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Showing posts with label kyle balda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kyle balda. Show all posts
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Saturday, 1 September 2012
Gobelins Summer School: Kyle Balda
So, I'm well aware of the fact that Gobelins Summer School already is sometime back, but I would still like to update some about it. I'm planning on adding some pictures and add a story a day about it per teacher.
It'll all be short stories about the days we had their masterclasses.
Today I'll be writing about the lesson of / days with Kyle Balda.
Kyle Balda was supposed to teach fort two or three days and give an acting assignment, but he had a really tight production schedule and so it happend he only did the opening. Which was too bad, but it was quite interesting and we had a really cool teacher to replace him (Mike L. Murphy), so after all it wasn't to bad (and it helps that I have no idea what I really missed).
After receiving the email with the informatie that Kyle would only be doing the opening I thought he would just come in, say hi, tell a little bit about the summer school and leave. But! He still gave a bit of a lesson and told some interesting stuff about working on The Lorax, which was just awesome.
He told some interesting (sometimes basic) things an animator should know when they start working on something. Like the main goal in animation:
Create empathy by the audience for the character. A lump of clay could be thinking, feeling and everything. Get the feeling across!
And that you should always listen to what the character wants. You need to know your character that well to know what he or she themselves would logically do in a certain situation.
What I found really interesting is that he told us about two things, physicality and acting. Those are the two things you use in animation. They can be separated into a few different things. Physicality is either right or wrong, but acting really shows your talent as a animator.
And for a big part of his masterclass he told us about editing and quoted some things about Walter Murch's book In the Blink of an Eye. Which was really cool, because at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy you are supposed to read the book to earn some points on your Film- and Literaturelist.
He recommended the book, said we should all read it. Especially the part about the order of priority to make a cut.
Further more he recommended we use his YouTube channel for online tutorials. Here's a link to his channel:
Kyle Balda's channel
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Lydia's Portfolio
It'll all be short stories about the days we had their masterclasses.
Today I'll be writing about the lesson of / days with Kyle Balda.
Kyle Balda was supposed to teach fort two or three days and give an acting assignment, but he had a really tight production schedule and so it happend he only did the opening. Which was too bad, but it was quite interesting and we had a really cool teacher to replace him (Mike L. Murphy), so after all it wasn't to bad (and it helps that I have no idea what I really missed).
After receiving the email with the informatie that Kyle would only be doing the opening I thought he would just come in, say hi, tell a little bit about the summer school and leave. But! He still gave a bit of a lesson and told some interesting stuff about working on The Lorax, which was just awesome.
He told some interesting (sometimes basic) things an animator should know when they start working on something. Like the main goal in animation:
Create empathy by the audience for the character. A lump of clay could be thinking, feeling and everything. Get the feeling across!
And that you should always listen to what the character wants. You need to know your character that well to know what he or she themselves would logically do in a certain situation.
What I found really interesting is that he told us about two things, physicality and acting. Those are the two things you use in animation. They can be separated into a few different things. Physicality is either right or wrong, but acting really shows your talent as a animator.
And for a big part of his masterclass he told us about editing and quoted some things about Walter Murch's book In the Blink of an Eye. Which was really cool, because at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy you are supposed to read the book to earn some points on your Film- and Literaturelist.
He recommended the book, said we should all read it. Especially the part about the order of priority to make a cut.
Further more he recommended we use his YouTube channel for online tutorials. Here's a link to his channel:
Kyle Balda's channel
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Lydia's Portfolio
Friday, 13 July 2012
Two weeks of Gobelins!
The past two weeks I followed Gobelins Summer School. It was the best experience ever! Awesome masterclasses, epic teachers, and great classmates!
Most days we had masterclasses from 10 in the morning 'till 1, lunch and after that workshop with the teachers untill 5. You were allowed to start at 8 in the morning and stay untill 8 in the evening to practice some more, so that's what I did. Get as much time in Gobelins as possible! I would certainly recommand this Summer School to everyone who is interested in animation.
We got masterclasses from Fred Nagorny, who is the only permanent teacher at Gobelins. He is just brilliant. He has a really mathimatical way of approaching animation, but even though I don't really like math, it was so interesting! Not to mention how useful it was. It's a whole different way of approaching stuff, at least it is for me, but it works just great.
We had three days of masterclasses with him, which was the most time we had with one teacher, but I couldn't get enough of listening to him.
After him we would have gotten masterclasses from Kyle Balda, but because of his thight production schedule, he unfortunately was only able to do the opening. We got Mike L. Murphy instead. His lessons were really intersting. Mike explained a lot about characters, comedy, acting and marketing yourself. I got some great tips. We had Mike's masterclasses for two days.
Then we got Alexandre Heboyan for two days. He explained some more about acting and emotions, and a lot of things about the filmindustry itself, using camera's, film in general. Most of the film-stuff he told was recognizable from the lessons I got at the Filmacademy where I do my current study. He gave really good feedback during the workshops.
The last masterclass was give by Yoshi Tamura. Oh, I was so looking forward to it! But the biggest part of the lesson we got to see his work and he told a lot about his expierence, which were both really great to hear about too.
During the workshops the teachers of the masterclasses helped and there were about four other teachers who didn't give masterclasses, but helped out at the workshops. One of them was Vincent Garcia. He helped me a lot during the workshops and I learned so much of him.
It were two really intense weeks. Everything about it was just wow!
I will miss it a lot, but I'm really happy I got to experience this.
Walkcycle for Fred's assignment:
Unfinished blocking for Mike's acting / lipsync assignment (I will finish this later on):
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Lydia's Portfolio
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