So some EPIC news today.......

last night Adam contacted me to inform me that the Animex Workshop Masterclass with Eric Goldberg had 10 extra tickets added to it due to the massive interest.

By the time i had found this out the tickets had already been available for 16 hours so i wasn't sure how many tickets would be left but i thought its to big of an opportunity not to let pass by.......so i decided to stay awake ALL NIGHT and then went over to the School Of Computing reception at 6am so that i would be the first person there and if any tickets were still available i would be definitely getting one.

so i waited in the freezing cold (-8°C) not knowing what time exactly reception opened but i thought it couldn't be to long of a wait........oh was i wrong, because of the lack of sleep the wait of 2 and a half hours felt like 6 hours :P

but anyway, reception finally opened and i was about to ask for a change to my workshop ticket but before i could even say anything the receptionist told me that a ticket for Animex had been put to the side for me for the Eric Goldberg Masterclass ^_^

I was sooooooo happy and i still am......im not sure how they knew i would be going in to get or even ask for a ticket but whoever told them this i love so damn much.

now if your reading this and thinking "thats good but who's Eric Goldberg?" either your not into learning animation or you're new to animation or your educational institution is really not doing there job.

So let me tell you.......



Eric Goldberg is a GOD when it comes to animation, he was born in New Jersey in 1955 and is probability best known for his work with Disney as lead animator on the Genie in Aladdin and Phil in Hercules.

In fact to date he has been involved in one way or another in 25 animations and is currently working on the 26th Winnie the Pooh as the supervising animator on Rabbit which is currently is post-production.

The first animated feature is worked was Raggedy Ann and Andy as assistant animator for the Richard Williams Studio in 1977 at the age of 22, eventually he moved to Williams' London studio where he proved himself to rise from assistant to director.

In the 1980's he started his own London based company called Pizzaz Pictures to product commercials. He then moved to California to work as an animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios, and worked on the movies that you have from you childhood memories.

If you would like to learn more about Eric Goldberg you can find a lot of information at these links:

IMDB
Cartoon Brew
Wiki
CGHub

Videos:







anyway, hope you found this informative and if you would like to learn more about animation from Eric Goldberg, check out his Book "Character Animation Crash Course" its a wonderful and very informative book that takes you through how to animate in a very understandable way.



Character Animation Crash Course: Eric Goldberg