We are meeting in the DA lab today at 2:00 pm to RENDER OUR ANIMATION! We need all the help we can get! So, if you have a laptop or even if you don’t but you are free, come to the DA lab! Even if you can’t make […]

CRISIS AVERTED! All files have been restored to dropbox! So, no matter what time you worked on your animations yesterday they are in the layout folder in the gotcha folder! HOORAY! NO ONE LOST ANYTHING! *sigh of relief*

PLAYBLASTS ARE DUE TODAY!!! At least by 6 pm!

H-E-L-L-O!

Please remember to add your name to your playblasts when you upload them to dropbox. This way the animation supervisor & director know who to contact for a rendered shot. A few animations have […]

Everyone, It is IMPORTANT that you download dropbox to your harddrive and set your maya project to the Gotcha Dropbox!
WHY? Because if we change any of the models in your scene then your project won’t be […]

If you are animating a scene with the projector, don’t worry about animating the wheels, Christina did an amazing job with the projector and the wheels animate automatically when you render/playblast your scene! […]

Animation due date has changed!! Get your animations in Thursday, April 25, 2013 by 11:00 am !!!

JUST UPLOAD A PLAYBLAST to the Animations folder in the Gotcha dropbox account, make sure YOURNAME is on your […]

Good evening everyone!
Layout has done their magic and your scenes are ready to be animated! (YAY!)

In addition, they came up with the snazzy idea of an FAQ! So, we’ve compiled a list of questions that you […]

Important information from the layout department regarding animating your specific scene:

Everyone needs to animate to the shot camera and not perspective. Maya defaults to perspective so you need to go under […]

Hey Everyone, I sent an email but for those of you who are not on my mailing list then here goes the email:
1.) I fixed the TO-DO list and the Shotlist to represent scenes and shots correctly, sorry for the […]

In response to the above post, It has been decided that the movement of the characters will follow normal earth gravity. We will employ the normal moon gravity parameters for certain punchlines, but as a whole we […]

For all the animators. I have here a link to a couple of reference footage of astronauts on lunar missions walking and hopping on the moon. I hope they can be helpful to everyone on this […]

I found this documentary both fascinating and entertaining. I really liked how it was a documentary that went over both 2D animation and the transition into 3D animation and how much 2D animation has influenced […]