HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT SOUND LATELY?

Interesting experiment of generating sound from a chemical process.
Through a process called Solvation, the motion of the ink is tracked by a camera and converted into sound through an algorithm. All of this in real time.
Awesome stuff.

LIVE DRAWING AND PHOTOGRAPHIC REFERENCE

Visit http://fineart.sk/ for free photo reference of anatomy, clothing and textures.

It's a great resource and it has tons of links for more useful (but paid) services.

 

 

It has weird stuff going on. So, check it!

NOTATIONS and VISUAL SCORES

How can you turn this: 

Into this:

It's called, visual scoring, and if you are interested in developing experimental sounds and music you should check the theory that spawned it all.

NOTATIONS by JOHN CAGE.

Free as a PDF book

ADVENTURE TIME Free Book!

Frederator is giving for free a 266 page book of best quotes and Storyboard frames of Adventure Time.
"Wit and Wisdom in the Land of Ooo: Great Quotations from Adventure Time" Enjoy it and download it if you want.

CHUCK AMUCK

It's 2012. The world didn't end, neither did the blog. After finals and well deserved rest...let's inaugurate the year 2012 with a documentary about Chuck Jones.

CHUCK AMUCK, The Movie (1991)
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"Bugs is an aspiration, Daffy is a realization"
   Chuck Jones.

Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter,producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. He directed many of the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester, Pepé Le Pew and a slew of other Warner characters. Three of these shorts (Duck Amuck, One Froggy Evening and What's Opera, Doc?) were later inducted into the National Film Registry. Chief among Jones' other works was the famous "Hunting Trilogy" of Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1951–1953).

After his extraordinary career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing memorable cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. He later started his own studio, Chuck Jones Productions, which created several one-shot specials, and periodically worked on Looney Tunes related works.

 

Chuck Jones' website

ANIMAL LOCOMOTION: The Muybridge Works at University of Pensilvania..

Here's a nice book for those interested in animal locomotion. It's a study on Muybridge's method and result of his work with animals at the University of pensilvania. It has a deeper explanation of how animals move around with very clear diagrams.

Like these fellas here:

And the best of it... It's public domain.
Download it here as a PDF
(Right click...save link as...for downloading it)

FRIDAY BONUS: Blair, Dinos and truckers

Mary Blair's 100th birthday

8 bit: The amazing work of french animator Jeremy Perin sent by Joe.

and Dinosaurs from 16 bit

Have a nice weekend.