And another one by the same stop motion animator...

http://hayleymorris.net/index.php?/commercials/paragard/

Awesome Stop Motion Animated Commercial!

Includes some production stills:

http://hayleymorris.net/index.php?/commercials/haynes-and-boone/

Amazing student film, all traditional hand drawn!

http://motionographer.com/2012/01/27/this-idea-is-not-working-by-henrique-barone/

Cool stop motion app for iPad!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/istopmotion-for-ipad/id484019696?mt=8

Good deal on external hard drives

Jacob Berrier found this inexpensive alternative to G-Force and Lacie external hard drives and wanted to share this with the class:

Seagate's GoFlex drives are around $140/ terabyte and $20 for the FireWire 800 adapters, cheaper alternatives to LaCie and G-Drive. I included amazon links to them, respectively: 

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FreeAgent-Portable-External-STAA1000100/dp/B003ELOSI2

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FreeAgent-GoFlex-Upgrade-FireWire/dp/B003IT6PHC/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1326778841&sr=1-1

Thanks Jacob!

New Google Site for Class

Hi Students, there's now a Google Site available to you for the class:

https://sites.google.com/a/c.ringling.edu/md-120_s12/

There's an updated syllabus and course outline there now, as well as the brief for your Animator Profile assignment.

I will update the PDFs on the webshare early next week.  If you printed or copied those older versions of those documents, please discard them and refer to these newer versions for any information you may need.

Sick and wrong but oh so right...?

I love this piece from MK12 -- however, just a warning that it does get pretty sick and disturbing in parts towards the end.  But it's a great blend of 2D, 3D, and stop motion animation:
http://vimeo.com/25474499

Welcome!

Welcome to MD120, section 1; AKA Animation Techniques!

I'm looking forward to getting to know and to working with you all.

Here's some fun stop motion links to get us started:

Google E-Books:  http://vimeo.com/17574435
Honda:  http://vimeo.com/17137354
Nation Geographic:  http://vimeo.com/33805143
AICP:  http://vimeo.com/12377261