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Tootles teaser trailer

onehugeeye — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:59:21 +0000

About a year ago I started a personal animated project for small children called Tootles. I am only half way but I am hoping to finish this year. I’m pleased to announce a little teaser. The music score was composed by musician Tim Burns .

Pixar veteran Jeff Pratt , said this about my project:”Having a look at the Tootles teaser I think it’s brilliant. I really like the look and style of hard plastic 3D animation characters with kind of a stop motion facial animation sensibility. I really like the fact that the characters don’t deform or bend except at a few joints and that the eyes and mouth pop from one pose to another. It very much reminds me of what John Lasseter used to say about Toy Story. That the toys had to stay true to their forms and couldn’t bend or deform except at their joints. The hard plastic parts had to remain hard and rigid and once established this rule couldn’t be broken. This sets up a very believable world for the audience, which once accepted allows them to enjoy the stories presented to their fullest. And I think that the use of very graphic style of eyes and mouth makes for easily read and very expressive characters. As long as the stories match the thought and strength of the character design and animation I think it will be a huge success”I hope you like it too!

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Jeff Pratt interview

onehugeeye — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:53:06 +0000

On occassion of onehugeeye’s 10th anniversary, we’re doing a series of interviews with big inspirational names in the animation world. This week we’ve published an interesting chat with Pixar legend Jeff Pratt.

Jeff Pratt has had a fascinating (slightly meandering) career. After many years working as a space shuttle engineer for NASA, Jeff swapped the ‘infinite and beyond’ for a graphic design and computer animation path, which he kicked off with none other than Pixar, joining the teams behind ‘Toy Story’ 1 and 2, ‘A Bug’s Life’, ‘Monsters Inc’. and (as modeller/rigger) ‘Finding Nemo’. Then, after gathering bundles of experience as an animation monk he moved on, logically, to become a master and pass on his wisdom. First at Expression College just outside of San Francisco and finally at Escape Studios in the United Kingdom, where he currently works.

Read the interview here

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Yelloow Cake

onehugeeye — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:25:46 +0000

The newest film by award-winning animator, Nick Cross. ‘Yellow Cake’ is a lamentable tragedy mixed full of pleasant mirth. Both the style and the story are unique and a delight to watch, you can tell it’s been a labour of love. Nick started working on Yellow Cake in November of 2006 after he finished production on ‘The Waif of Persephone’.

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T.h.u.n.d.e.r.b.i.r.d.s.

onehugeeye — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:45:04 +0000

Alex Amelines - animateur/directeur

Dallas Taylor - créateur de sfx

Nous avons pris un extrait d’un film de science-fiction aux effets spéciaux un peu rudimentaires dans le but de les pousser un peu plus loin, sans en rajouter ou modifier le fond.

Nous ne pensons pas que ce matériel ait réellement eu besoin de de ces “améliorations”, c’était juste le pretexte à un exercice de style, réalisé pour notre plaisir personnel et sans aucune contrepartie.