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Walt Disney - Donald Au Pays Des Mathématiques

Walt Disney - Donald Au Pays Des Mathématiques

Learning In The Flesh: Why Disney Sends Its Animators To Life Drawing Classes Since 1932, Disney has been the only entertainment studio to continue an unbroken tradition of offering free life drawing classes for its artists within its studios. The idea is that understanding and capturing the anatomy and sense of motion from a live model improves animated drawings and gestures. In the ensuing decades—while other animation and visual effects studios in the U.S. and Europe intermittently followed suit, pending budgets—Disney’s classes have not only continued unabated, but expanded beyond features to its TV animation, theme park, consumer products, and straight-to-DVD divisions. Continuing that tradition today are master teachers Karl Gnass, Mark MacDonnell, and Bob Kato. Collectively, they teach daily life drawing of both nude and costumed models to help animators better understand the fundamentals of the human form, how clothing and gesture inform character and intent, and how to infuse spirit and intent into their figures. How They Teach How the tradition began

Make Your Own Kaleidoscope! Share your results on Flickr in the group Mini Kaleids, KrazyDad Style. Instructions: Find an image you like on the Internet, and paste in the image URL here, then press the load button. Note: it is not enough to use the URL of the page the image is on, you must provide the URL of the image itself (typically ending with .jpg, .gif or .png). You can upload your own photos to an image-hosting site, such as imgur.com. Once your image is loaded, you can make the kaleidoscope move by clicking and dragging on the image with the mouse. When you mouse over the image, a faded version of it will appear. The 5-way, 7-way, and 11-way buttons on the upper left will change the mirror aperture from wide to narrow. The JPEG button will create a JPEG version of the image that you can download. NEW: The FEED button will take your current kaleidoscope image, and feed it back in as a new image, creating a feedback effect. The flower and cereal icons will load in some preset images I've prepared.

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