Cool Slow Stuff
Something to consider next time you are working on that squash frame at the point of impact.
Found at: The Thinking Animation Blog
Showing posts with label weird and wonderful. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weird and wonderful. Show all posts
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
Animation Tip: Fast Background Art
When the animating time is short it means it is time to get creative with the background art. We can't all be painterly Studio Ghibli or Pixar layout artists.
BigFish.tv animators, by all accounts from reliable sources, follow the philosophy espoused by Ian of, "Work hard, play hard." Not many animators have fuel left in the tank to animate outside of work. These local Brisbane animators let their pressure cooker release with eclectic soundtracks and a flood of crazy consciousness ideas. It's brain twisting gobbledeegook of the highest order. Not only do they animate outside of work time but they have created a whole online festival called Fest.
This example shows how using photographic backgrounds have given this animation an urban jungle feel. So, if it is all about character animation in your soul, then get creative and quick on your backgrounds with ideas like this.
More: A flounder sings, "Why must you eat with your mouth so wide?" Ahoowr you gotta see it.
Federico Vitali ~ Lava Lava & Guano
Federico Vitali is a French animator with a huge bestiary. And I mean Huge. You should check it out. I mean, "Hoo Wee, IT'S HUGE!"
How to make a huge bestiary
Draw 50 x 30 second* episodes of 2D traditional animation where pleasantly, horrible, appealing characters almost live through the most foolish adventures imaginable. ( based on a report in Animation Now! ) Name it Guano.
Also check out the character designs and animation in Vitali's Lava Lava animation series. (Warning: there is some nude buttocks in the Lava Lava series. Oh, and there's cartoon violins as well, so if you're a little kiddy or Zac, or Mitch, or Dan don't watch it).
Federico Vitali also worked with Bill Plympton on a short animated film called "Trashorama", which I can't find on the Internet.
SBIT students: How far can you take your character poses, designs and story ideas? I bet Ian would love to find out. I hear him often wandering around the studio, yawning, muttering, "These students are, by nature, soo conservative." Check out Pushing the Pose (take that Ian!)*2nd years note how many Essential Animation Principles (EAPs) this guy can cover in 30 seconds.
Orgesticulanismus
Hey everyone
This film is very slow for about the first 4 minutes and in french with no subtitles, but if you stick with it the 2d animation in the second half is simply amazing.
Also it's a youtube clip so you probably can't watch it on a T.A.F.E computer.
Cheerio
(Thanks for a great post Mark! Read more about the film @ Cartoon Brew (including a translation and some backround on the main character) Cheers, Frank).
Adobe Cards
I'm not even sure what this thing is.
But I know its animated and I know I like it.
Found at: Motionographer
Dailymotion Link.
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.
The Old Man and the Sea
This amazing 1999, Academy Award winning animation is a must see. It is by Aleksandr Petrov and his son Dimitri over 2 years by making over 29,000 paintings on glass.
"Petrov used his fingertips in addition to various paintbrushes to paint on different glass sheets positioned on multiple levels, each covered with slow-drying oil paints. After photographing each frame painted on the glass sheets, which was four times larger than the usual A4-sized canvas, he had to slightly modify the painting for the next frame..." Read more
Think about it... each painting captured as a frame in a film... each painting lost as the next one is created. As Ian might say, "Wow! And I mean WOW!", or he might say, "Hey! This isn't key frame animation." note: Jane talked about this film in class last year and said we had to watch it. Go Jane!
The Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppets
Check out this great Flash animation from artist Michel Gagne. It lives up to its name thats for sure.
Toyrama
Fancy yourself a bit of a storyteller?
This very cool web site is running an interesting competition. It has an interactive stage where you can assemble characters and scenes to tell an animated story, the best story wins a tour of the Dreamworks Studio and a copy of Maya. Nice!
FAITHLESS - I Won't Stop
A beautiful rich tapestry of mediums, textures and colours feature in this video clip. In addition to the design I love the main characters walk, he lerches and staggers around, his infantsy is obvious despite a total lack of features. Gota love character through movement.
How The Heck Did They Do That!?!
A mind boggling piece from an artist named Koichiro Tsujikawa. I have no idea how this was made. Every way I can come up with that you could achieve something like this (digital or otherwise) just seems like more work than anyone would do. Either there is a trick to it, or this animator is the most patient person in history.
Some Fun with Stop Mo
L'Âme Seule is a touching little piece of claymation with a sudden and tragic ending.
The Organized Mind
Its no secret I'm a huge Jim Henson fan, and over some of the recent posts we have been looking at films that mix different media.
Well Jim was into it way back in 1974. He always did love playing with technology, and I think if he was alive today he would love to see all of these relatively new technologies mashing together. Its also interesting to see something like this on what was the equivalent of Rove today. Hard to imagine something like this on popular TV now, unless there was a fart gag or something thrown in.
Thanks to SBIT Friend MarkO for pointing this one out to me, love it.
Ryan
Check out this amazing film from Chris Landreth and the National Film Board of Canada. Amazing and bizarre! Its about one of Canada's animation legends Ryan Larkin.
Click the pic for the link
Justice D.A.N.C.E
Wow, check out this tricky clip I found on the DRAWN blog.
There is something for the 1st year Anim8 crew to think about here. How are you going to present your animation to the audience, we have a program at Tafe called After FX that can combine animation and live action with ease. Imagine your characters in live action environments or interacting with live action objects or characters. Just further food for thought.
Here is some more.
IMPORTANT WARNING TO ALL STUDENTS
Students, I realise that many of you have an affinity for geeky pursuits like comics, sci-fi/fantasy and, well, animation, and as such you might be tempted to go to events like Supanova (held last weekend at the RNA). I urge you to stay away though, as I'd hate to see any of you get hurt, and I hear there are some real whackoes at these gatherings (some with bizarre weapons fetishes and homicidal tendencies). I give you exhibit A...
For the love of God kids, next year, just stay home... I care too much about you all...
French Stop Mo
Check out this cool French stop motion film. I particularly like the use of colour and shadow. The who thing has this constant sort of metallic, copper like colour range, it looks great.
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