Hothouse
Animator Jesse Gouchey on SANDDE and Stereoscopic Spray Painting
This is a guest post by Jesse Gouchey, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
Where is it saved?
ZED!
Fine-tuning dopesheets using Geppetto to polypose Sheeps Dreams over the weekend anyone?
Yes please!
SANDDE is the software...
Animator Rosa Aiello on Sand and Surrender
This is a guest post by Rosa Aiello, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
Notes for a blog post (surrender to materials):
Objects have a life of their own
Flight, the feeling that...
Animator David Barlow-Krelina on Getting 3D Particle Effects To Do What You Want Them To
This is a guest post by David Barlow-Krelina, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
It's been an intense few weeks here at Hothouse. We just reached picture lock this weekend, and in the...
Animator Susan Wolf on After Effects, Fluffy Clouds and Obsessive Tendencies
This is a guest post by Susan Wolf, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
Today, I started animating the hero of my film, a small fluffy cloud.
See, the plan is that each of...
Animator Wen Zhang on Connecting Music and Motion and Building Software from Scratch
This is a guest post by Wen Zhang, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
On paper, my job is "filmmaker", but now, two-thirds of the way through Hothouse 8, I like to think...
Animator Carrie Mombourquette on Filmmaking as Child Rearing (and Polar Bears)
This is a guest post by Carrie Monbourquette, one of 6 animators participating in this year's Hothouse program, the NFB's 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
Making a film is kind of like raising a kid. It demands all of your time, you stop going...
Heading to the Oscars: 10 Questions for Patrick Doyon
* This post is a translation. Read the original here.
This isn't the first time I've interviewed Patrick Doyon. We met at the NFB last year, and held an online chat in February 2011. At the time, Patrick was in Berlin for the world premiere...
Introducing the 6 filmmakers participating in Hothouse 8
After a stunning crop of entries for this year's edition of Hothouse (entitled Sheep Dreams), we're thrilled to present the 6 filmmakers who will be joining us in Montreal for the intensive 12-week program.
Rosa Aiello is interested in the various types of infinity, chaos,...
Want to participate in a 12-week paid animation apprenticeship at the NFB?
Attention all budding and blooming animators! Hothouse, our very own "12-week paid apprenticeship in full-on professional animation filmmaking" is once again calling for submissions.
Things are shaping up to look mighty exciting for this 8th edition. I mean, let's be real for a second: how...
Hothouse7: RED or BLUE?
I've been absent from the blogging world for a while, I was busy, you know, trying to finish my film on time.
I had my "online edit" today, where I prepared the result of my hard work for its final and only version...there could only...
Hothouse 7: The hard stuff and the easy stuff
I won't write much because after days and days and days of 14 hour days my brain is pretty much toasted, buttered and eaten. Things are going really well, but each day I think I might be a little closer to finishing something else...
Hothouse 7: Photoshop vs Hand Drawn
I've been working a lot in Flash over these past few weeks, but I thought you might be curious to know what my film is actually going to look like! In the early stages of production I did a bunch of fiddling with Photoshop...
