An 8-bit character escapes the 2D world. (looks more like 16-bit, but who’s counting?)
Animated by Steve Jones
The Early Sheets – The Lost Levels
May 19, 2012
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Beyond the Mind’s Eye – Voyage Home
March 8, 2012The last installment in the Beyond the Mind’s Eye series.
Next series up would be the Odyssey Into the Mind’s Eye, and we will get to it eventually, but not just yet. There’s a lot of excellent animation out there now and I’m getting a bit of a backlog of great stuff in the draft queue that needs to be posted.
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Computer Animation Firsts
March 4, 2012The following are two incredibly important computer animations; the first 3D rendered animation from 1972, and the first fractal generated animation from ca 1979.
In 1972 Ed Catmull (founder of Pixar) and his colleagues created the world’s first 3D rendered movie, an animated version of Ed’s left hand. This is the film that they produced. It includes some “making of” footage (around 1:30) and some other early experiments. Read more at nerdplusart.com/?p=1106.
The first fractal animation. Vol Libre
I made this film in 1979-80 to accompany a SIGGRAPH paper on how to synthesize fractal geometry with a computer. It is the world’s first fractal movie. It utilizes 8-10 different fractal generating algorithms. I used an antialiased version of this software to create the fractal planet in the Genesis Sequence of Star Trek 2, the Wrath of Khan. These frames were computed on a VAX-11/780 at about 20-40 minutes each
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Beyond the Mind’s Eye – Theatre of Magic
March 2, 2012
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Beyond the Mind’s Eye – The Pyramid
February 26, 2012
Like this:
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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
February 16, 2012Such is the power of books.
Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, “Morris Lessmore” is a story of people who devote their lives to books and books who return the favor. … [A]ward winning author/ illustrator William Joyce and Co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a new narrative experience that harkens back to silent films and M-G-M Technicolor musicals.
Rich and warm animation telling a layered and engaging tale.
Nominated for the 2012 Oscar in the Best Animated Short category and the winner of numerous (13 so far) awards. From Moonbot Studios.
[UPDATE: It won!]
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Beyond the Mind’s Eye – Nothing but Love
February 14, 2012
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Beyond the Mind’s Eye – Windows
February 9, 2012No, nothing to do with the operating system we love to hate. This video is more a mellow architectural/design tour. You can tell it’s age as all the displays use CRTs.
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motion feel – Shinji Inamoto
February 7, 2012Shinji Inamoto takes a frenetically idiosyncratic tune by Frenchman Thiaz Itch and animates it utterly. Hitting the beats and following the changes in an avant-garde style that twists and surprises as much as the music does.
Modeling by Hironari Okada
Music:”La Combe du Tréboulou” by Thiaz Itch (i think we’ll be back to hear more from mr itch soon…)
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Beyond the Mind’s Eye – Too Far
February 2, 2012
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