Jason Ryan is a supervising animator at major feature film studios. His resume includes working at Disney and Dreamworks.
Australian animators have the opportunity to discuss animation topics and solve animation problems in a series of live webinars.
Second year students at SBIT, just think about it... What a great way to continue building your show reel / demo reel after graduation. Each month potentially having an improved animation piece to replace student stumblings.
Other Jason Ryan posts on the ARC (find out why this bunch of Brisbane animation students are so excited*). Find out more about Jason Ryan.
*Ian said (previously), "I’m chuffed that there is a way we can teach 3D and keep drawing central to the process. Thankyou Jason Ryan. :)"
What do you think of the acting choices in this animation?
Do the key poses/ frames communicate clearly?
CHEVisodes "Stressing Out"
The file is a Quicktime movie so you can study it frame-by-frame, which is really fun!
If something doesn't make sense in class students are encouraged to try and look at the problem in different ways, from a few different viewpoints.
Ian and I had an interesting talk about the different way people learn things. And sometimes we just have to find what makes sense to the individual.
So if your animated character isn't doing the things you want it to do, use Internet resources, it's good to see how different animators solve the problems.
AnimationMentor have started a blog that could be added to your problem solving resource list.
From what I can gather Its Jerry Time is an online animated show, and according to the site it has won an Emmy, which means there is an Emmy for online animation or shows. News to me.
Having worked in the online entertainment biz a bit myself, I'm afraid I'm pretty cynical. All I can see is that some one or some people have poured their heart and soul into this and its hard to see how they have managed to be paid for their time. Bottom line is that people expect things to be free on the net, and advertising online is not the huge money spinner it once was. I hope the creators of this show have found a way to get paid for their trouble, because they have come up with something pretty unique. Its like Angela Anaconda on drugs or something.
