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. song-sketch: le commun des mortels .

A song-sketch of the song Le commun des mortels of Pomplamoose.

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. snatch rant .

Last semester, JD had an eye opening lecture about eye-direction in a sequence/shot or demo reel.

I watched Snatch today. I'm such a big fan of the movie I thought I'd share what I've seen:

One of my favorite sequences of the movie is the 'chase'. I frame-by-framed it and noticed how briliantly this sequence was executed.

Check out the eye direction (it's a bit messy :D ):

Here is the original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rQiIF9Fun4

Notice the zig zaggy change of direction, to make it feel like a chase, this is too cool:

And then back again:

And again:

Finally, check out the line of action of those cuts. I watched the movie several times before but never noticed it until now

I don't think Guy Ritchie could have picked better then Mirwais' music for this montage. It's my dream to one day animate to music.

Thanks for reading.

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. quick studies workshop ENDS .

The quick studies workshops ended this week. I'm going to miss it.

I got so inspired by the teacher and the students, I can't wait for it to start again in the Fall.

Here are a couple of pages of this Monday's session:

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. yellow tricycle .

"Viens je t’emmène
Sur mon tricycle jaune."

Damien Saez

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