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The Mighty Hercules: Medusa's Sceptre

I find it useful to consider how two mediums with overlapping interests, photography and animation, for example, approach the same topic - in this case, hand posing.

There's a classic animation hand pose used for graceful women that relaxes the hand and groups the middle two fingers together to clarify and simplify the silhouette.

It seems somewhat similar to how a ballerina holds her hands, with the exception that her fingers are not grouped.

Model photographer Mary DuPrie discuses these issues in some detail in her DVDs.

Hand Poses 07 by ~stockyourselfout on deviantART

surfBoards, originally uploaded by jfrancis.

I've been going through old hard drives and uploading to this Flickr set anything that seems worthwhile.



"You never know what you gonna get..."

Here's an animation I designed for a logo I was provided by the client. This ran at IMAX resolution at the head of the concert film All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live! (2001)

I think whoever directed the Cadbury's Eyebrows TV spot featuring the song Don't Stop the Rock knows something about animation. I like the way the girl anticipates her first big head turn toward the boy with a little wind-up turn away from him.

(It's a detail all the spoof versions lack.)