Bancroft Borthers Podcast - The Brad Bird interview

This is an excellent interview. Great questions and grea responses from Brad Bird, who talks a bit about the differences directing animation and live action.

http://taughtbyapro.com/podcast-brad-bird-interview-tomorrowland/

Enjoy!

Game animators podcast at Reanimators.net

This is a great (and long) podcast that features animators in the game industry. I find it refreshing and different from the common animation podcast, probably because it sounds very informal (and also because there is alcohol involved).

Anyways,  listen to it. There is a lot of information of how the game industry is different from the feature film (besides obvious comparisons), how the industry actually works and tons of jokes.

http://reanimators.net/?p=553

Also, I added the link to the conference by David Rosen (creator of the video game "Overgrowth") and how a programmer deals with animation.

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020583/Animation-Bootcamp-An-Indie-Approach

Happy listening!

Links, enlaces et liens

This post is coming too late. It<s been sitting in the draft folder for waaaaaaay too long. But hey, better late than never! ;)

http://www.itsartmag.com/features/making-of-duet-by-glen-keane/
A Making of video from Duet, by Glen Keane.

http://www.ianimate.net/podcasts/item/interview-with-sr-animator-james-bennett.html
This is a great podcast. Very inspiring.

http://chrislesage.com/tip-of-the-day/quickly-select-and-isolate-curves-in-mayas-graph-editor/
Great little tip!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/elliekayba/40-moments-only-found-in-the-life-of-an-animator-6bt9
Pretty much everything here is true.

http://techartsurvival.blogspot.ca/2014/08/read-damn-ad.html
I shared this one on LinkedIn, but I felt I should post it here as well. Great article of hiring an artist from a HR agent.

http://www.aniref.com/
A tool to analyze video reference from your phone or iPad!

Links, enlaces et liens

http://mashable.com/2014/04/17/the-dam-keeper-pixar/
Interview with the makers of The Dam Keeper.

http://www.animatorisland.com/the-25-fastest-ways-to-fail-at-animation/
Give it a read. It will help you. ;)

http://www.organicmotion.com/we-just-doubled-our-frame-rate-and-its-a-pretty-big-freaking-deal/
New tech for suitless motion capture.

http://www.toontalkspodcast.com/?p=177
Great podcast with Mark Oftedal.

Enjoy!

Links, enlaces et liens

http://spence-animator.co.uk/scripts.php
Arc tracker for Maya. Equivalent of DTools for 3ds max.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Content/Tools/MayaRiggingTool/index.html
Rigging tools from Unreal Engine.

http://www.ianimate.net/podcasts/item/interview-with-animator-ken-fountain.html
Great podcast with Ken Fountain and his beginning as an animator.

And finally, I found this really good tip on Twitter.

#animtip The lower lid has no muscle to pull it DOWN, but it does have one that raises it. It only moves down when the eye pushes it down.
— On Animation (@DanOnAnimation) March 23, 2014

Links, enlaces and liens

http://www.gameanim.com/2013/09/11/seamless-mocap-cycles-tutorial/
Nice tutorial on how to improve your mocap sessions.

http://www.splinebomb.com/panicked-winners/
Winners of the Splinebomb contest.

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/ultimate-rigs-maya-rigs-maya-character-rigs-free-maya-rigs/
Some free Maya rigs available for download!

http://www.speakingofanimation.com/2013/10/podcast-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs-double-feature/
Podcast with some animators that worked on Cloudy with the Chance of Meatballs 1 and 2.