Sharpen your stylus' ! Announcing Iggy and Scared Bunny's New Contest from Focal Press

ARE YOU ANIMATED?

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Enter Focal Press' The Animator's Eye Character Mentor Contest and win free books from Focal Press, a signed copy of The Animator's Eye: Adding Life to Animation with Timing, Layout, Design, Color and Sound and a drawing by Iggy.

Check it out at: http://www.focalpress.com/character_mentor_contest/

The Animator's Eye color scripts

The Animator's Eye is published! I just got my review copies today and it looks great. I hope you'll enjoy it. The color scripts for the film, The Animator's Eye are pretty small so I thought I'd let you see the full size here.

I drew the storyboards with a Ticonderoga Redisharp on sticky notes. I took digital pictures of them and sized them to make a grid layout. I painted the colors right over the sticky notes using an new layer with Art Rage Studio. Great software.

Piglet's BIG movie color script by Fred Warter

These small paintings were created by art director, Fred Warter as a color script for Piglet's BIG Movie.

A color script is a guide for the crew to follow so everyone uses the right colors. More importantly, it is a way to track the emotional journey of the movie. They focus on light, atmosphere, and color relationships. Enjoy. (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

The Animator's Eye is being published Friday!

The Animator's Eye Book Trailer

Greetings everyone! Friday, September 21, 2012, my new book The Animator's Eye is scheduled to be published by Focal Press. You can watch a trailer all about it on YouTube.

And please give a big hand to Hans Karl for the wonderful score, Chris Siemasko and  Brian Cox for some super special effects and J.D. Stewart as Hans' audio production services and finally, my son, Ryan Glebas for shooting video and editing for the book.

And of course, a big thanks to all of the wonderful folks at Focal Press for their work in bringing The Animator's Eye to life.

You can see the short I made for the film at: The Animator's Eye cartoon short

Aladdin weirdness:Genie of the lava lamp

When you make an animated film, you create thousands of drawings that you won't use. It's just part of the process. Sometimes you just get an idea and you have to go with it. You never know where an idea will take you. Here's one of those goofy ones that I did while doing visual development for Aladdin. Usually, one doesn't spend a lot of time on these because you know it probably won't be used. But, you never know what can happen when you rub the magic lamp. (RUB TO ENLARGE IMAGE, I MEAN CLICK)

Now that I look at again, it kind of looks like what the director of Aladdin, John Musker, might have looked like during the 1960's. John is one of the most incredible caricaturists that I've ever met.

Aladdin visual development early watercolors

Found some visual development that I created for Aladdin. This was the first feature I worked on for Disney. It was a really exciting and fun time. I didn't really know what I was doing, but did my best. I had so much to learn. These were completed with watercolor on thick watercolor paper with a smooth surface.

This was back in the day when an animated film didn't have to make over $300 million to be considered a success. So we were still below the radar of the money people. Fun times and great friends.

Why a duck? Why an ark?

Here's a fun piece by art director, Dan Cooper, that he did for Pomp and Circumstance. Unfortunately, this old copy doesn't convey any of the incredible color and light subtlety of Dan's original. For a real treat watch Fantasia 2000's Pomp and Circumstance and pay attention to the color and light. 

If you look carefully you'll notice that the ark is actually shaped kind of like a duck. Only a great art director pays such attention to detail.

I learned so much from all  of my crew. Thank you all.

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You can see some of Dan's personal paintings at his blog: http://dancoopersblogsplotch.blogspot.com/