Holy cow! New clips from the upcoming Sylvain Chomet film "The Illusionist". Sylvain Chomet was also the director of "The Triplets of Belleville" so if you've seen that film, The Illusionist has his style written all over it. I can't even start to describe how awesome these are...so I won't! Enjoy!
This one has to be my favorite clip. Chomet’s films have a such great knack for caricature. Not just caricatured drawings, but caricatured movement and acting too. I can’t get enough of the trapeze painters! They're such over the top exaggerations of oddball characters that I can't help but laugh at them. So very very well done.
Here's something I posted on the Animation Mentor forums a few months back. I don't really consider myself someone who's in a position to be doling out animation advice to anyone, but these are a handful of tips that I've come across over the years that have helped me. I can't really take credit for most of this advice, since I probably just read a lot of it somewhere else. I don't mean to take credit for someone else's ideas, I just can't remember who they belong to now. Anyway, I hope t... Continue reading...
Here's one of the scenes that really hammered home for me what subtext really is. It's one of the coolest things about acting for me. What really gets me about this scene is Robin Williams' performance. It really is a great scene. Take a look:
If you think about it, all he's really doing is listening and letting Sally Field talk. And even though Field is the one that's talking, the scene really isn't about her at all. It's about Robin ... Continue reading...
