Dave is a Los Angeles based animator. He enjoys animating, drawing, guitar, and nothing else. View his reel here.Tumblr (3.0; @davelogan)http://www.animatordavelogan.com/<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/73jRo4fwU3I?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Awesome 6 minute tutorial on making blinks with appeal from <a href="http://animschool.com">AnimSchool</a>.</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/17413429255http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/17413429255Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:09:39 -0800cganimationanimschoolblinkstutorial<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/34608191" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Really interesting documentary about the effects of the democratization of media production via cheap, high quality software and hardware.</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/17268393562http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/17268393562Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:00:31 -0800documentarymedia productionmedia studies<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fO1MyGUDYlI?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>REAL ONION SKINNING IN MAYA! None of that 3d motion path noise, true onion skinning! This looks almost exactly what I’ve wanted in Maya since I started using it. Hoping to get on the beta test, but either way this plugin looks well worth the $29 pricetag.</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/16359678320http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/16359678320Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:29:00 -0800mayamaya pluginonion skinningpythonanzovin<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/27428207" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>NEW YEAR NEW REEL!! Tweaked a few shots, added a couple more form the very awesome creature animation courses I’m taking from <a href="http://animationmentor.com">Animation Mentor</a>.</p> <p>Hope ya dig!</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/15246353003http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/15246353003Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:43:02 -0800reel3d reelanimation mentoranimation reelcreature animationmayamountain lion<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx2zbvVx4W1qcs7zwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I had a very animated Xmas this year. DIG IT!</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/15090267883http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/15090267883Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:28:43 -0800animationxmas<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx16lq8ozF1qcs7zwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>With Good Vibes’ season finale last might it seemed appropriate to post this. At the end of my animation team’s contract back in June I bought a most excellent beer, <a href="http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22/34">La Fin du Monde</a> (“the end of the world”, geddit?) for each one of my teammates as a farewell gift.</p> <p>With a little ingenuity and a lot of tape I pasted Mondo’s head over the logo and changed the name to “La fin du Mondo” (the end of Mondo, geddit?).</p> <p>Yes, I am a geek.</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/15037541429http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/15037541429Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:10:00 -0800good vibesbeergeekery<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwvtodQWfw1qbwxizo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://overdosedeamor.tumblr.com/post/14880263246/good-vibes">overdosedeamor</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>— Good Vibes</p> </blockquote> <p>Woah, I was just looking through tumblr’s “Good Vibes” tags and found this Portuguese translation of a shot I animated. Not much to say to that other than neat!</p> <p>Neat!</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/14988551625http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/14988551625Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:53:00 -0800good vibes<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwzhrhFhSb1qcs7zwo6_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwzhrhFhSb1qcs7zwo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwzhrhFhSb1qcs7zwo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwzhrhFhSb1qcs7zwo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Good Vibes’ season finale is <strong>TONIGHT at 10:30/9:30c</strong> with two back to back episodes, and to celebrate the Facebook page is putting out some behind-the-scenes material. Above are some drawing tips straight from the style guide</p> <p>I always love seeing this kind of stuff so I hope other animation geeks will find it interesting!</p> <p>There’s some other stuff from the guide on the Facebook page as well. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MTVgoodvibes">Check it out</a>!</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/14987927731http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/14987927731Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:16:00 -0800animationmtvgood vibesanimation style guidestyle guidehow to draw<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw5x85f65j1qcs7zwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Nice.</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/14182034828http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/14182034828Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:02:29 -0800good vibes<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvfzzw3OAl1qcs7zwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>One of my sketches I did for my Animation Mentor assignment this week. nothing fancy, but I think it’s got a good sense of life in it.</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/13514359512http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/13514359512Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:04:44 -0800sketchIllustrationdlanimation mentor<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv8mfppZgQ1qicgklo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://frankmacchia.tumblr.com/post/13316675922/another-gif-i-made-as-a-tribute-to-one-of-my">frankmacchia</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Another gif I made as a tribute to one of my favourite moments from Seinfeld.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">“I thought you were gonna watch a video?!”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">“Well yeah….an instructional video on how to make your own sausages.”</p> <p class="MsoListParagraph">Happy Thanks-gif-ing</p> </blockquote>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/13321515810http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/13321515810Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:12:43 -0800<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lugm7fKX9R1qicgklo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://frankmacchia.tumblr.com/post/12606542866/watch-the-new-good-vibes-tonight-at-1030-on-mtv-a">frankmacchia</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Watch the new Good Vibes tonight at 1030 on MTV. A fantastic episode guest starring Dana Carvey as the wilderness expert, Claw Jones. I may be biased, but this is one of my favourite episodes of the season…It also happens to be the first episode that I’m credited as Animation Director.</p> <p>It definitely has some of the best Miss Teets moments.</p> </blockquote> <p>Frank was my lead so this is the first episode that consists of ~1/6th of my work. Plus it’s pretty damn funny. Excited. Watch.</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/12607467934http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/12607467934Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:59:05 -0800<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/27428207" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Just posted an updated version of my reel for your perusal.</p> <p>Looking forward to getting my current shot for the Creatures Masterclass I’m taking from Animation Mentor done and up on this bad boy! It’s a doozy.</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/12290038617http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/12290038617Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:26:29 -0700reelanimation3dcganimation mentor<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lspyp3tJos1qicgklo3_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lspyp3tJos1qicgklo1_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lspyp3tJos1qicgklo2_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Awesome Batman doodles by <a href="http://frankmacchia.tumblr.com/post/11157755743/the-bottom-two-were-a-collaborative-effort-between">Frank Macchia</a>, my lead on Good Vibes.</p> <p><a href="http://frankmacchia.tumblr.com/post/11157755743/the-bottom-two-were-a-collaborative-effort-between">frankmacchia</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The bottom two were a collaborative effort between the talented <a href="http://lespapiersperdus.blogspot.com/">Cheyenne Curtis</a> and I.</p> </blockquote>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/12270451148http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/12270451148Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:55:09 -0700good vibesbatmanawesome<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu1oxewmre1qcs7zwo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Finally, to close out this Good Vibes trifecta, here are a couple of designs of myself in the GV style. The director on the final episode let a bunch of us animators design ourselves to be put in as BG characters. So keep an eyeout for a bunch of weird animator types crashing Mondo’s prom in about 11 weeks!</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/12247068771http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/12247068771Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:05:00 -0700animationdoodlesgood vibesmtvillustration<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu1osmfFOe1qcs7zwo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>And this is kinda narcissistic, but here’s the proof! Gotta say it was fun to see my name scroll by at lightning speed. This isn’t the first TV series I’ve worked on, but it is the first that either aired or lasted long enough for the episodes I worked on to air. Woo!</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/12246982647http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/12246982647Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:02:46 -0700animationgood vibesmtv<embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:videolist:mtv.com:1672309/cp~instance%3Dfullepisode%26autoPlay%3Dfalse%26id%3D1672309%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideolist%3Amtv.com%3A1672309" width="400" height="225" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" base="."></embed><br/><br/><p>I should’ve posted this about a week ago, but oh well! The show I worked on for about half a year, Good Vibes, is now airing on MTV! Posted above is the first episode (which I helped out a bit on), and the 2nd (which I didn;t help on at all but is an awesome episode) airs tomorrow night at 10:30/9:30C. Checkitout! </p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/12246823641http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/12246823641Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:57:32 -0700animationgood vibesmtv<p>You can view it here for the moment: <a href="http://www.nitrohandsome.com/portfolio/animation/the-bloodmobile/">http://www.nitrohandsome.com/portfolio/animation/the-bloodmobile/</a></p> <p>A while ago I switched over to tumblr for this domain, and tumblr doesn’t allow any self hosting of content, which is why the link you used to view the Bloodmobile with stopped working. I’m working on a new site that will take me off tumblr and allow for my own hosting again, hopefully with the same URL structure.</p> <p>Anyway, long story short, for now you can find it at the URL above, sometime in the near future you’ll be able to find it easily on this webspace. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/9114527709http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/9114527709Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:38:24 -0700<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq5eqmUW2W1qcs7zwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I have to admit, Vancouver is pretty amazing.</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/9100213134http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/9100213134Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:01:33 -0700vancouver<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/27428207" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>New CG reel! Checkitout! Slightly less new Flash reel viewable <a href="http://db.tt/Ptz0eC6">here</a>.</p> <p>Just wrapped up my first SIGGRAPH up here in Vancouver. Fun and sleep-deprived times were had by all. More thoughts coming after I wake from my hibernation.</p>http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/8802008132http://www.animatordavelogan.com/post/8802008132Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:10:00 -0700reelanimationcg3ddlvancouversiggraph