Hothouse 7: Why animate when you can sandbag?
The following is a guest post by Aimée van Drimmelen as part of the Hothouse Program. *** Here’s a little video I shot the other day. Due to impending floods...
Production
With 6 production studios across the country, the NFB’s English Program has about 100 projects underway at any given time in our core genres – documentary, animation and interactive. Check out this space for information about projects currently underway and news from our production teams.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hothouse 7: Take That, Fat Cat!
The following is a guest post by Candace Couse. Today Jelena (editor) put together a presentation for the group on her role in our films. It was impressive to see...