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Next Frame is no more

2009-06-18T14:19:00.001-07:00

I have finally created a proper website which can be viewed at www.alimation.ca

Goodbye blogspot!

Pixar and Dreamworks artist blog links.

2009-05-03T09:22:00.001-07:00

Pixar Blogs

Dreamworks Blogs

Digital Kung-Fu May 15

2009-04-26T09:11:00.000-07:00

Program Description:
Digital Kung-Fu is Digital Media For U! Get your digital black belt during a day of intensive training and workshops at the Centre for Digital Media (CDM).

The CDM is home to the Masters of Digital Media program – a powerhouse master's level degree bearing the seals of Four Universities (UBC, SFU, UBC and BCIT)”

Who is it for?
If you are a developer, looking to start your next venture, or just interested in learning more about future trends in digital development and innovation, join us at the Centre for Digital Media on May 14th for this special event.

Date and Location:
Date: Thursday May 14, 2009
Location: Centre for Digital Media
577 Great Northern Way
Vancouver BC
(For directions visit mdm.gnwc.ca/contact)

http://www.newmediabc.com/events.php?event=179

Grandma's Reaction to 2 girls 1 cup.

2008-06-07T14:10:00.000-07:00

I am putting this here for the day I need to animate a scene where the character is shocked\disgusted. There is no better reference than this video you will agree after seeing it. :)

Bionic Commando Rearmed Soundtrack

2008-05-29T16:47:00.001-07:00

Bionic Commando soundtrack is now available on Itunes and SumthingDigital!

Korean Drummer is too good for his band.

2008-04-03T20:17:00.000-07:00

This is a perfect example of contrast....and excellent drumming.

GT5:prologue - Car porn

2008-03-29T11:21:00.000-07:00

So Europe gets to play this now while we have to wait till mid april..I want to race my ferrari f1 car too! :(

Click Here for amazing gameplay footage of the F1 car.

Real life imitates cartoons

2008-03-28T23:22:00.001-07:00

Awareness Test

2008-03-27T12:24:00.001-07:00

Drunk + head + wall = fail

2008-03-26T13:29:00.000-07:00

This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

Helpful MEL Scripts

2008-03-24T09:16:00.000-07:00

These are some of the MEL scripts I use daily when animating that help tramendously! If I am missing some make sure to drop a comment and tell me which ones so I can add it to the list. Click on the scripts name to go to the download page for it.

Parenting for animators

Amazing script! It simplifies picking up\dropping objects so greatly. You will wonder how you lived without it!

Tween Machine

A script that will save you a lot of time when you are working on adding your breakdown poses.

abx Smart Key

My favorite script of late. Smart key lets you isolate channels in the graph editor and the timeline based on what you have selected on the channelbox.

Pose 2 Shelf

This Script lets you save poses and selections to the shelf. Great time saver.

Tj's Animation Workflow

2008-03-18T15:04:00.000-07:00

Tj Phan, who is one of the best game animators I know of, has posted a really great and informative blog post on how he approaches his animations. make sure to check out the rest of his blog too!

Click here to read.

Manipulation

2008-03-18T15:02:00.000-07:00

This is one of the most creative and amazing animations I have ever seen. A must see!

Click here to check it out.

Turok - Animation Workflow

2008-03-05T12:35:00.001-08:00

Cameron Fielding posts a very informative games animation workflow postmortem on his blog. Must read for all games animators.

Click here to read it.

The Art of Keith Thompson

2008-03-04T23:14:00.001-08:00

Take a look at the incredible drawings of Keith Thompson by clicking here.

A history of Amiga

2008-02-13T10:00:00.000-08:00

Ars Technica has a great writeup on the history of Amiga.

Click here to read.

Wall-E International Trailer

2008-02-08T16:36:00.000-08:00

Amazing new trailer for Wall-E

Click here to watch.

New Ironman Tv Spot

2008-02-03T18:16:00.001-08:00

The only way this movie can be better is if it was Italian Ironman.

Click here to watch it.

Italian Spiderman

2008-02-03T11:09:00.000-08:00

Words can do this no justice so just watch it:

Click here to be amazed.

Library of Congress Photos

2008-02-03T11:02:00.001-08:00

Library of Congress has posted tons of photos from 1910's to 1950's at their flicker page. It's a great resource and there are thousands of photos to browse.

Click here to visit.

Next Frame is.....BACK!

2008-02-03T10:51:00.000-08:00

Thats right! and I have a badass cobra poster to prove I am serious.

PS: Everyone go see Rambo.

9 Minutes of Ratatouille in 1080p!

2007-05-03T10:39:00.000-07:00

Right click and save as this link to dl the 1080p clip to your HD.

and

Here is the 720p one

The Zombie Survival Guide

2007-04-25T14:38:00.001-07:00

Yet another awesome video that proves Simon Pegg and Nick Frost can do no wrong.

Spiderman 4 Sneak Preview.

2007-04-20T12:19:00.000-07:00

Looks like Kirsten Dunst was not joking when she said Spiderman 4 without the same team would bomb. I will still go see it though. The special fx looks amazing even this early. Watch the video below and see for yourself folks!

Daywatch Trailer

2007-03-21T18:38:00.000-07:00

The sequel to Nightwatch is coming out in June. I have watched the russian DVD with english subtitles a while ago and it didnt make any sense whatsoever hopefully this version will be better. The trailer is very pretty to look at in any case :)

Click here to watch the trailer.

Art of Disney on Blu-Ray

2007-03-20T10:09:00.000-07:00

Disney Japan has this blu ray listed for april 25th release. Judging from the trailer it seems to have all kinds of hard to find materials like pencil tests , concept art , etc. I really hope we get this released in US and Canada also.

Click here for the trailer.

Brad Bird at Wondercon

2007-03-06T17:16:00.000-08:00

Click here to watch the rest of the videos.

Game Developers Conference

2007-03-06T12:20:00.000-08:00

It's that time of the year and GDC is back in San Francisco. The expo starts tomorrow and I'll be demoing for softimage at the ATI booth so if you are attending the show stop by and say hi!

Click here to register to GDC.

Ultimate Pen

2007-03-04T16:05:00.000-08:00

So I have recently made the switch to a mac and the only thing I was missing from windows was annotate pro. Then I discovered Ultimate Pen which is better than annotate pro in every way for the animator. If you are on a mac and you need on screen drawing , this is the only tool you need.

Click here to check it out.

Reflex

2007-03-03T09:32:00.000-08:00

If you are an animator and havent heard of Reflex yet , do yourself a favor and do not click the link below. it will make the wait that much harder! I warned you!

Click here to see what every animator dreams about.

Shaun the Sheep from Aardman

2007-03-03T09:30:00.000-08:00

Shaun the sheep is a new TV series from Aardman that will premiere on the 5th of March. There are some hilarious clips on the website worth checking out.

Click here to visit the official site.

This is the Zodiac Speaking...

2007-03-03T01:56:00.000-08:00

David Fincher is back with one hell of a movie. Zodiac was hands down the best movie I have seen this year and the one before. Its three hours long but its so masterfully done you dont realize the time fly by. Go see it now!

Click here for the trailer.

Andrea's Blog

2007-02-18T00:11:00.000-08:00

Amazing sculptures and concepts are just one click away.

Click here to visit.

Gamedevmap

2007-02-14T17:47:00.000-08:00

Gamedevmap is a website where you can click on the city and it will show you all the game developers in the area with their contact and website info. A great website for game artists looking for their next gig.

Click here to visit.

A very short clip from Rapunzel

2007-02-11T15:16:00.000-08:00

You know the movie is going to be good when you watch the 3 second clip over and over and get amazed at the animation each time.

Guard Dog

2007-02-09T19:11:00.000-08:00

One of the best shorts ever made by Bill Plympton now on youtube. Enjoy!

RATATOUILLE Rough Animation Test

2007-02-09T12:42:00.001-08:00

Irn Bru Snowman Advert

2007-02-09T00:00:00.000-08:00

Great commercial! :)

Purple and Brown

2007-02-08T13:29:00.000-08:00

Aardman does it again! Take a look at the hilarious Purple&Brown shorts.

Click here to check it out.

The Structure of Man

2007-02-06T11:20:00.000-08:00

Structure of man is a great drawing training on 5 dvd's for the low price of 25$

Check it out here.

The Little Match Girl

2007-02-05T19:46:00.000-08:00

This is possibly the best short film Disney has ever made. It is nominated for Oscar this year and I hope it wins it.

300 - Art of the Movie

2007-02-05T13:57:00.000-08:00

Not much needs to be said about this other than GET IT NOW!

Click here for the Amazon page.

I am Batman..

2007-02-04T22:53:00.000-08:00

I was suffering from back and neck pain recently due to bad posture at work and a coworker of mine who also does trapese during his freetime told me about how awesome hanging upside down is for your back and neck in general.

So I did some research and purchased a inversion table. And man! wish I had done this years ago , it takes care of all your back\neck pain in 2 minutes the first time you use it. If you are suffering from that give this thing a try before you spend tons of money on a chiropractor or massage.

Click here to check it out.

Threads

2007-02-04T22:44:00.000-08:00

Threads is a BBC movie from 1983. Its about life after nuclear war and it's one movie everyone should watch. It is the kind of movie that stays with you long after watching it.

Click here to check it out on google video.

Flow

2007-01-08T22:43:00.000-08:00

Meet your new addiction , Flow. Flow is like snake on crack. I have been playing this game for 2 hours straight so if you need to get work done do not click on the link below :)

Click here to flow.

Free online courses from top universities.

2007-01-05T00:17:00.000-08:00

MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm

Stanford: http://itunes.stanford.edu/

Princeton: http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/ (wheee, Martin Scorsese: "Discusses Film-Making")

Berkeley: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/ and http://itunes.berkeley.edu

Purdue: http://boilercast.itap.purdue.edu:1013/Boilercast/

Carnegie Mellon: http://www.cmu.edu/oli/

Utah State: http://ocw.usu.edu/front-page/Courses_listing

Tufts: http://ocw.tufts.edu/CourseList

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/topics.cfm and http://podcasting.jhu.edu/department.php

University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/course-webs.html

Harvard: http://athome.harvard.edu/

Openlearn: http://ocw.tufts.edu/CourseList

Connexions: http://cnx.org/content/browse_course_titles

Wikiversity: http://en.wikiversity.org and http://en.wikibooks.org

Emperors New Groove Line Tests

2006-12-26T09:55:00.000-08:00

Check out these amazing line tests from one of the best disney movies ever.

Click here to check it out.

50 Greatest Cartoons

2006-12-24T10:31:00.000-08:00

From the site:

"50 Greatest Cartoons
Found a cool list of The 50 Greatest Cartoons as voted on by the animation industry in 1994. As a holiday present to our readers we've put together a link to an online video for each one below! (we found a video for all but 6.) Many wonderful, funny, trippy and cartoons spanning the decades (and some that were banned.) Enjoy!"

Click here to watch them.

Art of Glen Keane

2006-12-20T11:16:00.000-08:00

A friend sent me the link to this wonderful blog. Go ahead and get inspired.

Click here to visit.

PS3 sixaxis commercial featuring Lair!

2006-11-25T08:32:00.000-08:00

Take a look at the new PS3 commercial featuring "Lair"

Click here to view.

XSI 6 Announced

2006-11-15T13:39:00.000-08:00

Animation layers at last!

Click here to check out the awesome new features

San Francisco XSI User Group

2006-11-07T22:29:00.000-08:00

We have just started a new XSI user group chapter for San Francisco. Register to get notified of our first meeting to come soon.

Click here to visit.

Don't @#$@ with the sheep

2006-11-03T11:43:00.000-08:00

Thats right! New Zealand sheep are pissed off after years of abuse from the farmboys. This is one movie you don't wanna miss.

Click here to read more.

Open Season Production Diaries

2006-10-27T20:43:00.000-07:00

AWN has posted an exclusive making of feature for Open Season that covers all aspects of the production.

Check it out here.

Firefox 2 is out.

2006-10-24T19:45:00.000-07:00

Firefox 2 is released.

Download here.

ARKive

2006-10-24T08:49:00.000-07:00

ARKive is yet another reference site full of animal videos you can use. It also includes still pictures.

Click here to check it out.

Asifa posts more Disney model sheets

2006-10-23T21:07:00.000-07:00

Take a look at this amazing resource for animators and illustrators alike.

Click here to visit the asifa site.

Dell 3007wfp , now 1270$

2006-10-23T21:03:00.000-07:00

If you are in the market for a new monitor take a look at the Dell small business site. the 30" monitor is now 1270$ compared to Apple's 30" which is 2300$ with tax and it is a much better monitor than the Apple 30"

I Just recieved mine today and suffice to say size DOES matter :)

Click here to check it out.

Glen Keane Animation lecture on Youtube

2006-10-22T18:56:00.000-07:00

Watch em before they are gone.

Click here to learn a LOT of cool tricks.

R.I.P Update

2006-08-27T23:17:00.000-07:00

Almost done with modeling one of the characters in my short. This was quite a learning experience for me since the last time I modeled something was like 5 years ago. Now off to model the Zombie while she is being rigged.

Click here for a turntable of the model.

Dead Rising - Extended Trailer

2006-08-03T14:08:00.000-07:00

Zombies? - check
Over 1000 weapons to kill them? - check
Awesome free roaming environment? - check

Next tuesday cant come soon enough.

Click here for a good reason to buy a xbox 360.

Vader Sessions

2006-07-16T13:40:00.000-07:00

This is genious!

This movie replaces dialogue from the original Star Wars with various dialogue from other James Earl Jones movies. Words can do it no justice you have to watch it now.

Click here to watch.

Cg Portfolio Animation Hosting is in BETA

2006-07-13T13:11:00.000-07:00

Thats right. And its pretty nice if you are like me and unable to design a web page :)

It uses flash video (.flv) which means you can get pretty decent quality outputs with really small file sizes.

For an example you can check out this anim I just uploaded:

Click here to view.

Spiderman 3 Teaser!

2006-06-27T13:16:00.000-07:00

This teaser is hands down one of the coolest teasers I have ever seen. Cant wait to see this in front of superman on the big screen.

Click here to check it out.

Great music videos of the past.

2006-06-25T18:56:00.000-07:00

I was browsing youtube for some hard to find Music videos that I used to watch ALL the time back when MTV used to play music (wow now I feel old). Here are some good ones.

Metallica - unforgiven

Dire Straits - Money for nothing

Cranberries - Zombie

Snakes on a *&%#@## plane fankit!

2006-06-23T12:51:00.000-07:00

Thats right! Lots of new audio\video and images from the best movie of all times.

Grab it here.

Gnars Barkley - Crazy

2006-06-19T19:09:00.000-07:00

Take a look at this outstanding music video for Gnars Barkley's crazy.

Right click and dl the quicktime file here.

Ipod Skins

2006-06-11T12:47:00.000-07:00

I was searching for good looking Ipod skins and a friend tipped me off to this site called Gelaskins. If you have a Ipod , well worth checking out.

Click here to visit the site.

One man band is available from Itunes

2006-06-10T13:44:00.000-07:00

You can now buy the full short from Itunes for $2.

-A

Four New Gobelins Shorts

2006-06-10T13:31:00.000-07:00

Aside from burning safari which is linked below , gobelins put four more annecy animations done by their students online.

Make sure to check out the chicken one , hilarious :)

Click here to check it out.

Burning Safari

2006-06-08T18:41:00.000-07:00

Yet another excellent short from the talented students of Gobelins.

Click here to watch.

One Rat Short

2006-06-06T19:17:00.000-07:00

One Rat Short gets a website! For those who dont know ORS is a short film by Alex Weil and is selected best of show for this years siggraph electronic theatre.

Click here to check out the trailer.

AWN: Value of Shorts

2006-06-02T11:11:00.000-07:00

Awn has a nice article about how studios are ramping up their short divisions.

Click here to read it.

Cars - Behind the Scenes

2006-06-01T11:22:00.000-07:00

IGN has posted a behind the scenes video for Pixar's upcoming movie Cars.

Click here to check it out.

Let the games begin!

2006-05-23T12:44:00.000-07:00

I couldnt resist the awesome lineup xbox 360 had at e3 and got me one today. So far my first impressions are all positive. Live marketplace rocks so much , it is so much fun downloading trailers , music vids and game demos all for free. The only downside to it right now is I have a regular tv. Compared to hdtv the games look like crap and its hard to read the on screen text. Took me an hour to finish the training mission on ghost recon thanks to that. :)

those of you on live add me up! My gamertag is: SheepFactory

Oh and if you havent done so already make sure to download the lost planet demo from the marketplace , it is amazing!

-A

Robot Chicken - Star Wars

2006-05-22T16:46:00.000-07:00

Kneeling Chair

2006-05-19T10:08:00.000-07:00

I just got one of these weird looking kneeling chairs from office max and man..wish I did it much much sooner. You sit on top and put your knees on the lower pad and it removes tension from your lower back and eliminates slouching alltogether. If your back hurts give this one a try , the office max one was really cheap like $40.

Here is a site with some fancier models.

Lost Planet

2006-05-12T22:43:00.000-07:00

I have been checking out whats new at e3 and this new game by capcom takes the cake for being the coolest looking game I have seen in a long while. This holiday season will be incredible for gamers with the release of so many good games and systems. Now is a good time to learn how to rob a bank :)

Click here to see more about Lost Planet.

Scribblin' Away

2006-05-05T11:00:00.000-07:00

Just a heads up on this great book by Rik Maki.

"He has been a designer in the animation industry for over 27 years and has spent the last 18 years as a Character Designer for Walt Disney Feature Animation. Scribblin’ Away at Mike’s Café is his first of many books that are just filled with characters and situations that quickly flow from the imagination, to the pencil, to the paper from Rik Maki"

Click here to check the book out.

Psyop - Mtv

2006-05-03T09:14:00.000-07:00

An amazing ad from Psyop.

Click here to watch.

Badgered

2006-04-30T23:38:00.000-07:00

Oscar nominated short film "Badgered" is now available online.

Click here to watch it.

Thief and the Cobbler on Youtube

2006-04-28T21:15:00.000-07:00

Came across this while browsing youtube:

" From the three-time Academy Award winning animator of Who Framed Roger Rabbit ...

Restored version of Richard Williams' unfinished animated masterpiece, The Thief and the Cobbler.

Unofficial restoration by Garrett Gilchrist. This is not intended for profit, just a fanmade research project and tribute to this classic film.

The film was worked on for 26 years, with a team of master animators like Ken Harris and Art Babbit. This film inspired Disney's Aladdin. Ruined versions of it were released as Arabian Knight and The Princess and the Cobbler.

For more info, visit originaltrilogy.com (forum 11), orangecow.org, ffrevolution.com, and thiefandthecobbler.com."

Click here to watch it on youtube.

R.I.P Update

2006-04-26T18:57:00.000-07:00

Another concept sneak peak from R.I.P. Pat just turned in these awesome tree concepts , we are off to model some of them now. We will have one scary looking graveyard :)

Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006

2006-04-23T21:24:00.000-07:00

Get ready to watch one of the coolest animated shorts ever made. :)

copy and paste any of the links below to your browser:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/jhonp9

http://shii.wakachan.net/~shii/shii.org/PaulRobertson_PirateBabysCabanaBattleStreetFight2006.mpg

http://www.veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=e59266G24Jwq3G

http://www.hentaikid.com/PaulRobertson_PirateBabysCabanaBattleStreetFight2006.mpg

click here to visit the makers blog.

Silent Hill

2006-04-21T22:16:00.000-07:00

Got to see Silent Hill this morning and man...it was a trip. Finally someone got it right , everything that made the game great from the weird monsters to the tension to the flashlight is in the movie. And most importantly we finally get to see a horror movie rated R. It does not shy away from showing any of the gory stuff.

Highly recommended.

R.I.P Update

2006-04-20T14:36:00.000-07:00

Here is two of the many concepts being done for the cemetary. (Click on image for full size) These two concepts are done by Pat.

Currently we are in the process of finalizing the design on the characters and concepting the environment and visual style. Rough layout is also being built.

More updates soon..

-Ali

Doodle of the Day

2006-04-18T01:00:00.000-07:00

Leonardo

2006-04-17T22:55:00.000-07:00

Jim Capobianco of Pixar animation studios has been documenting the making of his short film on his blog. And it is full of excellent information.

Take a look at it here.

Doodle of the Day

2006-04-17T13:25:00.000-07:00

Fahrenheit Digital - Rigging DVD

2006-04-15T16:25:00.000-07:00

Aaron Holly of Disney just released the first training DVD in a series of 3. This one covers building a rig for a feature animation pipeline. I just recieved it and will be reviewing it for cgsociety.

meanwhile check out the site and the trailer vid:

Click here to check it out.

Disney's Meet the Robinsons Trailer

2006-04-15T11:47:00.000-07:00

This is one of the movies I am really looking forward to. the animation looks amazing.

Click here to watch.

Doodle of the Day

2006-04-12T15:12:00.000-07:00

Another excellent animated commercial from Studio AKA

2006-04-06T17:42:00.000-07:00

Studio AKA can do no wrong. Check out this charming lottery commercial done by the Jo Jo in the Stars director Marc Craste.

After you click on the below link , go to news and click on the big win (second from top) and then click on the green play button in the bottom to view the commercial.

Click here to check it out.

Charlotte's Web Teaser

2006-04-05T09:29:00.000-07:00

Finally a trailer hits the net! looks like animation is phenomenal in this movie,I can't wait to see it.

Check it out here.

Also make sure to check out the blog of Morgan Loomis , one of the talented animators on this show who animated Templeton.

R.I.P Update

2006-03-31T11:20:00.000-08:00

The story and the boards are finished. We are now officially in production :) Watch this space for more updates in the future.

Hilarious PS2 Commercials

2006-03-29T10:42:00.000-08:00

take a look at these hilarious commercials for PS2:

Commercial 1

Commercial 2

Commercial 3

Airwolf - Season 1

2006-03-28T18:47:00.000-08:00

If you dont remember this kickass show you probably were born after 1985. I remember being glued to the tv watching this. Now they are releasing the first season on dvd! need to pick this up with knight rider :)

Click here to check it out.

30 sec anim

2006-03-27T12:00:00.000-08:00

Yet another amazing 30 second animation from gobelins. I dont know what they teach the students there that we dont learn here but every single piece of animation that comes out of that school pushes the boundaries of innovation.

Click here to be impressed.

God of War II

2006-03-24T08:45:00.000-08:00

wow..just wow:

Click here to see some amazing gameplay.

Fin d'ete

2006-03-20T00:44:00.000-08:00

Fin d'ete is a short film from the French animation school Supinfocom. Well worth checking out.

Click here to visit the site.