WATCH! ILM’s Hal Hickel Talk – on Creating Believable Giant Robot/Creature Performances and Collaboration – With BONUS: PACIFIC RIM Pipeline Special

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Great for Animators and Animation Enthusiasts alike;  ILM’s Animation Supervisor for  PACIFIC RIM,  Hal Hickel, talks about inspiration, the creative process, and creating believable performances with a sense of size, weight, scale, and a bit of style. As well as what it was like to collaborate with Director Guillermo del Toro…

~ Enjoy!

Filmed during the Bloomberg Businessweek Design Conference 2014.

BONUS Feature! 
Here’s the “Pipeline Special” featurette from FX Guide TV discussing, in this elaborate behind-the-scenes video, how PACIFIC RIM’s mind-blowing visual effects were made…

~ Enjoy!

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WATCH! – Behind the Magic Collection: The VFX of “Pacific Rim”

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Awesome PACIFIC RIM: VFX breakdowns from Industrial Light & Magic, showcasing… giant mech warriors waging war… against giant epic monster invaders.  For over 2 years the team at Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco, Singapore and Vancouver, in collaboration with Rodeo FX, Miranda Studio, Legacy Effects, and others, worked tirelessly to bring Guillermo del Toro’s science fiction epic “Pacific Rim” to life… check it out ~ Enjoy!

( Love the design note about starting with silhouettes first… )

BONUS Feature! 
Now here is the movie trailer ~ Enjoy!

… Crazy, Awesome, Fun.

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So… You Want To Be… a GAME DESIGNER

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By request,… here is some fun & informative videos on what it takes to be a Great Game Designer.

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Meet Ramiro Corbetta, Game Designer at Powerhead Games

 Ramiro has turned his philosophy degree, and quality assurance experience into one of the best jobs ever: Game Designer. While playing video games is a key part of Ramiro’s job (you gotta know your product!) the workday of this Game Designer is spent driving the design process from pitch document to finished profit-making product – and doing intense industry research.

Becoming a Video Game Designer

*BLOGGER NOTE: I don’t know about the school, but the info and advice is good.
And now… 
… for Fun… 

Bonus Feature!
BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT – 20th Anniversary – A Message From Blizzard (2/8/11)

BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT – History Retrospective
Watch how Blizzard Entertainment grew from a small startup company to one of the best game developers … in the world.

 Enjoy!

Pixar’s Presto | Doug Sweetland – INTERVIEW – ANIMATIC & SHORT FILM

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Pixar’s Presto is as perfect an homage to classic Hollywood cartoons as could be – fast paced, strong poses, appealing characters and visual gags, charming and original – pure awesome from frame one.  Directed by Doug Sweetland, Pixar veteran, award winning animator and academy award nominated director.  Doug Sweetland talks about the making of the short film Presto…

Enjoy!

NOW… a… SPECIAL TREAT… Here is a ‘rough’ story-ideas-animatic which includes a number of ideas not seen in the final version, done in almost a story pitch style.

And now… here is the ‘final’ animatic
(It would be great to see more stuff like this on the Pixar DVDs)

Now… here is… the film…

  Enjoy!

FYI:
Pixar re-used the same theater in the very beginning of their feature film UP 
– when you see Young Carl Fredricksen sitting in the theater watching the news reels of Charles Muntz’s adventures.
 

EXTRA Bonus Feature!
The music of Presto
Scot Stafford says a quick word about the musical themes and general approach to scoring Presto…

  Enjoy!

Shown in theaters before Pixar’s 2008 feature length film WALL-E.