CGW: Scared Silly

Computer Graphics World has a cool article about Tofu the Vegan Zombie by Karen Moltenbrey. She does an amazing job of painting the picture of how Tofu came to be as not only a concept, but the toy and animated short.

Here is an excerpt:

Not long ago, CG animated short films were as rare as a vintage comic book. Today, though, they are a favorite medium for students, novices, and professional animators. At most animation schools, students complete a short for their final project and grade. At the other end of the spectrum, studios, such as Pixar, DreamWorks, and Blue Sky, often test a technique or technology
in the production environment of an animated short before jumping headfirst into a feature-length film.

So, if you want to create a CG animated short today using intellectual property, how do you distinguish it from all the others out there on the Internet, at various fi lm festivals, and elsewhere? That was the question haunting animator/producer/artist William “Proton” Vaughan not long ago.

Read the entire article in issue: Volume 34 Issue 8 (Oct/Nov 2011), or online here: CGW Tofu Article