My thoughts on something

My friend who worked on Garfield 2 with me at R&H sent me this.

This is awesome!

“Garfield 2″ breaks box office record in China

I love dragon stuff!!! hope the story will be good too.
Eragon trailer

I have some friends who made into the summer animation internship at Pixar. Isn’t it awesome?! It’s even more awesome that some of them got hired as fix animators after the internship!! Woo hoo!! Congrats guys! I saw some works they did during the internship, they look great.

I think internships are very useful to get your foot into the industry. I did my internship at Rhythm & Hues Studios. That was great experience and fun!! If you are an animation student it’s definitely worth trying it.

Oh, by the way I went upto SF during the long labor day weekend. It’s been just two months since I left SF for LA…but I felt kinda weird…can’t explain…but I love SF!! And it’s always great to see friends. I hope I’ll go upto SF again soon.

LA is hot. I finished my training and got my first few shots at DreamWorks Animation!!

It’s late though I had a chance to watch Monster House. As many people said the story was pretty good. There were some parts where it should’ve spent more time on, but I think it was entertaining. I know it’s called “Monster House” but I thought it was totally for kids, in fact it’s a PG film. Yeah, it’s definitely a scary film for kids!!

As you might know, most character animation is motion capture. As an animator, some animation was weird or weak, it would’ve been cool if characters had been animated by good animators. However the animation of the house looked awesome!

Over all it was a good movie, pretty entertaining. but I bet I’m not the only one who still think it could’ve done in live action or keyframe animation….Is motion capture cheaper than those? Will motion capture kill our jobs?

there aren’t many things about animation around me going on…

I didn’t have time to watch any of CG animated films I mentioned in my past posts…

Many of you guys who read this blog know AnimationMentor.com, don’t you? I have some friends taking it and know some animators teaching it. I just found they posted the student showcase reel on their website. well…..I may be very late finding this?!.. anyway, there are some nice animation clips in there, very inspiring! I think it’s worth checking it out.

I haven’t post my animation since…..last summer?! damn it…I really hope to start working on some test animation and put it on here.

Well, I know many of you already saw this, but go check out what this year’s siggraph was like!

I haven’t had a chance to watch any of three animated films, Monster House, The Ant Bully, and Barnyard yet. I have friends who worked on those films so hope I’ll see them soon. I heard some good and not good things about them…..anyway, I really hope they will do good jobs for us.

well, unfortunatelly I didn’t have a chance to see the ant bully though, as you guys might know it didn’t do a good job at the big box office its first weekend. Since I haven’t see it I won’t say anything about the film, but I have some friends who worked on it and know there were so many talented animators working on it…it’s very sad that the film didn’t do a good job and DNA production that created the film let almost all people go…

Those who worked on the film had or have to get new jobs. They are experienced animators but I heard some animators are still looking for jobs…I bet some studios are trying to hire animators at Siggraph now but the job market isn’t very hot.

Monster House from Imageworks came out last week and Barnyard from Omation is coming out this week. I have friends who worked on those films so I really hope they will do good jobs. However, releasing an animated film three weeks in a row would hurt themselves…don’t you think?

I think Siggraph 2006 is coming this weekend in Boston. Unfortunately, I won’t go. I haven’t checked any sketches or courses though, I’m pretty sure there will be very interesting lectures or classes about making of VFX or Animation stuff, like Pirates of Caribbean, Cars, or Over the Hedge.

If you are going to Siggraph, have fun seeing cool things, hanging out and talking to people. It would be cool if any of you who goes to Siggraph could tell us what’s up there in Boston.

I’m assuming that Siggraph 2007 would be in LA, if not it would be anywhere in west coast at least.

I created new blog here and stopped old blog in blogger. I just started my new job as an animator at DreamWorks Animation.

I’ll try to write something here as much as I could, so please check back.