Just getting to know my puppets… and finding out how hard it is to light against a black background. Hopefully you can pick up the motion of the characters.
This is one of a couple of tests I’ve been running to try out some new puppets and a rigged set of the moon. Hopefully there will be a short film to follow soon.
Hi, I’m new here and here’s one of my videos… I hope I posted this correctly!
South Africa: not only host of the FIFA World Cup 2010, also a country full of complex situations. This animation is a reaction to one of them. The film is dedicated to all South Africans. Go South Africa!
Script: Robbert-Jan Vos & Robin Stam, art direction & animation: Renske Mijnheer, director: Robbert-Jan Vos, score: Bastiaan Egberts, sound design: Jaap Wajer, grading: Barry Clarke and voice-over: Kevin Walton.
copyright © 2010 Dwarv & Sir Moving Images
A stop motion animated film by Pat Dorian, music by Amar Ibrahim. Based off the word game App produced by Freeverse.
This truly inspired stop motion work by Haley Morris is a visual metaphor for the progression of Alzheimer’s. This six minute story portrays an old man who’s struggling to keep hold of the objects he manages to fish out of the ominous ocean beneath him.
The technique seems outstandingly suited for the subject and is clear that Haley has witnessed the damaging effects of this terrible mental deterioration, you can tell when the creating force comes from the heart. That’s probably why it won a well deserved Best Animated Short award at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2009.
The London International Animation Festival is organising a fabulous event with American cult animator Bruce Bickford. This is a rare, one-night-only presentation of his films, featuring the exclusive English premiere of his new film that he has been working on for many years – Cas’l (excerpt bellow).
Bickford is best known for his collaborations with musician Frank Zappa in the 1970s, he’s an underground artist who has mystified animation critics and inspired generations of animators, while somehow eluding fame. He has been described as the world’s only “outsider artist” working in the medium of animation.
The event takes place at The Horse Hospital, 30 Colonnade. London, WC1N 1JD on Monday March 15th at 7pm. Nearest tube is Russell Square.
One of the most fascinating facts about this film is that the main character was based on the actress Laurie Maher, whose eyes were filmed and composited into the actual puppet. Have a close look, it is as eerie as powerful.
Madame Tutli-Putli boards the night train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past.
She travels alone, facing both the kindness and menace of strangers. As day descends into dark, she finds herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure. Adrift between real and imagined worlds, Madame Tutli-Putli confronts her demons and is drawn into an undertow of mystery and suspense.
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski of Clyde Henry Productions directed this wonderful film back in 2007, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. As with many personal projects Chris and Maciek were not only the filmmakers but also played the role of animators, sculptors, collage artists, screenplay writers and art directors.
In a similar line to (but not quite) Creature Comforts but with a greener objective, this series of hilarious stop-motion animations are sending out messages on what we can do to help the environment. Each story addresses an issue in a clever and funny way; and the characters deliver a beast of a performance, you can see them all at the farting cow website and learn more about the characters themselves. Even the website is solar powered!
A beautiful story told with a Burtonesque dark rhyme narration. It is very imaginative and with a clear directorial voice. There’s no need for elaborate action by the characters or intricate camera movements, the charisma of the characters and their stories makes up for all of that and it manages to keep you on edge, wanting to know what will happen next.
“This is the tale of Left-brained Larry & Right-brained Rachel, a Siamese twin couple, stuck together by the head and thus resulting in them sharing only one brain. Using exactly fifty percent each, their separate personalities are kept intact and following the theory, being either left– or rightbrained, Larry and Rachel are complete opposites. They have a hard time being stuck together with their counterpart, but not only do they hate each other, their abnormality also makes them dislikable to the people around them, leaving them with a melancholy life of bullying and parental neglect”
It was written by Sally A. Ward in June 2009. Niels Michael Wee, one of the creators is starting up an animation company called Artificial Clay, doing commercials and other short films, while Sally Andersen Ward does animation and live action films independently. In 2010 L&R will take part in the main competition on the Swiss CineGlobe International Film Festival in Cern.
I can’t believe this was made with a phone, some people are over skilled… Made with a Nokia XpressMusic 5800 for the contest : “2 Minutos de Cine”. Design and animation by Rob Díaz, music by Chromeo.