Brothers Mcleod - Sticks - 'High Noon'
The Brothers Mcleod are innovative animators from the UK.
This is a YouTube clip, so if you can't view it @ school there's more about The Brothers Mcleod here and here.
What did you think of the film?
Showing posts with label stop motion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stop motion. Show all posts
Get Out And Play
A very cool stop mo (often called Pixelation when done with people in it) promotion for Nokia.
There is also a youtube link for those on slower connections.
PES
This is truly one of the most original animation sites I've ever seen. PES make animations out of weird and wonderful things, its the kind of unique and original take on animation that can only seem to survive on the Internet these days. I could imagine watching a whole film or TV show made this way, but sadly the wheels of commerce just wouldn't let it happen. At least they seem to have gotten some work on commercials.
Make sure you also check out the making of clips while visiting the site. WARNING - A few of the films contain adult themes (things like household furniture engaging in rude activities), but the one I have linked to directly is safe.
Found at: FEED
The Animals Save The Planet
New animation from Aardman. Yay!
12 different shorts for Animal Planet.
Found at: No Fat Clips
Tais-toi Mon Coeur and Lost Cargo
Is it just me? Or is it getting harder and harder to see the difference between stop mo and 3D these days.
Tais-toi Mon Coeur found at: Motionographer
Lost Cargo found by: Mark Osberg
2nd Year student Zac has a rant about Tais-toi Mon Coeur
LOA in Stop Mo
When your character is just a small head at the end of a long neck then you don't have much to work with beyond Line of Action. This piece from Robot Chicken is tailor made for demonstrating the link between LOA and emotion because it specifically sets out to demonstrate 5 distinct emotions with a very simple character design. It shows how your understanding of LOA will be useful to you no matter what medium you end up working in.
Will Vinton
The second year animation students at Southbank are currently having a go at some stop motion animation in their Wednesday classes. Here is an interview with one of the pioneers of claymation Will Vinton.
Devices
This week was like Christmas for the second year students at Southbank as they unwrapped a whole bunch of supplies ordered in especially for their stop motion project with Jane.
Right on que I’ve come across a nice unique example of stop motion animation. This clip for the band, The Terrordactyls just goes to show that you can use just about anything to come up with some interesting stop mo.
Found at: No Fat Clips
Stop Motion: Barry Purves 'Screen Play'
Stop motion animator Barry Purves amazing , 11 minute film is called Screen Play (1992). How much time would it have taken to craft such an intricate film? It's hard to find on the WWW but a version can be seen here.
Grade 2's are starting a short 'stop mo' project. That means NOT 11 minutes. How do we do it? The ARC Blog has some good posts on the subject worth reviewing. Particularly the links from the Fool Hardy Films post that show the process of animating.
Another resource page can be found at Animateclay.com
Lauenstein Brothers - Balance
In 1989 a student film won an Academy Award. The Lauenstein brothers are German animators and you might wonder what they have been doing since?
A whole web site of amazing animation : 'The Lauenstein brothers create comic characters, and manufacture the figures in a variety of materials including clay. The special charm of "hand-made" films can offer an interesting alternative to the "clean" atmosphere of computer animations.'
In recent posts there has been discussion about students making short narrative films, experimental animation, how 2D style animation is dominating this year's Academy Award nominations, and the suggested re-introduction of a short stop motion component to the South Bank animation course. So much to comment on!
With such a diverse range of input we need some Balance
Thanks go to Kristi (an ARC friend) whose comment in a previous post put me on to this course of wide-eyed student discovery.
Beringer
So far this year I've been finding lots of stop motion animation . . . . . . Which is nice.
This ad for Beringer wine is beautiful.
Found at: The Nozap Blog
Fool Hardy Films
When it comes to finding links for posting, for a Blogger nothing beats following a series of links and discovering something cool. Its far more rewarding than just recycling the better quality links that appear on the blogs I regularly visit to find clips.
Today while exploring I discovered the web site of stop motion film maker Trevor Hardy. He has a whole page of shorts up on youtube. My favourite was A Problem Shared, but there were several other good ones, and a series of shorts documenting the process he go's through to make his films.
Coraline
Henry Selick is working on what is reported as his first stop motion film since Nightmare Before Christmas. I thought or assumed he had something to do with James and the Giant Peach, still I can forgive people for forgetting it. This new one looks great, there is a real grainy quality to the darkness that nothing 3D has managed to capture yet.
Over the holidays I nerded it up by watch all of the Matrix movies and some of the "making of" extras. In the doco for the second film they were all rabbiting on about how the CG bullet time gave them so much more freedom than the stuff in the first movie that was made using an elaborate array of still cameras. I looked at some of the bullet time scenes from each film and the older one just looked better. I love computer 3D animation, it has empowered me as a solo animator like nothing before, but I sure am glad some are sticking to their old school guns.
Found at: Cooked Art
Deadline
Student Frank pointed out this cool short film from Aardman. If I read the subtle nuances between the lines in the email, I think the film may remind him of a recent experience he's had trying to get a film finished with some fellow students. 
But that could just be me reading to much into it.
Creature Discomforts
Gota love seeing some new stuff from Aardman. Check out these ads to raise awareness of the day to day problems disabled people.
Process Enchanted and The Great Escape
Jane has been paddling at the edge of the Youtube pond in the last few weeks. I think she is a little concerned about what might happen if she falls in. Here are some more great clips she has found.
Its interesting how people can find completely different things to each other when they go exploring on a site like Youtube. Its like everyone's Youtube experience is unique to themselves. ........ weird.
Cuisine
I don't know what to say, this it truly weird, but I love it. From a studio/group called Paranoid Us.
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