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Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
Created in 1978 by the incomparable Sally Cruikshank.
This excellent example of projection mapping is from November 2011 and celebrates the 100th anniversary of Seikei Gakuen (Seikei University) in Kichijoji, Japan (near tokyo). The backdrop is one of the campus buildings (though i don’t know which building it is), and is 20 by 70 meters.
By Sandra Püttner, Franziska Miller, Johannes Englert & Phil Röger
This is some top-notch 3D animation and puts a fun twist into the story.
Written and directed by Brad Murphy from the Digital Animation and Visual Effects School (DAVE School)
A live performance projection mapping at St Gervais temple, Geneva, Switzerland. From Mapping Festival 2010.
By Yannick Jacquet and Thomas Vaquié.
Flip the Frog was created by Ub Iwerks in 1930 and the cartoon Fiddlesticks was Flip’s debut. If the style looks and feels familiar it’s because Ub Iwerks was the creator of Mickey Mouse and set the tone for all early Disney animation.
Besides the pedigree, this animation itself was the first sound and color animation when it was released in August 1930.
h/t Miss Cellania
This beautiful little film reminds me a bit of Bill Plympton‘s stuff; hand drawn and shaded, most notably, and incorporating completely bizarre twists to things in the midst of an everyday background.
This short has won multiple student and festival awards for director and animator Lizzi Akana.