Greg Manchess is a prolific award-winning American illustrator. Greg’s outlook on being an artist is sobering and inspiring.
Category: Insight
Inglourious Basterds — The Elements of Suspense
Examining the elements of suspense that Quentin Tarantino put to use in the opening scene of Inglourious Basterds.
Helm’s Deep: How To Film An Epic Battle
An excellent break down of story structure and how to keep an audience engaged.
Ten Meter Tower
Ten Meter Tower is a social experiment which found people that had never jumped off a 10 meter tower and filmed the results. All manner of reactions, inhibitions, insecurities, and fears are on display from wide range of people. No …
Pete Docter on Nick Animation Podcast:
Pete shares what it was like to be one of the first animators at Pixar, how constraints can elevate storytelling, and he even drops a few hints at what’s next for him at Pixar.
The Unsung Heroes of Cinema
A look at three different films all in different stages of the restoration process, and how film restoration as a whole has evolved and continues to evolve in an increasingly digital world.
The Making of A Monster Calls
Glassworks Visual Effects shares a comprehensive breakdown of their work on A Monster Calls.
Top 10 Performances on Film
Cinefix takes on the unenviable task of picking the top ten performances (on film) of all time. How Daniel-Day Lewis did not make this list is beyond me. Still it’s worth a look.
Basic Broom Handling Technique #2
Felix Sputnik shows off his ability to draw the human form from any angle in this seriously impressive “exercise in freestyle 2D scene planning”.
LvlUp Your Animation with Jason Shum
Riot Games Senior Animator, Jason Shum, has released a series of tutorials online for anyone interested in learning the key skills necessary to break into the games industry. Jason has many years of experience teaching at Gnomon and iAnimate, and will …
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