Count Down to ParaNorman T-12

T-12 days Happy SUnday Blog-o-sphere! have you ever wanted to be an animator? Have you ever wondered what it was like to make a movie one frame at a time? Well here is your chance. The ParaNorman website has a VERY COOL section where you can do just that. Check it out and show us what you make: http://www.paranorman.com/#open/stop-motion-zombie-lab have fun..see y'all tomorrow!

Count Down to ParaNorman T-13

T-13 days to ParaNorman Release on August 17th, 2012! With the Onlympics going on this was a great clip put out by Laika for ParaNorman. Be sure to get your best zombie outift on and get ready to head to the theaters. (ok...even if you don't wear a zombie costume you should go see it August 17th) Let's Support our Stopmotion animators.

Count down to ParaNorman T-14

T-15 days to ParaNorman Release August 17th, 2012 Here is a great clip with the Director Sam Fell. I think most of us would LOVE to "Play" for a living as well. If we're not doing what we love each and every day of our lives I thnk we need to be doing something every day to get closer to that dream. I guess it's time for me to make room to set up my animation table and get my puppets moving again. :) Have a Great day!

Count down to ParaNorman T-15

T-15 days and counting. Here is the official Trailer. How can you not be excited about this Stop motion movie release? I know my whole family is wanting to go on opening day..and we will :) Enjoy

Count down to ParaNorman T-16

Agust 1st, 2012 and only 16 days until ParaNorman releases in Theaters. This looks to be another Winning film by Laika Studios done in Wonderful stop motion animation! I am excited to see the newest creations of this creative tams and in watching some of the trailers I see some of the folks from Stopmotionanimation.com in them. Exciting! Join me in the countdown won't you. and be sure to check out their website for lots of cool downlaods and behind the scenes clips.

Paranorman Coming soon! WOOT!

Here is a great video of making Norman.

Check it out and then be sure to go see the movie August 17th!

While you're waiting to see the movie, go check out the official website. http://www.paranorman.com/ CJ

ParaNorman

OK,this looks great! Not sure how I missed the this before but next August is going to see another GREAT animation from Laika, same people who made Coraline, called ParaNorman. Check out the trailer below and as I learn more I will post it here.

Enjoy.



(thought I posted this on the 5th but somehow it was saved as a draft. Oooops! )

Pirates! Band of Misfits by Aardman animation

It's so great to see a new Stop Motion animated movie coming out. I originally posted the trailer a few months ago but here it is again with a 2nd video of great behind the scenes.

Here is the trailer , enjoy!



Here is the behind the scenes of the Latest Aardman adventure due out Spring of 2012, The Pirates! Band of misfits.

Check it out.

Pirates!! band of Misfits

OK I stumbled onto this and had to pass it on.

A new stop motion animated film by Aardman coming out in 2012!!

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet!

Looks cool.

Check it out!



LONG LIVE STOP MOTION ANIMATION!

(yeah, I love this stuff!)

Stop motion puppet shoes

Here is another tutorial from Nick Hilligoss, stop motion animator from Australia. He makes it all look so easy and creates methods that result in a great prop with an eye on practicality and budget.

Enjoy

Great Stop Motion animation face Tutorial

Nick Hilligoss is a great animator from Australia with a lot of great tutorials on his youtube page. His animations are fun and well executed with smooth animation and character.

This is a tutorial for making a stop motion animation face.

Enjoy

This 'n That

Well Tuesday night was week number 2 doing walk around magic at the local Applebees and it went well. It wasn't as busy as the previous week so next week we'll try 6:30 instead of 7:30 in hopes of more families. It was fun though and I kept busy with the folks that were there. It is good experience and exposure ..........
NOT THAT kind of exposure people!! Sheeeeh!! =P (hehe could not resist..you know me)

Also just found a cool thing on the Fangoria website. It's a live streaming viewer of the weekend of horrors vent going on this weekend. Should be cool.

As for some other things..I have not given up on Busters animated adventures and I recently built my new counter/table on which to put my animation table. Space is at a premium so i am working on ways to double duty the space I have.

Oh I was at a Dollar tree store recently and found 2 dvd's of Davey and Goliath episodes for a buck! Being as they are stop motion and since alot of folks from stopmotionanimation.com have talked about them and animated ON them..I could not pass it up..a buck each! Woot!