METRO Short Film

METRO from Jacob Wyatt on Vimeo.

Last year I had the pleasure of working briefly on a short animated film.  The movie was directed by my good buddy Jake Wyatt.

Beautiful stuff.  Enjoy.

Ideas About Good Ideas

Check out this video by Stephen Johnson and RSA Animate.  It's about good ideas and where they come from.




So what do you folks think?  Do Mr. Johnson's thoughts on good ideas jive with how you live your creative life or is he missing the point?

Also, check out more goodies from RSA Animate.  They have some fun stuff going on.

New Miyazaki Movie!

The New Miyazaki film is an EarthSea story.  If you don't know the books and you are a fan of fantasy then you should check them out.  Really fun and sophisticated fantasy, not just a bunch of character class D&D stuff.

See the trailer here: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/disney/talesfromearthsea/

A Bit of Rough Animation

I made this bit of rough animation today in Flash:

Robot with signs (rough animation) from Will Strong on Vimeo.

As it turns out animating is a ton of fun, especially if you do a simple 2-D robot that doesn't require any knowledge of mass or form. I know that there are timing issues that need to be taken care of (and it compressed funny too.) But I'm rather pleased with this.

Oh, by the way, this will be the intro movie for my new website which is currently under construction.