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Posemaniacs

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

I’ve been a bit too housebound lately; I haven’t been getting out to any life drawing classes. So today I decided to spend some time drawing on the Posemaniacs site. It’s not a substitute for live models, but there’s a iphone app and a 30 second pose option so it’s pretty fun.

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Favorite Mentors I’ve never had, part 1- Kevin Koch

Monday, July 14th, 2008

One of the great things about being an Animation Mentor student is getting access to working professional animators as teachers for an extended period of time. It has a downside though, and that downside is mentor envy. There simply is no way you will land a class with every teacher you want over the course of the program. AM, by making the weekly critiques of all students available, has given us the tools to stalk and learn from those mentors which we admire.

Kevin Koch makes it extra easy, because he also has a blog called Synchrolux where he chronicles his studies of filmmaking and animation. Want to see an entire movie broken down to see if good characters are on the right and bad on the left? Kevin’s got that. Want to learn about how and why humans blink? Kevin has several well researched posts on that too. Check it out!

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