The Ruffled Crow

Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things

Cinema Dehors

Leave a comment Posted by on June 23, 2016

A fun little combination of time lapse video and animation.

Living in the modern world we are too busy with our daily routines and addicted to technologies that sometimes we forget that the real beauty of this world is right in front of our eyes.

Animation by Tatiana Poliektova, Music: Where’s My Banjo by Rimsky

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Origami – ESMA

Leave a comment Posted by on June 21, 2016

A grandfather helps a young man learn the value of patience and tradition.

Animation by Joanne Smithies, Eric De Melo Bueno, Michael Moreno, and Hugo Bailly from ESMA (Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques/School of Art) in Montpellier, France.

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Rain – Senbei

Leave a comment Posted by on June 18, 2016

It’s raining in Seattle right now (I know, what’s new?) and I like it this way. Alone in the place with only the cat, the rain takes on a comfortable solitary tone to my ear. Perfect time for an unscheduled weekend music video.

This is an excellent mix of animation against real life re-tinted backgrounds done by Victor Jardel.

Music by Senbei out of Paris, France.

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Wonderland – Caravan Palace

Leave a comment Posted by on June 17, 2016

What better way to start the weekend than with a brand new (only 3 days old!) animated video from Caravan Palace! From their album <|°_°|>.

Main Animation : Marie Vieillevie, Hugo Bravo, Jocelyn Charles, Kajika Aki
Additional Animation : Leila Courtillon, Alessandro Vergonnier, Mailis Colombie, Kevin Phung

Directed by Kevin Phung

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The Looking Planet

Leave a comment Posted by on June 16, 2016

A longer-than-usual animation today, but well worth the extra time! This multi-award winner shows how far we’ve come in computer animation since The Mind’s Eye series of 1990. It’s a fun story too!

Animated by Eric Law Anderson, Sara Smilnak, Shelbi Caudill, and John Sasser

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2001: A Picasso Odyssey

Leave a comment Posted by on June 14, 2016

‘2001’ rendered in the style of Picasso using Deep Neural Networks based style transfer. – Bhautik Joshi.

A fun little film, especially for those that have seen the film. I think Mr Joshi probably used software based on the academic paper A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style by Leon A. Gatys, Alexander S. Ecker, and Matthias Bethge.

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Mocking Bird – Mattias Gordon

Leave a comment Posted by on June 11, 2016

Another unscheduled weekend music video featuring another brain-bending animation by Mattias Gordon.

Music by Hazmat Modine.

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Quack Fat – Opiuo

Leave a comment Posted by on June 10, 2016

Let’s start the weekend right.

Opiuo has been dominating my glitch-hop playlist lately. He has a good mix of swing, jazz and funk going on. So it was most excellent to find that the second glitch-hop animation I found was an official music video of his! From the album Meraki.

Directed and animated by Dropbear, it took 240 audio cassettes, 5,600 feet of video tape, 108 floppy discs and 1 retro walkman to make.

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The Great Harlot and the Beast – The Animation Workshop

Leave a comment Posted by on June 9, 2016

A dark satire on mans’ baser instincts in amusements, this animation is done with 3d-animated marionettes.

How will the naive freshly carved prince and his co-actors withstand their audience’s insatiable appetite for entertainment?

I’ve become a big fan of the students at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark. They consistently put out some top-notch animation.

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Once Upon a Blue Moon – Steve Boot

Leave a comment Posted by on June 7, 2016

There is something kind of safe and loveable about claymation. When you think about it, even the most grotesque clay monsters can be remolded into Gumby (or Pokey) so what’s to worry about? It also helps that much of the claymation I come across starts out as cute anyway. Like this one by Steve Boot.

A lonely blue alien thinks he has found a new friend to play with when a strange new explorer robot lands on his planet.

Winner of the best independent film at the 2015 “Festival Stop Motion Montreal.”

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