Everything but!

So Lately it seems I can concentrate on learning everything but what I have to, for example I have been studying Neanderthals, homosapiens and the famous Lucy. None of which have anything to do with animation or 3d in anyway.
I need to get my focus back on track, so this evening I spent most of the time looking for topics on the new film Hotel Transylvania, and I am loving what I've read so far, in fact tomorrow I have insisted with my other half we go see it and on top of that I have ordered the art and making of book.
I found this really good little tidbit into the behind scenes animation of it on dengeek.com http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/hotel-transylvania/22999/hotel-transylvania-a-look-at-the-animation-style
Which even includes a little clip of the pre materialed models being animated. It describes how they replaced the in between blur that usually happens in animation with a  step by step key frame and nickenamed it Genndy blur. Ontop of the modellers and riggers having to do this and create a new engine software, they would give their extreme pose of say Dracula, in which Grenndy Tartakovsky would draw over the still of the extreme pose on the Cintiq ensuring that the 2d extreme style inspired by the Warner Bros. and Tex Avery style (as quoted), would be transferred into 3d! The film director was so determined to have this, he would draw over it!! Love it, it's everything Pixar is not, and is exactly what I am looking for, he steers clear of the realistic CGI stuff that everyone is trying to do and creates something a cartoon should be! Love it
Anyway I'm really looking forward to the book arriving which should be over the next week or so, I've also ordered "Why is that so funny? A Practival exploration of physical comedy" which is also quite fitting as I've been watching the Marx Brother films, wasn't sure what to make of them first but "Duck Soup" actually made me giggle out loud!

Besides all this book ordering and laughing to myself I also had a major panic when I realised we had another project this term, internal client project! Da..da..duuuhh..... So in my hectic busy family week last week I had to pull together a presentation for an idea I didn't have, well lucky for me I work well under pressure, in fact I'm rubbish if there's no pressure, I procrastinate, a lot! Anyway back to the main point at hand, this week I'll be creating an animatic/storyboard of my idea which I came up with the night before! It's actually pretty good. In fact tomorrow I'll write up a post entirely dedicated to it as I'm going to try and read my tex avery book now.

Here's the YouTube link to fatboy slim video Rig here, right now. Inspiration to my internal client project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R795KiMD4zs&feature=youtube_gdata_player