Linky winks

Stuck for drawing ideas? generate a scenario here: 1000 things to draw

Another great online life drawing tool! Creates you little life drawing sessions with references, if you are not able to get out to a real life class: quickposes.com

Should I work for free? NO!

Charlie Kaufman: Screenwriting lecture

BUG - great inspirational videos to get those creative juices flowing

Kenny Roy's website is filling up fast! If you become a free trial member you can get a free day for every @sk video mail question you send it! So if you send in 30 questions, you'd get another free month! It's got some great content, definitely worth a look.

Need to work out a timezone to work out your class times if you've joined a new animation school? Use world time buddy.

Rad Sechrist Drawing Demo

Bodies in Motion

10 top insults from movieclips.com

Brendan Body's Flight tutorial - this is a MUST! It's brilliant and very clear.

Great little short about being an animator done in stop-motion by Bruna Berford

Stop Motion - Occupation: Animator from Bruna Berford on Vimeo.

TED talk - what makes a hero?

Playblasts and video reference viewer in Maya 

All links collected via wonderful colleagues, blogs,  and friends

BUG

Adam Buxton's BUG

We went to another episode of Adam Buxton's BUG at the BFI last night, courtesy of the fella! Last time was a special, and this time was an episode, so a slightly different setup  but with still a super amount of inspiring material. I've including a bunch of links, that Adam showed, that you should really wrap your eyes around. It's a combination of clips from both of the shows we saw:

Jack - Breach

Breach / Jack from riffraff films on Vimeo.

Arctic Monkeys - Do I wanna know?

Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? from David Wilson on Vimeo.

Satellites - 'Wasteland'

Professor Kilq - Wire and Flashing Lights

'Sweater' by Filip Sterckx for Willow - using projection techniques to give the illusion of different environments but actually in one room on a travelator.

'Remedy' by Filip Sterckx for Willow - projecting onto sculpture

'Cirrus' By cyriak for Bonobo

Adam Butxon 'Counting Song' by cyriak

'Wasting my younger years' - London Grammar - using pinhole cameras to create a type of bullet time

'Moving' - by MPC for Travis 

If you would like more updates from Adam, check him out on twitter

Remember to get inspired!

You better be getting inspired...

Have you remembered to get inspired recently?

A few videos below to help you out....



Kina Grannis - In Your Arms from Greg Jardin on Vimeo.

Awesome Disney Pixar intern reel


Animation Reel from Uri Lotan on Vimeo.

and some funny use of lip syncing...

There were some more videos I wanted to share, but they aren't uploaded yet. The first and third video were all shown at the Best of BUG show with Adam Buxton. Adam's show is all about music videos, so it's a great place to find aniamted music videos, some really interesting work and interesting directors. He also had a special guest, Edgar Wright. Edgar showed the proof of concept for the upcoming Marvel film Ant Man. It looked really cool! There was a clip online, but they might hve all been taken down by now. We only have to wait a couple of years :D. Keep on searching!