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August 14, 2011 3:32 am
Treat yourself to some Slap Back Jack on this fine Sunday. It’s a curious yet oddly compelling piece of children’s animation created and directed by New York-based Mark Newell, and animated by Jisoo Rim, Jessica Polaniecki and Newell. 13 Comments » posted in Shorts, Stop Motion, Mark Newell 
August 4, 2011 11:41 pm
Reverse beard pixilation is done so often it’s almost an animation meme, but there’s always room for one more, especially when it’s as well done as Peter Simon’s Trim. The comments on the Reddit post about the film are interesting too—”I love how my assumption of who he is changed with each new hair style,” “Nazi, punk kid, white trash, hipster, biker, Jesus, Ultra-Jesus”—as well as the response from the director Simon: “That is something we were talking about while we were working on this. Each style has a very specific stereotype attached.” 5 Comments » posted in Shorts, Stop Motion, Beard, Pixilation
August 4, 2011 11:30 am
Gulp is a short stop-mo animation created by “Sumo Science” (Ed Patterson and Will Studd) for client Aardman Animations. The film has broken a world record for the “largest stop-motion animation set”, with the largest scene stretching over 11,000 square feet. It was shot frame-by-frame on location on a beach in South Wales, using the camera on a Nokia N8 smart phone. But even more inspiring than the film itself (embed below) is the making-of video (click here). (Thanks, Craig Yoe and Simon Acosta) 13 Comments » posted in Stop Motion, Aardman Animations
July 30, 2011 11:30 am
Visiting a museum on a weekend is a great thing to do. And thanks to brothers Mark Osborne (More and Kung Fu Panda) and Kent Osborne (Adventure Time, Spongebob Squarepants) you can do so in less than five minutes. Created in an improvisational fashion during three days at the museum, this pixilated short takes a journey through Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), through its current exhibition Art in the Streets with works by Banksy, Rammellzee and Kenny Scharf. 10 Comments » posted in Stop Motion, Kent Osborne, Mark Osborne
July 27, 2011 4:18 pm
I posted the trailer for Second Hand a few months ago, and knowing Isaac King’s track record as a commercial animation director, I had high hopes for it. Having seen the entire short now, it pleases me to report that Second Hand ranks amongst the most fully conceived and visually arresting shorts that I’ve come across this year. The most striking element is the visual world that King has concocted through a novel combination of stop motion and hand drawn animation. The world lies somewhere between flat and three-dimensional, and the characters fit nicely inbetween with quasi-cubist faces and stylized patterns of movement. It’s the type of visual experience befitting a larger screen than my laptop and I hope to see it in a theater someday. The film’s graphic originality almost made me overlook the powerful storytelling, which “examines the imbalance and waste” created by the modern-day obsessions of saving time and collecting junk, which King shows are actually two sides of the same coin. As the film began, I initially thought it was headed for a simplistic pro-environmental creed, but there’s actually a far more sophisticated and poignant message embedded within. 11 Comments » posted in Shorts, Stop Motion, Canada, Isaac King
July 9, 2011 9:00 am
We post a lot of new student films on Cartoon Brew, so as an interesting contrast I thought it would be worthwhile (and fun) to watch Joel Fletcher’s 1982 stop-motion film Encounter. Although not technically a student film, Fletcher recently digitally remastered this 29 year-old amateur production, one of his first attempts to make puppets, build sets and animate characters of his own design. Today he’s is a professional animator (Nightmare Before Christmas, Dinosaur, King Kong, Land Of The Lost, X-Men: The Last Stand) and recently added a creative process blog to his website, which has much behind the scenes info about the making of Encounter. 19 Comments » posted in Stop Motion, Student, Joel Fletcher
July 7, 2011 12:15 pm
Cartoon Brew’s Student Animation Festival continues today with the third film in our line-up: Chief Serenbe by Evan Curtis from the Savannah College of Art and Design. This stop motion short really stood out to us as we were watching the entries. The film isn’t conventionally narrative, but engages the viewer by taking us into the world of a drifter. It is a surprisingly emotional piece of work and manages to create a distinctive sense of time and place. Curtis’s cinematic approach and use of depth of field makes us forget the star of the film is just a small toy. To comment on the film or read ‘making of’ notes from the filmaker, click HERE. Cartoon Brew’s second annual Student Animation Festival is made possible through the generous support of Titmouse and JibJab. No Comments » posted in Shorts, Stop Motion, Student, Evan Curtis, Savannah College of Art and Design
June 14, 2011 7:30 pm
Short, silent, but priceless color footage of Jim Henson working at his animation stand in Bethesda, MD around 1961. (Thanks, Floyd Bishop for the tip and the Henson Company for posting the film) |
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