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| QNA - INSPIRING MINDS PART 1 |
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 Q: 3D ARK asks: "Who or what inspires you?"
A: Patrick Thomas, Animator, Blizzard Entertainment writes:
At blizzard we are influenced to be very creative and everyone is inspired
buy most of the better fantasy artist's like for instance "BROM", or
"Frazetta". I know for a fact that we also love to pick up the latest copies
of "S.M.H" a fantastic hobbyist mag out of Japan. Also what is popular right
now is a book called "CREATURE CORE" it is another artist out of Japan who
does phenomenal stuff.
A: Rachel Levine, Character Animator, Walt Disney Imagineering writes:
I can't really say what inspires my work...I don't think I've done enough
to show what's bopping around between my synapses. But there is a lot out
there that gets me up in the morning, and keeps me chugging away.
When I was a kid, I wrote out a list of movies that inspired me. Star
Wars Trilogy. Dark Crystal. Labyrinth. ET. This short documentary
movie my dad got on videotape about Claymation at Will Vinton Studios.
Neverending Story. Dune. Just about anything with a character that
wasn't human, or entirely human.
In High school, I added zombie movies. Day of the dead, dawn of the dead,
night of the living dead, Return of the living dead, Evil dead 2. I was
fascinated by how they made corpses, and the cool make-up effects.
Until I saw the documentary on Apocalypse Now called Hearts of Darkness,
and I decided I had to go to film school.
College showed me what I was really missing. Great films. Double
Indemnity. Marty. The Apartment. The Bridge on the River Kwai. Papillon.
Laurence of Arabia. Singing in the Rain. Basically that AFi list plus a
bunch more. There is a great small chain of video stores in New York City
called Kim's where videos are organized as they should be, by director, or
screenwriter, or more specific genre...I saw a whole lot of great movies
there. Kirosawa. John Ford. Kubrick. Lumet. Jimmy Stewart movies.
Scorsese. Coen Brothers. Hitchcock. 70's movies. And a ton more.
I'm completely addicted.
I love animated films, and I watch them all the time. But I'm just as
jazzed about live action films where actors really make you feel
something, and the director is placing the camera somewhere to make you
feel something, not just at a good angle to see the actors do their thing.
Fascinating lighting. Dialog that has been well thought out, and is
authentic to the character. Good storytelling.
Right now I'm going through this Scorsese documentary called "A personal
Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American movies" (yes, i had to look
that up :)). It's interviewing him about movies throughout the years, and
what inspired him. There is a lot of clips of great films in that that
I'm trying to watch separately. I also aim to see all the movies in the
documentary "Visions of Light".
Lots of great stuff out there to inspire a person.
Back to my cave now. (shuffle...shuffle)
A: Shawn Kelly, Animator, ILM writes:
Movies: Empire Strikes Back changed my life when I was a kid. Just
about any classic Disney film inspires me (Sword in the Stone, Jungle
Book, Rescuers Down Under too), but especially some of the shorts
like the Sport Goofy shorts. More recent inspirational flicks would
include Wallace and Gromit, Mulan, Cats Don't Dance, and A Bug's Life. . .
Visually amazing movies like Dark City and Kundun really inspire me as
well.
Bernie Wrightson, Brian Froud, Jeff Smith, C. S. Morse, Frank Frazetta,
Dave Mckean, Frank and Ollie - some super inspirational illustrators and
storytellers for me. . .
Animation done by certain animators really inspires me like crazy - Glen
Keane and James Baxter's work, of course, but there are a lot of others.
Certain co-worker's and friend's work blows my mind and really gets me
excited about animating! Tim Harrington, Lou Dellarosa, Kevin Martel,
Tim Harrington, Glen McIntosh, Rick O'Connor, Bobby Beck - those guys are
amazing and their work reminds me every day of how much I still get to
learn - and that's an exciting prospect!
Bryce Courtenay's book "The Power of One" is not only the best book I've
ever read, but is also the most inspirational thing I've ever read - since
we're on the subject!
Oh, and my collection of toys which has finally outgrown my desk!
shawn ;)
A: Steph Greenberg writes:
I've always been inspired by the classic Warner Bros. and Tex Avery cartoons,
as well as some of the modern cartoons inspired by the classics. I think the
most influential Disney film on me in Pinocchio, which was lush in the
environments and the character movement, and IMHO still hasn't been topped.
The first film with computer graphics that got me thinking that it was
something I wanted to pursue, was "The Last Starfighter", because I was
convinced that eventually that power would come down to something on my
desktop, and that I'd be able to take cartoon style animation into a new
dimension. It took longer than I thought it would.
I also have the usual science fiction influences: Gibson, Adams, Niven,
Pournelle and Barnes, Asimov, Phillip K Dick, Fred Saberhagen, Somtow
Sakuritkul, Neal Stephenson, etc.
Film: The Maltese Falcon, Treasure of the Sierra Madres, some Preston Sturgis,
Vanishing Point, The Three Stooges, Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Pulp Fiction, John
Woo, Jackie Chan, Sergio Leoni, almost any Riddley Scott, almost any Paul
Verhoeven (I really like Flesh and Blood), Evil Dead (1,2 and Army of
Darkness).
TV: Max Headroom, almost any cool commercial, The Addams Family (does that
surprise anyone?), Xena (which inspired my "body switch" test for character
development), A&E's Biography, TLC and Discovery, numerous insipid sitcoms,
Brisco County, Wild Wild West. Sometimes Star Trek DS9 and other treks where
they go into Klingon culture, an interesting exercise in thorough development
of an alien civilization. I'm sure there's more, but offhand I can't recall
them.
A: Matt Wood, Freelance 3D Artist writes:
Hmmm, let's see now, some things that get me wondering off in a world of my
own...
Star Wars got me started - I think that's obvious if you see my work
Everything (almost) by Steven Spielberg
Big fat books about architecture (I don't bother reading the words)
Old crumbling castles in the English countryside
2000 AD & Judge Dredd (not the film - oh please)
Crackpot stories about UFO's - especially obscure ones from the 60's or
South America
Big machines of any description
Really really bad weather
Airwolf (really)
The works of Arthur C Clarke (back when I used to have time to read)
Stanley Kubrick's spooky, quiet dialogue scenes
Beer & barmaids (how did that get in there?)
Ugly, clumsy Russian military hardware
Mean looking Western military hardware
The Lord of the Rings
Insects, especially ants (looks like somebody beat me to the film idea
though)
Cheesy Victorian-style sci-fi films with Doug McClure, Peter Cushing and
the like
The Fifth Element (perfect in every respect)
Sitting down and watching the sky or the sea or both
Ridley Scott's photography (didn't like Blade Runner all that much though)
Old Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers serials
Preposterous conspiracy theories
Corny sci-fi illustration from the 70's
Really big buildings that weren't built between 1940 and 1980
Anybody who can work one of those pencil things
and ... the thing I find most inspiring of all ...
Pretty much anything that could have been done so much better ... |
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