30min interview with Walt Disney

Found this nice 30min interview with Walt Disney over at Cartoonbrew. Check it out, really nice.
Walt Disney interview

Pixar's "UP"

This looks great! Really looking forward to this. It looks like it's another classic from Pixar.

I'm still waiting for Wall-E here in Norway. Why why why does every good movie has to come sooooo late to Norway. Stuff are out on DVD when we can see it on cinema. Can't believe it!

WIP - Showreel 2008

Animation Tips & Tricks

It's been a long time since I posted something here. So here is a little update:

I'm working hard to prepare myself for Animation Mentor, I'm starting up 30th of june . I have bought all the basic videos from Jason Ryan Animation. This is some super nice information!

Also discovered that Richard Williams is releasing his MasterClass The Animator's Survival kit "Animated" on 16 dvds! Time to save some money, this is a must have!
You can read more about Richard Williams here.

Shawn Kelly has started up a new blog, more stuff to my RSS feed! Nice inspiration and information.

And finally... I'm going to get a boy! So now we have a girl and a boy. SUPER COOOOL!

Waiting for Animation Mentor to start

While I'm waiting for the summer term to start, I'm doing some preparations. I bought a copy of DigiCel FlipBook after watching some tutorials from Jason Ryan. This is a great software to do some fast line tests, and animation in general. It also has a good connection between FlipBook and Maya.

What I like about FlipBook is that it is so fast. You really get the feeling that this is made with the animator in mind!

I also got a tip from a current Animation Mentor student, that they use PEK at Animation Mentor, so I will check that one out as well, to see witch one I like the most.

The Making of Burning Safari Short

Burning Safari from a group of talented French Students, has a really cool visual style. This is good inspiration!
Found this making of, check it out.

The Making of Burning Safari Short

The Disney Company on Ollie Johnston

Ollie Johnston, one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last living member passed away April 14th 2008.

Here you can read the official Walt Disney Studio press obituary, released to the media.

Some information about Ollie Johnston from Wikipedia:

Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr. (October 31, 1912 – April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last living member. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005.

He was a directing animator at Walt Disney Studios from 1935 to 1978. He contributed to many films including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi and Pinocchio. His last full work for Disney came with The Rescuers, in which he was caricatured as one of the film's characters, the cat Rufus.

Johnston co-authored, with Frank Thomas, the reference book The Illusion of Life. This book helped preserve the knowledge of the techniques that were developed at the studio. The partnership of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston is fondly presented in the documentary Frank and Ollie, produced by Thomas' son Theodore.

Boby Beck's Webinar - April 30th 7PM PDT

Meat AnimationMentor.com CEO and formar Pixar animator Bobby Beck & animator on Horton Hears a Who! Aja Bogdanoff April 30th 7PM PDT.

Hear Boby Beck share how he got started as an animator and the work he did on cool projects like Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Bobby talks about how AnimationMentor.com really works, and he will interview one of the graduates of Animation Mentor, Aja Bogdanoff, about her recent experience working on Horton Hears a Who!

Click here to sign up for this super cool webinar

Frame by Frame #5 - Saturday 26.april

Its time for a new Frame by Frame gathering. This time on Filmens hus in Oslo, Norway.

The schedule of the day:
12.00-13.45
Welcome!
Visuelt screening
Latest news from Qvisten Animation

13.45-14.15
Break

14.15-15.45
Before You Animate - Adam Burke, Pixar

15.45-16.15
Break

16.15-18.00
Filmforbundet
A presentation of Animation Conversation
New, Norwegian animation

18.00-18.30
Break

18.30-19.30
Tomm Moore / Cartoon Saloon

19.30 >
Party & lottery

Price: kr 150,-
Location: Filmens hus, Dronningensgate 16, Oslo

Animation Mentor - Here I Come!!!

Moving to a new apartment!
Been long time since I posted something here. Been moving to my new apartment, so much packing and unpacking. Didn't knew we had so much stuff!

Animation Mentor
Finally got the answer from Animation Mentor, I'm in! So coooool. Can't wait. So since I don't have so much animation experience yet, I'm going to start practicing so I have some work under my fingers before I start there.

I got a seat in the Summer 2008 class. So this is going to be 18 super exciting months with hard work!

I have for a long time wanted to go there, but since Lånekassa (Norwegian financial support for education) didn't supported Animation Mentor, I had to save for it myself.

So after some hard saving, I'm finally there!

I'm going to keep you updated here on my blog.

Free e-book from animator Shawn Kelly!

Downloaded my copy of the free e-book with a lot of animation tips & tricks from the award winning animator Shawn Kelly. He is currently working over at ILM, and is the co-founder of Animation Mentor.

Get your copy today!