Animator Hans Bacher entry over Easter weekend.  I would have liked to have been aware of this during last weekends trip to Amboise.
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as I mentioned in some earlier post, the idea at disney was to have the BEAUTY AND THE BEAST story take place in the french LOIRE-area. there were some earlier locations like the black forest in southern germany and the neighbouring french alsace, but – maybe because of the french author CHARLES PERRAULT – everybody seemed to be happy with the loire area with its beautiful castles.

I also have a few pictures.

Rad.   Every month, animators compete by completing an eleven second clip using the given sound material. 
The 11 Second Club

Here’s a great segment from Disney’s 1946 “Make Mine Music”: All the Cats Join in.  It’s fabulous.

The background is very minimal.  It’s drawn in place as the characters need it.  This piece is very much about how the characters convey the excitement of the music, some hot Benny Goodman jazz.  The enthusiasm of these kids is positively contagious, as they rear back and fling themselves from point A and go skidding and scrambling while overshooting point b every time.  And great non-rotoscoped dancing.  I dig it.

One of the more endearing things I find about France is that comic books are broadly accepted as a form of art. 

This weekend in Blois there is the 25th annual BD Boum, with all sorts of things happening all around town. 

I don’t think there will be a lot of cosplay going on, though.

bd BOUM – Festival de Bande Dessinée à Blois

Picking up where the Bros. Chapps started.

Update: Dr. Slough written up  Here

I noticed an older post on Bangazee, a blog about kids’ animation authored by Gred MCleod of the most awesome Brothers MCleod:

I think this has always been one of my favorites since early childhood, but besides that it’s a great cartoon in almost every way.

The good folks at Trick or Script have released a new freebie plugin, which brought me to think about all the little things one can do to juice up productivity in Flash. (more…)

Hip, modern stylized design. Killer design.
Adventures In Music : Toot, Whistle, Plunk And Boom.