Animating “Art”

Uploaded this one onto youtube, a very interesting 4 part biography on Art Babbitt, an amazing animator. Really worth checking out. Have fun :

Ciao

Mathieu Vierendeel

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh !!!

This just ruined my day, don’t you hate it when you buy a new type of pencil. You just want to try it out and then you get this :

 

This a Koh -I -Noor Hardmuth “Giaconda” Negro pencil, and for time I was able to use it, only like 10 drawings, I really like it. It’s almost as black as a Chinamarker but it shows less grain of the paper. Very nice. If it doesn’t brake like this one, grrrrrrrr

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Want some anatomy ?

héhé, I uploaded my notes from yesterday. I did some study on the upper leg. Really interesting stuff, can’t wait to implement it into my drawings.

Check it out : http://999drawings.wordpress.com/ 

The Da Vinci code

No seriously, I was listening to an audio book, and I had to write these things down.

Basicly it’s supposed to be Da Vinci’s seven rules for becoming a better artists, wich I think applies just as much for animators.

1. Curiosita: An insatiably curious approach to life.
2. Dimonstratzione: A commitment to test knowledge through experience.
3. Sensazione: The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to clarify experience.
4. Sfumato: A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
5. Arte/Scienza: The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination (”whole-brain thinking”).
6. Corporalita: The cultivation of ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
7. Connessione: A recognition and appreciation for the connectedness of all things and phenomena; “systems thinking.”

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I do recognise allot of these in myself, like the first two. Just great to see that over the years not much has changed in theway “artists” think. I noticed that Kristoff Serrand is a great Da Vinci fan, he gaves us some great notes by Da Vinci :

• “Give your figures an attitude revealing the thoughts that the characters have in their mind, otherwise your art won’t deserve praise.Leonardo DA VINCI” (1452-1519)

• “Be an observer and wherever you go for amusement, study the sites, and the actions of people; the way they talk or laugh or fight, the attitudes they take, what gestures they do.Leonardo DA VINCI “(1452 - 1519)

• “It’s a presumption to believe that we can recollect all the effects of nature. The memory is not capable of such an effort. The safest is to work from life as often as we can.”Leonardo DA VINCI (1452 - 1519)

• “It is not enough to believe what you see, you must also understand what you see.”Leonardo DA VINCI (1452 - 1519)

Now if that isn’t solid advice. damn he was good