before.
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There is no better place to look than the profiles of female illustrators, animators, miniaturists, painters, and jewelers whose masterpieces fill the app and expose you to rainbow-filled worlds of fancy.
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But anime's outward success conceals a disturbing underlying economic reality: Many of the animators behind the onscreen magic are broke and face working conditions that can lead to burnout and even suicide.
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They're the ones who make all the individual drawings after the top-level directors come up with the storyboards and the middle-tier "key animators" draw the important frames in each scene.
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The outlet reports Disney met with Anika Noni Rose, who voices the princess, as well as other animators and black advocacy group Color of Change to collaborate on what changes Tiana needed.
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Netflix's press release explains that Love, Death & Robots is a collection of 18 short films, made by animators and filmmakers around the globe, as the result of an international call for contributions.
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The animations were drawn in layers, and like the efforts to make the characters react to the environment around them, animators made sure that the light would play realistically across the cartoons.
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This one, from animators Carl Jones and Brian Ash, is a particularly stylish, colorful, visually wild piece, that turns Orji into a huge-haired, pencil-limbed take on Garnet from Steven Universe.
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Crafting these contraptions was a balancing act; the robot had to be strong enough to accomplish the task, yet small enough to remain hidden from view once the animators drew over it.
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Then catch the season premiere of PARTY LEGENDS, in which we interview celebrities about their wildest nights out and bring their stories to life with the help of emerging artists and animators.
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Light is one element of a complicated and beautiful movie, but it's an excellent example of how animators can utilize background elements of a film to support and reinforce its underlying tone.
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In order to make the film, Riaz founded Mano Animation Studios, an amalgamation of animators, designers, and producers from Pakistan, Malaysia, the US, and the UK, to pull off the ambitious story.
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Related: Epic Oil Paintings Depict a Superhero in His Elder Years Nigerian Animators Are Bringing African Superhero Comics to Life Here's the $70,000 Superhero Sculpture You Can Buy at the Armory Show
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Much of the heavy lifting is left to his eyes, expertly brought to life by a team of animators from places like Pixar and DreamWorks that Anki now counts among its ranks.
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Party Legends, in case you aren't aware, is our series where we get celebrities to tell us their most epic party stories and then have some of our favorite animators draw them.
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"Animators are sick people," Rogen told the audience, explaining why he actually had to tone down their version of the — spoiler alert — food-on-food orgy near the end of the flick.
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She began to make art in earnest while living in internment camps in California and Arkansas, in 1942-43; she received pointers from several fellow-detainees, who were animators at Walt Disney.
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Disney had imagined an arts school designed specifically to educate new generations of animators, but it wasn't until 1975 that the school began admitting students into a program to teach character animation.
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The 9-minute piece takes its storyline from Beads of Fury, the first installment in the Strike Guard series, and it's drawing global recognition for animators living and working in Nigeria today.
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Eleven years ago, I saw that moss, that water, all drawn, and redrawn, by animators whose names I would never know, and thought: That is the definition of beauty, and of Japan.
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Three moviemakers will be on hand to discuss their work: the animators John R. Dilworth and Gene Barretta and the photographer William Wegman, whose contributions invariably starred his favorite subjects, his Weimaraners.
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"The Animators" covers familiar debut-novel territory: the search for identity, the desire for success, the bewildering experiences of small-town misfits leaving home for the bright lights of New York City.
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If "The Animators" suffers from the debut novelist's curse of trying to do too much, Whitaker's obvious talent with dialogue and establishing a sense of place prevents it from feeling weighed down.
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More natural-seeming conversations in virtual environments, perhaps, but maybe also by animators who'd like to base the motions of their characters in real life without doing motion capture of their own.
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As The New York Times recently reported, the streamer has been amassing a number of creators and executives as part of its counterattack strategy, including former Pixar and Disney animators, and others.
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During a one-day bootcamp event in LA, participants heard from animators, studio executives, and writers who were mostly women and people of color that share the vision of an inclusive animation industry.
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The images were provided by Getty Images, the campaign's visual partner, and animators from the films Planet of the Apes and Avatar worked with creative agency Edelman Deportivo to bring her to life.
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It was clearly spending quite a bit as well, having hired composers and former Pixar and Dreamworks animators to more fully realize the personality of Cozmo and its more adult-focused followup, Vector.
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The good news is that in the more than 20 years since Evangelion originally aired, it's become a seminal work of anime, and it inspired a lot of different animators, writers, and directors.
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Puga said he had in-depth talks with writers and animators about how it was growing up as a first-generation Mexican American in East Los Angeles and how his family has evolved.
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Apple explained that USDZ was built in collaboration with Pixar animators and is an open file format that can be used for creating and sharing 3D augmented reality media in a single file.
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That's not all -- he got to preview a future episode and spend time with director John Holmquist along with writers and animators, who transformed Chance into his own character to join the Griffins.
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It also brings a real physicality to the animation, as it pays homage to the work of animators like Stan Brakhage and Len Lye who pioneered techniques like scratching and manipulating film stock.
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That's a lot of work, but on the plus side, the animators behind "Oh My Gourd" will probably have enough pumpkin seeds to last them until October rolls around again next year.[YouTube]
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On PARTY LEGENDS, the Kid Mero, ATL Twins, Prince Markie Dee, and TLC's Chilli tell us about their wildest nights out, and we bring them to life with the help of emerging animators.
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Mashup: The Birth of Modern Culture incorporates painters, ceramicists, illustrators, animators, filmmakers, architects, graphic designers, musicians, and choreographers; artists from all over the world, working in just about every medium you can imagine.
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"The Little Mermaid" codirector, Ron Clements, walks INSIDER through early sketches and concept art for the sea witch by legendary Disney animators, including Glen Keane and even "The Lion King" codirector, Rob Minkoff.
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Bennett, whose own company is involved in animating his books for short films and mobile apps, often cites animators like Catmull, Walt Disney and "all those guys over there at Pixar" as inspiration.
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Jonathan Burton, the brains behind Carbot, funded it with a Indiegogo campaign that amassed almost $99,000 last year, allowing Burton to support a team of two animators, three developers, and a project lead.
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The plucky little robot was the result of large investment, including the hiring of ex-Pixar and Dreamworks animators brought on board to craft a high range of emotions in the robot's eyes.
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In "Frozen," much of the land is covered in snow, so the animators went to Cheyenne, Wyoming, to walk through waist-deep snow and see what it would be like for the characters.
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Nowadays, a color restoration of the film continues to circulate: Ninety years later, Reiniger, who would have turned 117 today, still carries a strong legacy among animators, even in movies like Harry Potter.
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Once we get the piece together, we give those shots to the visual effects animators, who basically animate what they imagine is a heavier, slower, and stronger creature than what a human would be.
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After animators draw up the show using 3-D design software, each individual drone gets assigned to act as a kind of aerial pixel, filling in the 3-D image against the night sky.
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Animators use objects to push groups of pins through the screen at various depths, with the shadows cast by the pins producing a wide range of tonal gradations depending on how far they protrude.
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Animation is generally trending toward more big-budget 22016D CGI films, but like other independent animators inspired by Miyazaki, such as Usman Riaz, Liang and Zhang are dedicated to the hand-drawn animation style.
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The uproar inspired Paramount to delay the movie and change the design of Sonic, a $5 million decision that undoubtedly forced a lot of animators to work a lot more than they planned on.
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Animators and designers visited the park to explore the settings (like the Disneyland Dream Suite, which inspired the princess room in Ralph), and speak with the "face characters" who play these characters each day.
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Dig into the full delightfully tasty and morbid Cream below: To learn about Cream and its many animators, visit the The Animation Workshop/VIA University College's website, here and read the film's description, here.
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Autodesk, the provider of modeling software for architects and animators, said Monday that a new service is now available for customers in the entertainment industry to more quickly and efficiently render 3-D images.
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So we had to put a lot of time into establishing these characters, and how they move, and what their specific character traits are, so all the animators could create a sense of solidarity.
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Since the animated movie was just that — animated — the writers and animators were at liberty to include colors, expressions, and more human-like behavior that would be harder to achieve in the real savanna.
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We expect an uptick in high quality Totoro tribute films and animations inspired by the semi-retired animation legend while young animators are still in a position to play around and hone their styles.
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LOS ANGELES — On a cool, sunny day in April, a short Frisbee toss from Venice Beach, a team of seven animators sat around a conference table, workshopping a storyboard from an unusual cartoon series.
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The video was released almost simultaneously in Arabic and English, with subtitles in Farsi, Hebrew, Mandarin, Russian, Turkish and other languages, so its animators probably also had the help of a team of linguists.
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This story gives a behind-the-scenes look on the real-life abuelita who happily displayed her wrinkles, under-eye circles and flabby arms to give animators the realistic details they were looking for.
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Related: Jake Fried's Intricate Layerlapses | Monday Insta Illustrator Watch A Cerebral Animation Illustrated With Ink, Coffee, And Whiteout What We Learned From the Animators of Dan Deacon's "When I Was Done Dying" Music Video
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The final vote is opened up to the whole Academy, not just animators, and so the winner is almost invariably a CGI blockbuster, with Disney/Pixar alone winning nine of the past 10 awards.
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Bleacher Report's animators were already producing a full season, and any additional scenes or episodes involving Colangelo and the 76ers would have to be written, voiced and animated on top of everybody's regular work.
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Mr. Scott noted, "There are moments of cinematic rigor — when the animators mimic the movements and focal effects of an old-fashioned camera in actual physical space — that will warm any film-geek's heart."
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Characters in Studio Ghibli features have a particular way of moving that is more in tune with Japanese body language, and on the whole, animators use fewer drawings per second than in Western animation.
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To make the backgrounds pop and appear 3D like the characters, the animators used several different techniques, such as multiplanes, where you have layers on top of layers to give the illusion of depth.
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One of the animators stood up in the back of the room -- he had had a couple of drinks -- and he said, 'It's going to run for a hundred years,' and then fell down.
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Everything in this movie is terrifying: the horse that gets turned into glue... the rebellious goat that speaks out against the totalitarian regime... hell, these animators even made a talking Border Collie vaguely spooky.
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It's been confirmed that Rick and Morty are living in a simulation—at least in the 16-bit world animators Paul Robertson and Ivan Dixon created for the hit Adult Swim show's titular duo.
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Willis tells The Creators Project that, over the the last 18 months, his team of animators, designers, assistants and a "studio hand" have significantly increased the amount and quality of papercrafted objects in their animations.
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Their process affords their characters the emotional depth and realism found in films like Chris Milk and VRSE's Clouds Over Sidra, while maintaining the freedom to build enjoyed by video game designers and 3D animators.
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"In order to achieve further development of the animation industry, there is an urgent need to improve the economic base of animators and radically reform the profit structure of the entire industry," the report stated.
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Having worked with more complicated animation products in the past, I could see how iClone Character Creator could save animators days, if not weeks of production, and at $99 a seat, could also save money.
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For Hino and Level-5, working alongside the talented animators at Ghibli has had a profound influence on how the studio goes about creating its games, especially when it comes to the seemingly small details.
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If an actor misses where the eyeline would be for a character, the Roger Rabbit animators are constantly adjusting the action—making Roger stand his tippy toes or point a finger in the actors face.
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And there's a lot of great animators who came on to transition to motion capture, but we're still doing a lot of hand animated stuff and creatures because you just can't mo-cap certain things.
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It's rotoscoped, meaning that Linklater filmed it and then had animators paint over the frames; the process embellishes scenes with odd flourishes that seem like "reality," and the film is all the better for it.
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Adobe today announced that it has acquired Allegorithmic, the French company behind the Substance tools for creating textures that are widely used by AAA game creators, as well as visual effects artists, animators and designers.
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Artists ranging from streetwear mogul Shepard Fairey to the indie GIF animators showcased throughout this piece are drawn to the imagery, and meme-makers have adapted it to countless a-ha moments and toxic conspiracies.
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On a new episode of PARTY LEGENDS, Clare O'Kane, Artie Lange, Mark Gonzales, and Die Antwoord's Ninja tell us about their wildest nights out, brought to life with the help of emerging artists and animators.
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Welcome to the world of Overwatch porn, in which budding animators take the colorful heroes of Blizzard's game and create videos of them giving blowjobs, engaging in anal sex, and, well, filling in the blanks.
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A year later, in 1976, Burton joined the new animator program, becoming one of a now-legendary era of CalArts animators who would collectively go on to profoundly impact the next four decades of animation.
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The second episode of our new show Party Legends—where we get celebrities to tell us their wildest party stories and have the best of the best animators draw them—aired on VICELAND last night.
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In reality, Dalmatian dogs are white with black spots, but in order for the color of the dogs to look good on camera, the animators used a light grey paint to create the dogs' coats.
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In addition to scenes of Matt drawing, this is best accomplished by the absolutely gorgeous animation sequences that Jones and a team of animators created of Pepe and the rest of the Boy's Club characters.
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The form's historically hand-drawn and meticulously assembled components remind audience and animators alike that what we're watching — a film strip, a reel of videotape, a disc — is a physical object, not just an illusion.
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I remember very early on in the show having a meeting with Mike and Lisa [Hanawalt, BoJack's production designer] and the other designers and animators, and saying that this is not a status quo show.
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Animators Christy Karacas and Simon Wilches give this relatively mundane story a Bizarro-world look, with Berg and show co-creator Bill Hader turning into two-dimensional characters to slide around theaters and sneak into classes.
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In the end, the characteristic feature of this technique is that the characters are born out of the meeting between the voices of the children, the materiality of the puppets, and the talents of the animators.
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On this week's PARTY LEGENDS, Big Boi, Nina Tarr, Kim Gordon, and Ghostface Killah drop by to share some of the wildest nights they've ever had, and we reimagine them with the help of emerging animators.
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In that same restless, experimental spirit, Simpson has commissioned a kind of "video album" for his fourth LP "Sound & Fury," asking Japanese animators to come up with their own interpretations of some of his heaviest songs.
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This could lead to more competition and investment in the shows companies license, which in turn could hopefully improve the pay and working conditions of animators and other production staff who are already overworked and underpaid.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Coming off solo shows at MoMA PS1 and Art Dubai, Moroccan-born Meriem Bennani is emerging as one of the most original artists and animators of her post-internet generation.
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If you look at something like Chappie or District 9, those would be cases of what the the animation industry terms as rotomation, which means the animators are trying to trace animate what the actor is doing.
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Related: Inside Adult Swim's New Rotoscoped Sci-Fi Comedy 'Dream Corp LLC' Inside the Crazed World of Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio What We Learned From the Animators of Dan Deacon's "When I Was Done Dying"
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In the end, all it tells us is that – as my colleague Ali Foreman put it – a whole lot of animators spent a whole lot of time watching a whole lot of videos of cats throwing up.
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Animators David and Henry Dutton recreated the hit Netflix show for the YouTube channel CineFix as if it were an 8-bit video game, following everything from Will's disappearance to Eleven's makeover to the battling the Demogorgon.
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The Australian digital production studio is home to the creatives behind movies like Happy Feet and The Lego Movie, and it's decided to start molding the type of savvy animators the industry will need in the future.
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Rigging is akin to a puppeteer attaching strings and sticks to a physical puppet and then using them to move the character in time with voice recording (most animators record the voices before moving on to animation).
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Most of the pieces presented came from Disney movies, such as Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and Pinocchio, while others included work from famous animators, like Eyvind Earle, who helped stylize some of the popular films.
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The sets are fantastically detailed little worlds, built from foam, paint, wood, and resin, and designed to look seamless when assembled, but to pull apart easily so animators can access any point of them for a scene.
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The frantic, last-minute character redesign seemed like a no-win situation back in May, but it seems like Paramount (and the team of animators who were presumably working tirelessly this whole time) somehow pulled it off.
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If Disney made an animated film about them, the animators would render the ballerina as a pretty, long-lashed sea otter, sleekly twirling in the waves, whereas Eugene would be—he didn't know—a South American tapir.
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But after so many years of CGI animators trying to mimic convincing human faces and not entirely succeeding, it's still unsettling to see a character hovering this close to realistic, while staying this far away from it.
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But many of the people who created those videos, who grew from anonymous comedians and animators into Vine stars with millions of followers, have been branching out into more profitable territories, like Instagram and YouTube, for months.
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But there's already been a fair amount of cross-pollination between the two shows, including Rick and Morty performances from My Little Pony's Tara Strong and Patton Oswalt, along with a number of animators and production folks.
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They're both a real species and the clever and comical furry creatures of Japanese folklore that star in this 1994 movie from Studio Ghibli, the powerhouse film studio founded by the animators Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata.
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Video producers and animators are reading and writing from really big files constantly, and if even one bit of data is corrupted in that process, it can crash your workflow and set you back hours or days.
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"I find that you have this, like, subconscious thing that you know that the only thing they're going to be sort of experiencing is your voice, and then the animators kind of take over from there," explained Timberlake.
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Garry's Mod for Half-Life 2 comes to mind, and GTA V has its own small community of animators churning out scenes from Deadpool, Suicide Squad, The Purge, or I Am Legend with choppier characters and desynced audio.
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The art style's courtesy of Studio Ghibli, the animation house Miyazaki co-founded, also go a long way in differentiating each classic and pegging them to the evolving toolset animators have used since his first film in 1979.
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Abraham Kawa, a professor of Cultural Studies at the University of the Aegean, worked together with established animators Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna to tell a much more poignant and authentic tale than what is typically told.
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As it's animations became both a laughingstock and a point of controversy, other animators with industry experience started sharing their expert opinions for exactly how and why Andromeda often looked like the community theater version of Mass Effect.
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This time the comedians will be Drew Anderson, Anthony DeVito, Ayo Edebiri, Katie Hannigan, Andy Haynes and Shalewa Sharpe, and they will be paired with the animators Bryan Brinkman, Jason Chatfield, Rachel Gitlevich, Chrissy Fellmeth and Dan Pinto.
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We've listed some of the strangest predictions the cartoon's writers have made since the show's launch in 1989, from Homer discovering the Higgs boson to animators drawing The Shard in London almost 20 years before it was built.
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What it's about: The story of Simba's rise from young lion cub to heroic ruler is iconic, as are the Disney animators' brilliant visuals that accompany some of the best tunes to ever appear in an animated film.
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Remy's first adventure in combining one type of food with another (a bit of cheese with a strawberry) is a jazzy bit of synesthesia, and the joy that Pixar's animators felt in illustrating it just leaps off the screen.
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Paulsen recalls taking it all in: Spielberg, the animators, script writers like Sherri Stoner, songwriters like Randy Rogel (who Paulsen now tours with, performing songs from the show), and co-stars like Billy West, Maurice LaMarche, and Tress MacNeille.
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It takes a village to raise a child, and it takes a team of 22 unrelated animators free-associating their thoughts on the Rick and Morty universe to top the wild shit we've seen on Adult Swim's hit series.
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The process is incredibly laborious: On Kubo, 1503 animators worked simultaneously on their own scenes, each trying to achieve the company goal of 4.3 seconds of animation per week, and more often, only hitting about three seconds per week.
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The film's animators relied on a computer to handle something computers are very good at — creating an overwhelming sense of hundreds upon hundreds of creatures rushing at the screen — while using traditional animation to shepherd the scene's emotional core.
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" Mr. Goldberg joked about the twisted humor of animators: "I'm about to have a child," he said, "and the only rule I have moving into being a parent is that my child will never date a disgusting, disgusting animator.
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But Snapchat's animators here in Los Angeles have already created the medium's first hit series, thanks to uniquely appealing main characters that are flipping, dancing and pratfalling their way into the hearts of the company's 191 million daily users.
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They're photographers and animators, part of a vibrant creative community that can be overshadowed in the US by stale tropes or, more recently, rhetoric about strong-arming the nation into building an expensive and ineffective wall along the border.
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The series, created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy (both of "BoJack Horseman"), uses rotoscoping, a technique where animators trace over real-life images — when combined with themes centering the mind and body, it's a very trippy experience.
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Thanks to the seemingly limitless reach of social media, fandoms have brought people from opposite ends of the world together, influenced album sales, tipped votes, set records, sent animators back to the drawing board, and staged coordinated and sometimes personal attacks.
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Several production cels — which are transparent sheets of celluloid that animators use to draw objects/cartoons on — are expected to draw in Disney fans during the auction, with cels from "Pinocchio", "Snow White" and "Peter Pan" all being auctioned off.
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In part two, they discuss the show's animation choices, including how it's changed from season 1 in response to viewer feedback, how the animators use camera rules to create more realistic action, and why every episode ends with Easter eggs.
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Miyazaki, who co-founded Ghibli (along with fellow animators Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki, and financier Yasuyoshi Tokuma), has retired, un-retired, half-retired, and floated vague plans to retire more times than Jay Z and Michael Jordan put together.
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Not to discount the work of the Apes' CG animators, seeing Notary's uncanny ape impersonation coming from a flesh and blood human actually gave me a greater impression of the subtleties that motion capture tech is picking up these days.
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Even though the 50-foot high Giant-Man was totally digital, it was the footage of Paul Rudd playing the scene — Earl describes it as "kind of like a big, drunk baby" — that provided the direction for the animators to follow.
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While the company attracts a plethora of photographers, videographers, illustrators and animators, Adobe is best known for its image editing software, Photoshop, and for introducing the portable document format (PDF), which has become an internationally accepted medium for sharing electronic documents.
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At the end of the day, the winner will sit down with one of the BoJack animators, so they can "draw a picture of you or a pet or the animal of your choosing" that will wind up in the show.
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And if you need more stop-motion content to keep you going, check out the work of director PES, considered one of the best animators in stop-motion film today, or Laika's upcoming stop-motion film Kubo and the Two Strings.
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His co-star was a dot made by a laser pointer, a stand-in for his "best friend," Blue, the waggy puppy who would be added later by animators, with a subtle 3-D revamp to increase her cuddle factor.
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Animators clearly made an thoughtful effort to represent people from a lot of different backgrounds, and it seems that the animated division of Disney is going to be on the forefront of diversity on the network, at least for now.
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HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Dozens of animators work into the night in India's southern city of Hyderabad, fueled by caffeine and huddled over computer screens in a darkened studio to put the finishing touches on India's biggest and most ambitious film.
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In peeling back the layers of what makes these films so beloved, Miyazaki's vision first comes to mind, but the team of animators he oversees and the software that holds the whole crazy machine together are the unsung heroes behind them.
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You could sense the animators racing to keep up with his vocal switchbacks: his Jack Nicholson, his Groucho Marx, his Peter Lorre, and—believe it or not—his William F. Buckley, Jr. Little of that fissile exhilaration survives in Ritchie's film.
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Clicking the play button on the doodle prompts a multi-layered, paper mandala animation video created by two female duos: Julie Wilkinson and Joyanne Horscroft of Makerie Studio and animators Marion Willam and Daphne Abderhalden, according to a news release.
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The show continues to be an amazing animation showcase, and watching it often feels like the animators at Bones, the studio that animated both seasons, are showing off and having a lot of fun with what they get to draw.
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In case you're not a total animation nerd, rotoscoping is when animators trace live-action footage, frame-by-frame, to create a moving image that's more realistic than purely hand-drawn cartoons but more cartoonish than a live-action movie.
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So, right up until August of this year, Weta's animators studied Smith's emoting frame by frame, beat for beat, and then tried to manually massage and coax the same out of Junior, while striving to maintain the illusion of unposed spontaneity.
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Today Patreon's ranks are full of musicians, podcasters, gamers, animators, illustrators, authors, photographers, and the like, and Conte's ambitions for the company have grown—as Silicon Valley ambitions have a way of doing—into a promise of sweeping societal change.
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To be able to direct that side of the film, the technological side, all I had to do was talk about the emotion I wanted, and the animators would go do their magic and come back and show me incredible stuff.
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There's a reason for Undone's distinctive visuals: They're the product of rotoscoping, a process by which actors are filmed on sets, then drawn over by animators, which creates a world that is not quite real but not quite imaginary, either.
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On the first film, the models were the best we could do, and they were better than anyone else's, but the animators still had to break the models in order to get them to do what they wanted to do.
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Disney animators hit the drawing board again on Disney's first African-American princess after internet backlash pointed out how the Princess and the Frog character appeared to look different in a teaser for the upcoming movie, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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But the bigger issue was that the animators — most of whom were white — were so anxious to avoid making Miles seem like a caricature of a black-Latino kid from Brooklyn, they ended up not making any bold choices with him at all.
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Started in 2013, the annual collaboration between designers, animators, and creative programmers offers a yield of pun-filled shorts that show us the diverse places one might find a yule log, from deep under the sea to the time of the dinosaurs.
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This dramatic moment is the climax of the episode, and since it's supposed to be a digital world, the animators wanted to play around a bit, so they used a technique known a paka paka, where two colors flash rapidly on the screen.
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Here, Animation Rigging Supervisor Oliver Jones and his team were able to build a sliding system of pulleys that let animators move the skeleton's arms smoothly and freely, then step on a floor pad to lock them precisely into place for each shot.
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Mr. Pryce and the animators he hired — "If I didn't pay for this myself, nobody else was going to," he said — adapted "Kulipari" from a trilogy of young adult novels he co-wrote after his plans for a frog war film went nowhere.
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Entitled "Tale of Tales," it was made by Yuri Norstein, the doyen of Russian animators, and, starting March 13th, it shows at Film Forum for a week, together with "Rezo," a cartoon documentary about the Georgian filmmaker Rezo Gabriadze, a master puppeteer.
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Mr. Brodax put together a team of writers and animators who, despite constant friction and turmoil and a slender budget of $19803 million, created a small miracle: a Popsicle-colored fantasia devoted to peace, love and the thrilling pulse of the Beatles' music.
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And there's almost always been a bonus cherry on top: a short animated film that played before the feature and often contained some of the funniest, freshest, and sometimes most poignant storytelling of the year, giving space for Pixar's animators to experiment.
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Intriguing feline characters appear in several films from the acclaimed Japanese animators at Studio Ghibli, and this 1995 feature has two: a mysterious cat that lures the teenage heroine, Shizuku, to an antiques store, and the Baron, a cat figurine she finds there.
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It's teeming with Pixar-esque elements — cute animals, a serrated premise about the pains of love encased in a sweet, harmless-looking package — and takes place in a mundane, street-level world made magical by a team of animators' collective imagination and skill.
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Kyoto Animation Staff — Perhaps no arts tragedy this year matched the sheer matched the sheer horror or violent toll of the arson attack on Kyoto Animation, the progressive Japanese animation studio known for its trailblazing shows and films and championing women animators.
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When asked, most video creators and animators were fine with a Mac Pro supporting the latest NVIDIA RTX 2080 GPUs, but for true workstation performance, Bolido says he thinks Apple should support even beefier NVIDIA GPUs, such as the Quadro series that starts at $4,000.
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This huge collection of not suitable for kids screenshots raises the question: who is more responsible for these naughty frames, the dirty minded people pausing cartoons at the wrong time or the equally dirty minded animators putting this stuff in there in the first place?
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Shingo Adachi, an animator and character designer for Sword Art Online, a popular anime TV series, said the talent shortage is a serious ongoing problem — with nearly 200 animated TV series alone made in Japan each year, there aren't enough skilled animators to go around.
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Stratton, too, champions his animators in this regard, asserting that their ability to convey such a tale of badassery through actions and motions alone gave them the courage to return Doom to roots that would normally feel out of place in a modern game.
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To help the animators get past this block, Persichetti said he screened the film Get Out (which had recently opened at the time) to show the team how director Jordan Peele took advantage of Daniel Kaluuya's subtly emotional performance in how he'd structure a scene.
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Just days after the crowdfunding site Patreon's announcement of upcoming changes to its credit card processing fees — which was widely lambasted by the artists, animators, podcasters, and creators who earn money on the platform — the company said today it is abandoning the new plan.
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However, big stars like Ellen DeGeneres, Diane Keaton, Idris Elba and Willem Dafoe are very expensive, so for the early stages of the production, Pixar uses "scratch voice" — someone from the production team who voices the character so the animators have something to animate to.
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The film's eclectic, ambitious, constantly shifting visuals — which range from deliberately cartoony to abstract and psychedelic — are likely to help inspire a new wave of animators to start pushing past the Pixar Animation house style that so many animation studios are now rigorously emulating.
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"We cannot do the fantastic things, based on the real, unless we first know the real," he once wrote, by way of explaining why, in 1929, he began driving his animators to a studio in downtown Los Angeles for night classes in life drawing.
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The folding of the paper had to look real only from the camera's point of view, so the animators, rather than creating real origami, cut out shapes and discreet bits of folded paper that would appear to form out of a single sheet. 3.
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By day, the half-built palace, an arena, the torso of a statue and a stone temple flanked by blue screens don't look sufficiently formidable, so the team of nearly 80 animators has been given the task of fleshing out the heft and detail.
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We can have all of these different animations, but there comes a point where we have to have it all done, and we only have so much money to pay the animators, so we have to be careful that we don't run over on anything.
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There's a fitting, goofy grace to Early Man being rendered in old-school plasticine stop-motion animation: a tale about man's earliest ancestors, told in a form so ancient you can occasionally see, like little fossils, the imprints of the animators' thumbs on the characters.
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For game developers and film animators, there are plenty of improved technologies on display in the short movie to get excited about; things like 4D capture and what Unity calls a "high definition render pipeline," which essentially means higher quality shadows, reflections and other important visual effects.
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Of course, if you've played any modern game, you may find that many do already — but this is painstaking work accomplished by animators working from libraries of motions, linking together all kinds of contingencies — what if she raises her bow as she's going up stairs and crouching?
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We invited her to Pixar twice to do dumpling-making classes for the crew because I really wanted the animators and the effects artists to touch the dough and fold it, and watch my mom make it, so we could replicate her technique exactly on-screen.
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The second edition of OKgrl features an ongoing collaboration with various creatives and forefront contemporary pop icons such as singer/songwriter Shamir; UK singer, artist, and photographer Hannah Diamond; artist and art director James Orlando; fashion designer Jeremy Scott; animators Reed + Rader; singer Liz Y2K; and more.
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All of it will later be polished to a high sheen, the footage handed over to editors and animators who will spend the next year and change optimizing each stride and snarl until the finished version vaults out of the savanna and past the uncanny valley.
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In the original, nearly every heroine was the exact same size and shape, with matching faces and swimsuit-model bodies (which made it easier for the animators, not to mention the folks who made the toys, which were really what that original show was all about).
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