Day 198

Wow! I went to a screening today with a Q&A session afterwards with John Lasseter(!) at the BFI Southbank cinema. It was really interesting. We didn't have tickets but they had reserve tickets on a first come first serve basis and we went down there about 3 hours early and ended up with front row tickets. The screened the new Toy Story: Hawaiian Vacation short too.





I did some sketching whilst we waited:







I did some other drawing tonight for Cat and Moth, but I'm not going to post it up :D

Oh and the BFI also had Disney 50 on display and had some concept art etc.









And it rained a lot today:



I also did this next 5 shot exercise suggested by an animator from Pixar, Emma Coats. Here is the original photo.

Day 189

Blimey, can't believe it's July already! And it's Friday...again! Crumbs, time is dissolving.

So exciting progression on the Cat, saw some test render's today, for ideas of the overall look of the piece. So we'll see how that translates. Hopefully I can get a big chunk done this weekend.

There was a great article, that I read yesterday, about staying motivated once you reach your goal, here on kennyroy.com . Not sure if you have to be a member to read it or not though.

Also, on the blog, this great short film called Blik. I love the style and the simple yet very effective story telling.

Here is the sound clip for the animation I want to do. It's a good website for a mixture of well known and not so well known films for some inspiration :)

Article on Toy Story shorts.

Some sketches from the day:




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