Animation &Daily post 02 Sep 2006 07:25 am
Skeletons
– In case you haven’t seen this yet, the Arario Gallery, a Korean gallery, has on display some skeletons for noted animation characters. The Roadrunner, obviously, is pictured to the left. Felix the Cat, Mickey the Mouse and the Coyote are also depicted as are photos of the constructions in process. Though there are enough photographic stills of the sculptures and a number of sketches, I wish there were a bit more text to let us in on the reasoning behind them. (Thanks to Boing Boing.)
- This is the second version of this idea I’ve seen. Michael Paulus, on his website, displayed skeletal systems for 22 cartoon characters. These are pretty hilarious if you haven’t seen them.
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More imagination has gone into these illustrations than went into the Korean sculptures. Paulus is an exceptional artist, and you might take a browse around his other art works displayed.
– For real animation skeletons, let’s talk 3D armatures.
Would be puppet animators out there who are looking for realistic (meaning cost-controlled) armatures for their puppets, go to Monterey Motion Puppets to get instructions on how to do it.
They also have a number of their armatures on display at the site. “Junkman,” pictured on the right, is one of their “skeletons.”
