JOUST by Mike Koizumi

Amazing manga-style action storyboard (well…it’s practically animated, really).

Mp3 interviews

Audio interviews are great. You can carry them around on your MP3 player and listen to them while driving, washing dishes or standing in a particularly long line at your favorite government institution.

Here’s a great resource of MP3 interviews with many great artists. They have quite a few prominent animation people on: Brad Bird, Pete Doctor, Chuck Jones, Tim Burton.

Enjoy

http://www.movingimagesource.us/dialogues/

Jungle book quick-sketching #2

To be perfectly honest, the last two were so disappointing in the original quick sketch session, that I just had to re-sketch them this morning. These are the new ones.

Jungle book quick-sketching #1

From a quick-sketching session at Snowball VFX. To be continued – there' are also some Baloo sketches.

Playing with facial shapes

I drew all four during one of our longer “dailies” meetings at Snowball. The upper left one was the inspiration for the other four (loosely based on my friend Nir G., though it looks more like his evil twin…sorry Nir!)

The other three are my attempts to interpret and accentuate the special feature of the first drawing: mainly the forehead and the jaw. My favorite interpretation is the cubical dude.

I noticed that I somehow I got much better at controlling my lines, even though I don’t use pencil so much – it’s mainly Wacom these days. Maybe it’s because the Wacom is so hard to control? Either way, I’m not complaining :)

"Skinners" pitch

This is my pitch assignment for Kris Pearn's storyboarding course at Schoolism.com. I have to confess, this turned out to be rather difficult. Pitching requires a certain fluidity of speech that I'm not sure I can even muster in Hebrew, and definitely not in English. In the end, I just opened Premiere and edited out a lot of slowness and stuttering. I think the result is not so bad.

Comments and thoughts and also critique, are even more welcome than usual.

People (and a motorcycle)