Wednesday, November 23, 2011

The soul of drawing

Photos by Heather Dresbach

Back from another great CTN animation expo.  The presentation Alex Woo and I gave seemed to go over very well- we had an enthusiastic reception and I was pleased that several folk approached us afterwards to tell us it had inspired them.  Apologies to our marvellous model Daniella who I turned into a hippo!
Crookie, Mo-ris, the Grillos and Jonez by Jamie Bolio

I caught a couple of great seminars- Andreas Deja did a live version of his Deja View blog with musical accompaniment by Richard Sherman! The mighty Oscar Grillo made an impressive presentation of his animation career and an inspirational slideshow of his personal work and artistic influences.

I promised to post some photos from Alex's Gesture class at Pixar so here they are.

Terry Song, Manny Hernandez and John Nevarez pitch their gesture story sequences

Diagrams by Alex Woo

 Holger Liehe

 Matt Jones

 Terry Song
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13 comments:

  1. Quentin Lebegue6:14 pm

    All those drawings are awesome !

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  2. chromasketch8:37 pm

    the secret of gesture soul drawing is out!! :D Are they going to repost your presentation at CTN like they did for the previous years?

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  3. Matt Jones9:06 pm

    Alas no, it wasn't recorded, but someone promised to send me photos of the event.

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  4. Vela9:28 pm

    Wow, these are all such fantastic drawings, very inspiring. Thank you for sharing. :D

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  5. Domee12:35 am

    ah, so that's why you were taking pictures that day haha...

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  6. Jamie Iles12:51 am

    Wow, thats awesome.

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  7. Matt Jones1:31 am

    Thanks Jamie.
    Domee-now you know! Hope you don't mind me posting yours?

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  8. chromasketch4:00 am

    Did you guys pass out a handout to the class? what are those notes on the horse there? did everyone get a copy?

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  9. Geeo8:00 pm

    Great drawings! Matt are you going to be teaching a class outside of Pixar? Alex's class was great, it would be cool to see you teach one where you instruct environment observational drawings. I really like the sketches you post of buildings and streets etc. Great stuff man!

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  10. Matt Jones2:17 am

    Chromasketch-Alex makes handouts for us base on the priinciples he teaches in his Schoolism class. He showed some of them at CTN-X last weekend.

    Geeo- great idea! I'll have to gauge interest-perhaps a day long sketchcrawl in SF where I demonstrate my approach to drawing settings and give advice on the sketches of say a group of 10?

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  11. Anonymous7:03 pm

    sweet drawings, thanks for posting!

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  12. Oscar Grillo6:53 pm

    Great work, Jonzie!...If I had seem the portrait you drew of me before I would have stolen it!

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  13. Jampix9:16 pm

    Really nice stuff Matt, I'm glad to see you're doing so well and having a ball doing so :)

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