Eighteen-year-old French science student Hugo ‘Graphonaute’ Germain uses all manner of 3D tools to create his rather fine looping animations.
Kid shows promise.
More here.
Category Archives: Animation
Written by novelist and screenwriter Dave Eggers for the US radio show This American Life, directed by Richard Hickey and brought to life by a team of 40 animators at Not To Scale, Francis is the story of a teenager on a family camping trip who rows out to the middle of a lake by night to write in her journal.
Bad idea.
Great storytelling. Sumptuous animation.
A rather deliciously rendered 3D experimental short by Simon Russell:
…about synesthetic drones, neon dubstep and the surveillance state.
The Common Room Project – a collaboration between 13 animators – all contributing sequential takes on the spoken word poem Common Room by Talia Randall.
Previously: Opposite Of A Thank You by Erin Fornoff, Numb by Alvy Carragher and Cabra by Lewis Kenny.
Based on two earlier very watchable experimental animations (Yellow Sticky Notes and Ode To A Post-It Note) director Jeff Chiba Stearns and a 14 other Canadian animators reflect on a single day in their lives using the medium of black pen on yellow adhesive rectangle.
Particpants: Paul Driessen, Cordell Barker, Lillian Chan, Malcolm Sutherland, Alison Snowden, David Fine, Chris Hinton, Jeff Chiba Stearns, Marv Newland, Louise Johnson, Joel Mackenzie, Jody Kramer, Jonathan Ng, Howie Shia, Janet Perlman
An award-winning ”idiot cinemascope short film’ by Maurice Huvelin, who sez:
Pilot for a ridiculous series project about legends, historical characters, famous films and amazing series… To be seen with binoculars, telescope or magnifying glass ! In this first short comedy : BIG, FAT & DIDIER, three big hunters, are singing in the far Far North…
You might want to go fullscreen. It’s shot from very far away.
An innovative multi-award winning rubber band animation by Montréal based French filmmaker Guillaume Blanchet.
She’s young, dreamy and fearless, she drives cars way too fast, she’s also a yamakasi. She likes adventure, fireworks and unrelenting seas.
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Two stills from classic 2D Disney movies 101 Dalmations and The Sword In The Stone given new life by digital artist Tyson Murphy, who used Photoshop to enhance them, adding depth and colour.
This appears to be the start of an ongoing project.
A 2011 stop motion short by Miguel Jiron, created by photographing and animating drips and splashes of paint.
More of Jiron’s work here.
Astronomer Liz (there are no second names at this, the adorable level of learning) from the Royal Greenwich Observatory explains the scale of just about everything with the help of a nifty animation created for the Observatory’s educational programme by London studio Beakus.
Show it to a small child. Or revert to being one.