Tod Carter is an uber-talented artist. He's worn a lot of hats over the years from animator to story artist to director to illustrator. He's worked on projects for companies such as Disney, DreamWorks, and Big Idea (VeggieTales) as well as several TV commercials. I had the privilege of working under him on 3-2-1 Penguins! (he directed several of the...
My wife and I just watched Ben Stein's movie "Expelled" on DVD. I had seen it in theaters but forgot how good it was. It's a funny and very thought-provoking look at the debate between intelligent design and evolution. There's even a couple of animated sequences in the film. A 2D cartoon clip and an impressive 3D segment with the camera...
Last Saturday NBC aired another new episode of 3-2-1 Penguins! Here's some of the character design work I did for that episode. In this episode the Penguins and the kids land on a planet inhabited by alligator-like characters. This guy was the Emporer. The script described him as an Elvis fan and director requested that he wear an Elvis-like jumpsuit with...
As I mentioned in my last post, I recently attended the Motion 08 animation conference in New Mexico. One of my favorite seminars was "Character Design: Capturing Ethnicity" given by Dan Haskett. Haskett is a Disney veteran who has spent the last twenty years working all over Hollywood as a character designer. He contributed design ideas to such Disney films...
Last week I attended the Motion 08 conference in New Mexico. The 4-day event was geared towards two industries: animation (2D and 3D), and motion graphics/editing. It was one of the best conferences I've attended in a while. The seminars were loaded with helpful and inspiring information, and I met a ton of great people. As an animation character designer, I...
I've been at the Motion 08 animation conference in New Mexico all week. More on that tomorrow. For now, a blog post I meant to publish earlier this week: The past weekend NBC aired another brand new episode of "3-2-1 Penguins!" for which I designed some characters. Here's a few misc. characters -Â a butterfly, firefly, and frog: The script called for the...
