Speaking at ISART

I will be speaking about animation at ISART Digital in Paris on Wednesday, October 10. Special thanks to Olivier Colas for coordinating the event. I am excited to meet with the faculty and students and to hopefully speak a little bit of French!

I cut together some shots I storyboarded, prevised, and animated for Blizzard Animation's cinematic for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King back in 2008. Arthas raises the dead Sindragosa who then powers up the entire undead army with a roar.
Animating is breathing life into the characters (and sometimes camera), i.e. making them move or not move. The final product is a massive team effort -- shout out to concept, C-dev, story, pipeline, tech, modeling, rig-sim, surfacing, lighting, compositing, FX, editing, directing, and any others I forgot to mention!
Director: Jeff Chamberlain
Animation Supervisor: James McCoy
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Instagram

I am finding myself more and more attracted to following people and posting on instagram lately. I think it is an easier way to blog. Follow me at https://www.instagram.com/illusionofalife/

UW Stout Skype Call

I will be reviewing portfolios over Skype on Monday, February 19 with students from UW Stout. Excited to see what those creative kids are up to!