I found this on the “Anim-Dailies” group in Facebook. Its a nice blocking technique used by animator Kevin Johnson.
He is basing his technique on some tools from MGTools which I didn’t know exist and now I want them as well . The Anim recorder tool is especially handy and cool.
His approach is super fast and in 10 min he is blocking something that will probably take a few hours at least if done in a more “traditional” way (although all his poses was saved at front but still!) .
here it is:
And here is part 2 of his blocking tutorial which he use other tools like the anim-library (again from the MGtools). the facial expressions he made here are just pure gold.
This game was done as a graduation project from the animation department in Bezalel academy. The project created by 2 students: Oren Rubin and Alon Simon.
It was inspired by the old quests of the 90′s – especially those from Lucasarts (monkey island, Sam and max, Day of the tentacle and etc.)
I cant express how much I love it. The designs are beautiful, the animation is excellent, it is funny (if you’re living in Israel) and to sum it up in one word: FUN.
This one is a student film made by 5 student from ESMA in France. released few months ago.
In my personal opinion – The designs and story are not so original – we’ve all seen all of it before (cloudy with chance of meatballs?).
but the execution of that is beautiful done. the animation is good, it is a funny short with good storytelling and made me laugh few times, which I think personally is the most important thing.