Proudly! I say, "I am caught up on my reading!"

It may be a struggle for me... but I am current now with my reading schedule. And hopefully it will stay this way (crossing my fingers, *grin*)
I started off reading The Illusion of Life. What an awesome read... I've been taking some handwritten notes from my reading in hopes of 'hammering-in' the details into my brain.

The book not only outlines, in detailed information, the 12 principals of animation... but it also, so far, has offered up some other lists that were used by some of the other animators there at Disney as well. For instance, Fred Moore had a list with 14 points on it, and Bill Tytla had a list of points to remember as well. In a broad generalization, I suppose you could say that Fred Moore's list was strong towards the idea of 'staging' and that Bill Tytla's list was geared strongly towards the idea of the character possessing inner feelings and showing strong emotions.

There was a mention in the book about things being 'plastic'... as they use the term...it means 'pliable'. I don't know about y'all but I had to stop and think about that word for a moment. In the modern since of the word, I don't think of 'pliable'... I actually think of the opposite. I think of plastic surgery... and folks like Joan Rivers... and how they have shot up with so much Botox that they don't have any movement in their face anymore.

On a side note, one of the reasons why I began to fall behind on my reading a little bit was because I got to go to a one day seminar on Photoshop. It was given by the very awesome!... master of Photoshop... Bert Monroy
He's got some great video tutorials up on the web at http://www.revision3.com/pixelperfect

Till the next Post... Cheers!
~Net