I’m back from Siggraph, which was a blast (although a bit hot). Met some fun people and it was unreal seeing my film on the big screen.

At Siggraph I saw some clips of Sony’s Cloudy with a chance of meatballs (in 3d, which I don’t find all that exciting) and this looks like it’s going to be a really fun movie. I’m really digging some of the animation choices made on this film. For example I find the way Flint walks toward the garbage can on the pier in the ‘burger rain’ sequence (you might know what I’m talking about, if not you will in a couple of weeks) awesome. It’s just a fantastic walk!

Anyway, I can’t wait to see this film.

Jason Schleifer wrote a really nice post about GTD and some ideas about how to use it for animation.

He’s also got some nice posts about using gtdagenda.com and other nice stuff. Check it out.

Yup, all the rumors are true, I’m a father now and by the way, it’s the best! This awesome boy was born Feb. 25th which makes him almost 10 weeks old. Man, time sure flies when you’re having fun (and animating for Framestore here in Iceland (a two week gig on Sherlock Holmes)).

I somehow forgot, but my short friends? was accepted to the Siggraph computer animation festival.

Too bad I can’t go to New Orleans, that would have been a blast.

Since this last season of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars is over I thougt now would be an appropriate time to write a little bit about posing that has been on my mind these last couple of weeks.

Dancers sometimes push their poses to the extreme, it’s what makes their dances look good and makes it fun watching them and the same goes for animation. Animation without good posing can at best be really well timed crap. Pushing my poses is something that I have struggled with in my animation and I’m constantly trying to get myself to push the pose a little bit further since it’s always easier pulling back a little then trying to push them more after the fact.

A couple of weeks ago while watching an episode of Dancing with the Stars I started paying attention to the pro-dancer’s posing versus the star’s. The pro usually takes his poses a little bit further and that makes all the difference. Here is a picture from one of the last episodes of DwtS:

Here you can clearly see the difference between the pro (on the right) and the amateur (on the left). His dynamic pose is full of character and engergy while her pose is rigid and boring. More examples:

These examples clearly show how important posing is. But you already knew that.

Seems VFS has decided to put my film on Youtube, just to let the world know.

Link to Friends? on Youtube

Well, last Saturday me and Halldora went to see the Animation Show 3, a collection of 14 animated shorts. It was really fun seeing all these diffirent styles of animation coming together. Some of my favorites of the show are Don Herzfeldt’s “Everything will be OK”, Bill Plympton’s “Guide Dog”, “Overtime” and “Collision”. “Collision” was really interesting since it showed only shapes being animated and yet managed to tell a story (of sorts), it’s always fun to see something totally new (to me).

So all in all it was a really fun show and I recommend that you try and see it when you can.


Tomorrow I am going to see the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre. Hope that will be as fun as the Animation Show.

This is a shot test I just did. It’s fun.

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