TED Talk Thursday – Danielle Feinberg: The magic ingredient that brings Pixar movies to life

According to TED.com: Danielle Feinberg, Pixar’s director of photography, creates stories with soul and wonder using math, science and code. Go behind the scenes of Finding Nemo, Toy Story, Brave, WALL-E and more, and discover how Pixar interweaves art and science to create fantastic worlds where the things you imagine can become real.”

“Danielle Feinberg began her career at Pixar Animation Studios in 1997 on the feature film A Bug’s Life. She quickly discovered her love for lighting and went on to light on many of Pixar’s feature films including Toy Story 2Monsters, Inc., the Academy Award®-winning Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Ratatouille. Feinberg was the director of photography for lighting on Pixar’s Academy Award®-winning films WALL-E and Brave and is now working on Pixar’s upcoming film, Coco.”

Enjoy!

For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”

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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!

Mandala Monday – Doodling Mandalas – Two Simple Tutorials

Doodling mandalas is probably the simplest (and maybe most fun) way to create them. There is no right or wrong way to do it,  just doodle in circular patterns. Today I found 2 videos that demonstrate how simple it can be.

First is Doodle – Circular Pattern Design [Mandala] by Pic Candle. Here is what Pic Candle has to say about her video: “Here’s something different I tried this week. I started with random circles as guidelines and then filled them up with different designs.”

“Well, I don’t know what this kind of drawing is called, so I’m just naming it as circular pattern design (since I drew circular repeated patterns in this) haha 😛
[UPDATE] So it’s mandala type drawing.”

Interesting that she didn’t know what a mandala was until after she published the video. It just shows how natural and easy it is to create one.

Doodle – Circular Pattern Design [Mandala] 

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Next is How To Draw Complex Mandala Art Design For Beginners, Easy Tutorial Doodle Drawing Step By Step by Something4allofus. [The title is much more complex than actually doodling mandalas. 😉 ]

How To Draw Complex Mandala Art Design For Beginners,
Easy Tutorial Doodle Drawing Step By Step

So get out some paper and a pen or pencil and enjoy doodling mandalas!

doodling mandalas

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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!

Mandala Monday – Drawing a Mandala with Barb Owen

Barb Owen of HowToGetCreative.com shows us in this video how to draw a mandala using simple household items like plates, bowls, and cups. If you prefer to use a compass, she has a blog post that explains how to do that as well at: How To: Draw a Mandala With a Compass.

 Drawing a Mandala With Bowls Plates Cups by Barb Owen

You can find more about Barb Owen at:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BarbOwenDesigns

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HowToGetCreative

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BarbOwenDesigns

Ustream Every Friday at 2pm Eastern: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/creating-faces

Home Page; http://howtogetcreative.com/

 

BARB OWEN

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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!