Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
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I’ve shifted to an every other day posting schedule and what happens? On an ‘off day’ I feel the need to move to some ancient beats, namely Kraftwerk.
The Forest from David Scharf at huesforalice.com.
Antonia is a 12 year old girl. She often has daydreams, in which she wanders of in to a magical far away forest, were she hides from the problems of the real world. One day, however, her father takes drastic measures and she has to face a decision.
Is your inner peace an utopian state until you have finally escaped the grip of the society and its rules? Or is affirmation a faster way to your personal luck? And what are you supposed to do, if you have to answer this question at the age of 12?
The Legend of the Scarecrow from Carlos Lascano is a multiple-award winning animation telling the story of a scarecrow who wants to make friends with the birds and why crows are black.
You can find more at Mr Lascano’s website.
The British short Extn.21 has won multiple awards, deservedly so I would say. Directed by Lizzie Oxby, it is…
…a short film about one man’s desire to be heard. The film uses an innovative blend of atmospheric stop-frame animation, live action performance (a live action head on a stop-frame puppet) and digital effects to create a dark world of uncertain reality.
The Murph by Rendezvous
Animated by Scott Benson
I was reading a big book on evolution at the time, and wanted to do something involving the progression of life and how it marches on despite it’s fragility. These concepts are in the final video, but it started taking on a life of its own.
You can read more here, and be sure to stop into Mr Benson’s new site at www.bombsfall.com, he’s a talented guy.
From the folks at Buck comes this mind-twisting animation:
It is not very often that we have the opportunity to create a graphic equivalent of a drug fueled rant bringing all of our collective skills to bear. And it is almost unfathomable that we could actually do something like this and benefit a good cause.
The Buck team dug deep, channeling our inner gonzo, to direct and produce this homage promoting Good Books, the online bookseller that passes all its profits through to Oxfam.
This is the second Gotye video I’ve posted and I have a feeling it won’t be the last. They get top-notch animators that create imaginative videos that pair well with their songs. In a variation on the “small world syndrome” this is also the second video I’ve posted from the animators at Oh Yeah Wow. (Darcy Prendergast directing in this video) No doubt we’ll hear from OYW again too.
When sunlight breaks out to play. An imaginative (and brilliant) variation on light animation from Sarah Wickens.
The 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.
The 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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