Posts from — September 2010

Film something. Project it onto some paper or view it through an animation cell. Now, trace and draw over what you’re looking at, frame by frame. Hey, you’re rotoscopin’ now, baby!

I love rotoscoped animation for that odd, almost too-fluid sense of movement that it imparts. It’s been used extensively in film, television, music videos and video games, and I thought I’d talk about it a bit, and share some of my favourite examples of the technique. Take it away, me! [Read more →]

Here at AWS there’s a lot of jazz about these computers with their megabytes and such. It’s enough to make a man grimace with techno-angst.

Obviously, Adam and the boys mainly focus their efforts on 2 and 3D Animation, and what with the world being the way it is, this is all done with horrible whirring boxes of inevitable doom that one day will rise up to kill us all. Good one, Adam. Hasn’t the man seen Terminator?

Which brings me to my love of one of the oldest of schools of animation, stop-motion. A while back on the AWS Facebook page I introduced stop-motion Sundays, linking to clips and short films featuring wobbly, jerky models.

Now realistically, I’ll not bore you with a how-it’s-done, as every man and his cat can work that out. Instead, I thought I’d showcase a few videos from three of my favourite stop-motion animators
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+ Considering the release of AWS’s take on The Owl and the Pussycat a few weeks ago, and bearing in mind that the studio is primarily comprised of 3D animators, I thought I’d talk to AWS animator Trent Leighton about his experience branching out into the realm of 2D.

2D animation often appears less complex than it’s 3D counterpart. But is that the reality?

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