Character Animation Reel by Alexis Wanneroy
Alexis Wanneroy contacted me asking if I would post his showreel.
How could I refuse!
Alexis is a character animator at Dreamworks and has been lucky enough to work there for 5 years producing animation for How To Train Your Dragon, Kung Fu Panda, Bee Movie and Flushed Away.
He started working in the industry on Valiant after graduating from the Gobelins School in France, with his film Human Nature. I saw the short back in 2003 and remember really liking the style of both the quirky characters and the snappy animation.
Screenshot From Despicable Me
Despicable Me released in UK cinemas today, voiced by Steve Carell, Jason Segel and Russell Brand.
The film was crafted by Illumination Entertainment in the US and Mac Guff in Paris. While the animation studios are relatively young and less well known than Pixar or Dreamworks, the animation, rendering, story and humour hold up amongst the bigger studios.
Toy Story 3 Released In UK Today
After refraining from watching any trailers, searching for pre-renders and taking a hiatus from following Lee Unkrich on twitter I can only presume that Toy Story 3 will be the must see film of the year and will be booking IMAX 3D tickets as soon as possible.
The Art of Toy Story 3
by Charles Solomon
A new book in Pixar’s excellent ‘art of’ series is now availiable to order.
Dreamworks new animated feature film How To Train Your Dragon is out in UK cinemas today and will be available to watch in IMAX 3-D
Watch The How To Train Your Dragon Trailer in full Quicktime HD 1080
Should be a great one as it is currently getting some fantastic reviews.
IMDB currently 8.3/10! Rotten Tomatoes currently 97%!
Behind-the-scenes of How To Train Your Dragon on Making of.com (above)
Animation Mentor graduate Mike Stern worked on the film.
You can Follow Him Here On Twitter
Wee Brian who was one of the three animators on Aardman’s The Deadline also worked as an Animator.
Interesting Production Videos collated on the CGsociety Forums.
Animation World Network interview with Directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, also includes interview with Head of Character Animation Simon Otto entitled DreamWorks Unleashes the Dragons
Art Of How To Train Your Dragon
by Tracey Miller-Zarneke
Art Of How To Train Your Dragon Example Page
UP
Dir: Pete Docter
Pixar’s latest film Up is released on Blu-ray today in the UK. I was looking forward to seeing this as I missed it at the cinema. Written and directed by Monsters Inc. director and veteran Toy Story animator Pete Docter Also includes Pixar’s latest animated short Partly Cloudy
An interesting section in the making of documentary, describes how the story department fleshed out Carl and Ellie’s developing relationship. One idea shows them trading ’punches’ throughout the years to gain one-upmanship over each other! The idea was unsurprisingly discarded as the ‘cross your heart’ concept was deemed more prominent. It just shows that Pixar develop their stories to the full, exploring every possible avenue, while going through many rewrites before deciding on the final draft.
Coraline
Dir: Henry Selick
If you are interested in animation in any way at all, CG or otherwise, I recommend that you buy Coraline on Blu-ray. The film is a masterpiece of animation.
Monsters Inc.
Dir: Pete Docter
Finally, released today in the UK, Monsters Inc. on Blu-ray.
Includes full DTS-HD uncompressed sound.
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