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Stephanie Olesh

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Stephanie Olesh and I am currently a freelance visual development artist.

 

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Nothing too crazy. I’ve been a cashier and a shelf stocker, and I can operate a copy machine. One summer I had a job reading submissions for children’s books at a major publishing house. Another time my job was to keep arcade machines filled with prize tickets.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I’m really proud for having worked on numerous projects at Gas Powered Games. Working there as a concept and UI artist was really the best postgraduate education I could have asked for. I loved working as part of that team, and I think we made some really unique work.

 

Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
I’m from Omaha, Nebraska. Although Continue reading

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Jane Davies

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Jane Davies – Animator, Director.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Cleaning public toilets in the height of summer, it was truly grim.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
Animation Director on the ‘A Productions’ animated episodes of Frankenstein’s Cat (CBBC series).  Most recently I directed the song section of ‘A Liar’s Autobiography’ a film about Graham Chapman. Different animation companies made sections of that film and I was involved in the ‘A for Animation’ section. That was quite an honor. I put a lot into it and I am very proud of it. There were only 5 of us that did the majority of the work (some additional help from some animators on bits of it) and it was in Stereoscope too. I’m so pleased with the end result.  I also was very proud to be trusted with the characters of Jamie Smart on a micro short we did for fun of Looshkin. I’m doing another one but it’s taking much longer as it’s a little more complicated and I do them in my spare time (1 or 2hrs a day).

 

Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
Stevenage which is north of London. I did some animation in Foundation Art which was a defining moment for me, I had previous done a 2 yr preparatory art course exploring all areas of art trying to find what I wanted to do. When I did my first scene after reading about how to do it in the library, then showed my tutor I knew then and their that animation was what I wanted to do so I took the leap and studied animation at Glamorgan Centre of Art & Design University in Wales; which was the Continue reading

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Redrawing Taylor Swift – Shake it Off Rotoscoped

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhT_gVh_73w

49 University of Newcastle Australia animation students were each given 52 frames of Taylor Swift’s Shake it Off music video, and together they produced 2767 frames of lovingly hand-drawn rotoscoped animation footage. http://bit.ly/1PzUznI Thank you to all the students of DESN2801: Animation 1 for your enthusiasm, good humour and terrific roto skills!

Compare our rotoscope to Taylor Swift’s original music video here: http://www.vevo.com/watch/taylor-swif…

DESN2801: Animation 1 is a first year subject in the Bachelor of Visual Communications degree at the University of Newcastle Australia.http://bit.ly/1PzUznI

Rotoscopers:
Jack Atkinson
Catherine Barham
Joel Bateman
India Beletich
Shannon Bellamy
Simon Besseny
Oliver Blunck
Todd Bourke
Silje Buxton Soldal
Ryan Cheeseman
Joyous Colley
James Corrigan
Tallulah Cunningham
Garrettsen Eckerson
Amy Ey
Jessica Farrugia
Sean Fitzpatrick
Callum Foot
Cristyn Franks
Christopher Garth
Katarina Gerritsen
Eloise Gordon
Thomas Hadland
O’Jhan Hakaraia
Gillian Hewitt
James Hodgett
Lachlan Keevill
Jessica Komene
Zoe Lawrence
Katie MacLean
Jenna Malinowski
Zoe Mallett
Sarah McDonald
Sam McIntosh
Renee McIntosh
Liam Montgomery
Luke O’Donnell
Belinda O’Hara
Iliana Oakes
Jace Prasil
Craig Reed
Candela Riveros
Daniel Smith
Kent Spencer
Hannah Stroud-Watts
Anna Thomas
Erin Thompson
Sebastian Turner
Andrew White
Lecturer: Jane Shadbolt

 

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Phree device on Kickstarter seeks to let you write on anything

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Here’s an interesting device that seeks to allow you to write on anything and have it instantly transfer to your phone. It’s more or less like a Wacom pen but there’s no tablet. Anything you draw anywhere transfers in real time to your phone. Kinda cool but I wonder if that means you can draw on the screen itself and it will still work. After all you can draw on anything so…

Apparently the pen will also let you talk on it like a phone should you so desire to look that silly.

If you’re interested in backing them, drive your browser over here.

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Hans Perk

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Hans Perk, director, editor, compositor, head of IT at A. Film, Denmark, and CEO and producer for A. Film L.A., Inc.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I have never done an honest day’s work, sorry. I started studying Art History at the University of Amsterdam, but found that I was itching to put my pencil to the paper myself, and as such I have only worked in animation since 1979.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I was proud to work on the 1986 Academy Award winning short film Anna & Bella, as assistant director, animator and editor. The director and head animator, legendary Börge Ring and myself were the only two people working on that film on a daily basis. After that, basically all of A. Film’s output since 1988, in most capabilities, but especially Miffy the Movie – which I directed.

Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
I was born in Amsterdam, Holland, and started my interest in high school as collector of Disneyana, which soon made me wonder Continue reading