Hothouse 7: Photoshop vs Hand Drawn
The following is a guest post by Tabitha Fisher. I’ve been working a lot in Flash over these past few weeks, but I thought you might be curious to know...
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Hothouse 7: Things We Do For Our Films…
The following is a guest post by Eva Cvijanovic. They finally convinced me to put this on the blog, it’s visual references for my Guy’s facial expressions of enamored awkwardness....
Hothouse 7: Animating Some Animating
The following is a guest post by Candace Couse. I did finally get my lights in the morning after the online test segment was due. I ended up submitting a...
Hothouse 7: Lights, Camera, Action!
The following is a guest post by Paula Gillgannon. All the pieces I have been working on over the past few weeks have finally come together. Not without a fair...
Hothouse 7: Moving Sky
The following is a guest post by Aimée van Drimmelen as part of the Hothouse Program. *** I finished shooting my under camera background sequences this week, holed up in...
Friday staff pick: What on Earth!
This Friday staff pick was selected by Marc Lavallée, Analyst, Internet Applications for NFB.ca. My favourite NFB animated film is What on Earth! made in 1964. It’s no longer a...
Hothouse 7: Animating…..
The following is a guest post by Eva Cvijanovic. I’ve been away from blogging for a while now because I was working HARD! But I’ll try and make up for...
Hothouse 7: Soap Operas and Battlestar
The following is a guest post by Andrew Hicks. Here is a clip from a Skype screen share meeting Jelena Popovick and I had regarding my first animatic. Jelena, our...
Watch Bully Dance in honour of the 2011 Day of Pink
Day of Pink (April 13, 2011) is the International Day Against Bullying, Discrimination and Homophobia in schools and communities. On social networks this week, I’ve been reading about how children...
Hothouse 7: Knitting With Acid
The following is a guest post by Candace Couse. Yesterday’s meeting with Jelena (Hothouse Editor) went really well. She had some fantastic advice which will be really helpful in structuring...
Hothouse 7: Rough Animation
The following is a guest post by Tabitha Fisher. At this point in production I’m juggling several things at once. I’ve started to roughly animate my locked scenes in Flash...
Hothouse 7: Sculpting, mixing, pouring, peeling
The following is a guest post by Paula Gillgannon. For the past couple of weeks I have spent almost every waking hour shut in the basement studio/laboratory of my home...