Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
Whatever your thinking on Michael Jackson, he was a major talent. When this video debuted in 1990 I was blown away. Detailed and complex backgrounds, mixed animation styles, catchy tune. Directed by Jim Blashfield it won the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video in 1990.
A quick and cute little animation for your New Years morning.
Robo by Chris Delaporte
In 2001 Animusic, founded by Wayne Lytle, released it’s first compilation DVD. This was a refinement of the work we saw in More Bells and Whistles. What Mr Lytle had done was flip animation on it’s head by creating computer models then using music input (MIDI) to control them. Basically, he made the instruments and the music played them.
More Bells and Whistles from the early computer animation video Imaginaria. Created in 1990, the animation was one of Wayne Lytle‘s first CG music videos. Look familiar?
From 1968. Happy Holidays of all sorts!
An innovatingly simple stop-motion animation by Tomas Mankovsky.
Part two, Panspermia, is based on a 5th century BC Greek idea that life exists throughout the universe and is spread by meteors, comets, asteroids, and the like. (not to be confused with exogenesis which says life on earth was transferred from somewhere else and could care less whether there’s life elsewhere. geocentric snobbery.)
Cirkus is stop-motion animation from Denmark and has, as one might expect, danish dialogue. Fortunately it’s sub-titled in english for those of us unfamiliar. The sets are great, the animation smooth, and the story is sweetly engaging.
Naive clown with a fabulous act and a heart of gold wants to join the circus. But this is no ordinary circus via
Directed by Thomas Pors
Beyond the Mind’s Eye is the 1992 follow up to The Mind’s Eye and, true to Moore’s Law, the animation has improved in step with the increase in computing power. The music is done by Jan Hammer (yes, he did miami vice too, but don’t hold it against him) and tracks better than parts of the first series.
So, let’s start at the beginning with Virtual Reality…
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The Ruffled Crow 