Animation News

New Yogurt for Animation

Yogurt Technologies had shut down it's site for a time and had posted a site in Turkish for the past few months. The English site seems to be up now. They seem to be focusing more on production and consulting. It's not clear if they are still selling their animation software "Archer" or if it's gone underground and a proprietary leverage.

Check out my Tools section for more software

Calvin and Hobbes Movie???

Bill Waterson, author of Calvin and Hobbes, has had a history of refusing to allow his work to be animated. Now a rumor (which I'm spreading) is going around that a movie is going to be made!! Most fans would love to see the little devil-genius boy come alive, as well as his furry sidekick, but is this only a rumor or the real thing? Details at Plastic.com

We've gone Blog

Much like the rest of the site I'll be converting all news to Blogger format

Old News

06/02/02

Sorry for the slight hiccup in updates. I've spend the last few month in an internship at WildBrain and finished just in time to get 30 days notice. I'm now living in Houston Texas where the rent is much cheaper.

02/23/02

View a quicktime movie of Pandora by Nina Paley. The first IMAX film to be made by drawing on 70mm film! See an interview at Apple's website

02/16/02

The broken link to the Loomis book has been fixed. Go to books or drawing to see it! This book costs $600 used!

02/14/02

The company known for Expression 2 uses the technology to make animated movies.

02/12/02

Broken Saint's website mentioned on NPR.

02/03/02

Added a book section the links on the left.

02/01/02

If you get a chance you MUST try to see "Beauty and the Beast" in Imax at they Sony Metreon! In the previews was the 5 minute intro to Lion King Imax!

AdamSandler.com has images from the animation "8 Crazy Nights"

Hollywood Reporter has an interview with Don Bluth about his upcomming Dragon's Lair the MOVIE!

01/28/02

Legos as pixels? Take a new look at an amazing way to animate with White Stripe's video Fell In Love With A Girl.

01/24/02

Cracking Toast! Aardman Studios will be releasing 1min originals of Wallace & Grommit on the net! [Link]

The list of links is getting long enough to where I'll be breaking the page into several pages. Be sure to suggests links and or categories! Added two new links to animators.

01/16/02

First day of class today was fine! Instructor Tony Claar started us in the principles of animation. Everything will be done on good 'ol fashioned paper!

The official text book will be the Preston Blair book which can be found on-line here

01/3/02

Happy New Year! What a better way to start it than by finding the PERFECT animation book. "The Animator's Survivat Kit" by Richard Williams puts all others to shame! Written by the animation director of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", this book contains material found no where else. Easy to understand and covering begining and advanced animation. Cut out the best parts of Preston Blair's book and "The Animator's Workbook" and you have this!

12/23/01

The Sundance Film festival had a huge wash of animation this year!

12/16/01

Looks like my community college (Vista) will be offering a course in "Drawing for Cell Animation". More details soon!

09/10/01

Axa software seems to have moved so I updated the link. Also Animo now exports to Flash... seems like most software are taking that trend! Also I'm going to start to ad banner links to my favorite sites or those that I find most usefull. Let me know if anyone minds the bandwidth.

09/01/01

Allright! Got a custom built animation table from someone in the Bay Area. If anyone needs an animation desk of any size. Please e-mail me for more info!

08/18/01

After a few months down-time. The BAAG is in the bag once again.
COMING SOON! Toon up 2001 in San Francisco