SynchroLux

One of my AM students pointed out that San Jose State University is going to be offering a class in Physics for Animators. In a bit of serendipity, the professor of that class commented on my last post, of Hancock violating Newton’s Third Law of Motion, and provided a link to the program’s website:

Being a former physics major has certain drawbacks. Oh, it’s a tremendous advantage in understanding how and why things move the way the do when I’m animating. But it makes it hard to enjoy some animation, when the most basic principles of physics are grotesquely violated. For example, why does this look so wrong? [ [...]

Yesterday we memorialized those who died during war, and today I want to memorialize one of the many unsung animation artists who make up our industry. I got the sad news a couple of months ago that June Nam (born Myung Nam Park) died on Feb. 24. It’s taken me a while to gather together [...]

Last night the Academy (you know, the Oscar folks) staged the 12th Marc Davis Celebration of Animation at the beautiful Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The subject was Drawing on the Future: Mentorship in Animation (a subject near and dear to my heart). My friend Charles Solomon hosted four panelists: Andreas Deja, Pete Docter, [...]

I went to the Pasadena City College Flea Market this morning and got a reminder of the power of providing interesting context and specificity to our animation. I’ve been thinking about those topics as my AM class 4 students begin blocking their two-character dialog tests.  I try to push them to go as deeply as [...]