thisonetraveler:

“This film has long scenes where there’s time to illustrate the thought process.  All Moses does in some of them is to listen, which is very, very challenging.  To make Moses expressive, we used a lot of what some people call ‘bottom eyelid animation.’  It’s really difficult to suggest what Moses is feeling and thinking when all you’ve got to work with are the lines surrounding the eye.  There were also scenes where most of what I did were very, very subtle head moves, because I want the characters as true, as believable, and as real as possible.” — James Baxter, animator for Moses

gallusrostromegalus:

thepurpah:

‪New Concept: We take live action movies and turn them animated — allowing for more art styles, more animation jobs, a way to break through the misconception that animation is for kids, we all get more cartoons, and ultimately replace the unwanted ‘animation-to-live-action’ genre‬

Listen I’d give my left armpit for animated remakes of rubber suit monster movies, costume epics, historical dramas and every other live-action movie with an ambitious visual scheme that they maybe couldn’t quite pull off with the effects technology or the budget available to them.

nbtomomo:

genderviscera:

filenames:

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The mental shift between realising this is animated.

there are so many things great about this aside from how hardcore this mosh pit is

– the shield that gets launched into the stratosphere as soon as the armies collide
– the guy on the left side who somehow manages to do a complete 180 in all of the mayhem and dives out of frame
-the guy on the right side who decides not to get involved and runs right past the camera
– the final dude who trips in the least natural way possible

chororine:

marcanimation:

shoutout to anyone who enjoys the seemingly hellish job of rigging

#my brain is melting out through my ears#3d animation seems so hard XoX (via @carlyquinn)

as an animation student who did a bit of everything at the start of her first year, I can confirm it’s not just hard, it’s literally impossible. I can only conclude that people who do it for a living have made deals with the devil