Watch Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring as a Visual Animation
Using his Music Animation Machine, Stephen Malinowski created a visual representation of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring for the composition’s 100th anniversary.Read More
Animation
Turning Street View Images Into Time-Lapse Films
It never ceases to amaze me what a little creativity can bring to a massive set of data such as Google’s Street View. Hyperlapse videos are a variation of traditional time lapse filmmaking in which the camera travels while also panning, rotating and tilting. The effect can be striking or dizzying. But under normal circumstances, coordinating Read MoreRead More
Caldera – A Short Animated Film by Evan Viera
Through the eyes of a young girl suffering from mental illness, CALDERA glimpses into a world of psychosis and explores a world of ambiguous reality and the nature of life and death.Read More
The Real Ending to Oscar Winning Animated Short “Paperman”
Earlier this year, the Disney Animated short Paperman was a hit in Internet Circles going on to win the 2013 Oscar for best animated short. Now College Humor continues the story of a boy, a girl, and a paper man who just wants a threesomeRead More
Short Film: Flamingo Pride
The Story of the only heterosexual Flamingo in his desperate attempt to find love.Read More
A Minimalist Explaination of How DNA works
BBC Knowledge and Learning is exploring a wide variety of topics from social history to science in a series of three-minute online Explainer documentaries, and commissioned Territory Studio (territorystudio.com) to produce an animated film on the subject of DNA. As Will Samuel, lead designer and animator on the project explains, the approach taken wasn’t just Read MoreRead More
A Mind-Bending Remix of 1960s Americana by the Internet’s Favorite Animator
The Atlantic interviews Cyriak Harris on his peculiar animation technique. The Atlantic: How did you find American Thrift and decide to give it the Cyriak treatment? Cyriak Harris: I regularly use the archive.org website to look for interesting stock footage and inspiration. In this case the whole film had such a classic dated look to it and an almost sinister consumerist ideology, Read MoreRead More
Filmmaking Tips From the Disney Masters
Jonathan Cooper details some advice from the animators and filmmaker at Disney Studios. #1. Find a Hook for Your Character - Andreas Deja Use your life experience when making artistic choices Draw on your memories to add depth to characters Always ask: what is this character thinking and why is he thinking that way? #2. Don’t Animate Drawings, Animate Feelings - Read MoreRead More
Watch All 5 Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts
The five Oscar nominated short films are all available online – a common thread in the work here being simple story telling using great visual and musical techniques: Adam and Dog, directed by Minkyu Lee http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wtTQ9dPGBqg Fresh Guacamole, directed by “PES” http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FQMO6vjmkyI Head Over Heels, directed by Timothy Reckart & Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vcEQaAyxw9E Maggie Read MoreRead More
An Animated History of Valentine’s Day
Bread n’ Beyond explains the tragic history of St. Valentine’s day.Read More
Paperman – A Oscar Nominated Short Mixing Traditional Animation with CGI
Introducing a groundbreaking technique that seamlessly merges computer-generated and hand-drawn animation techniques, first-time director John Kahrs takes the art of animation in a bold new direction with the Oscar®-nominated short, “Paperman.” Using a minimalist black-and-white style, the short follows the story of a lonely young man in mid-century New York City, whose destiny takes an Read MoreRead More
Roundtable on Making Feature Animated Films
Los Angeles Times reporter Rebecca Keegan talks to animation directors Mark Andrews, Peter Ramsey, Chris Butler, Rich Moore and Genndy Tartakovsky on the challenges of making feature animated movies and the future of animation.Read More