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TAG FOR “Experimental”Cartoon Brew's home for up-to-the-minute, unedited announcements and press releases direct from industry sources.
January 31, 2012 3:18 am
I’m new to the work of Michel Klöfkorn, but he’s been creating music videos, commercials and experimental films in Germany since the 1990s. He’s a relentless experimenter whose animation techniques look familiar but foreign at the same time. Take, for example the first short after the jump, Fluid Paper. We’ve seen books used as the raw material for animation before, but Klöfkorn charts exciting new territory with the concept. 3 Comments » posted in Animators, Experimental, Shorts, Germany, Michel Klöfkorn January 23, 2012 1:55 pm
Place some watercolors and crayons in the hands of Brooklyn-based filmmaker/animator Jeff Scher and you’ll get this mesmerizing (mostly) nonfigurative music video for the band American Royalty. 2 Comments » posted in Experimental, Music Videos, American Royalty, Jeff Scher January 20, 2012 1:51 am
An elegant sense of symmetry and order forms the world of Boris Labbé’s Kyrielle. The repeating rhythms and cycles have a hypnotic quality, and encourage the viewer’s eye to wander playfully and explore different figures. Labbé accomplished all this with just 285 watercolor drawings which he later composited digitally and projected as a video installation. Kyrielle was made at the French animation school EMCA (Ecole des Métiers du Cinéma d’Animation). 2 Comments » posted in Experimental, Student, Boris Labbé, EMCA, France, Watercolor January 16, 2012 5:08 am
It’s rare to browse through someone’s on-line animation videos and enjoy everything they’ve produced. That’s the happy feeling I experienced watching the work of French animator Paul Cabon. In fact, it was too difficult to choose a single piece of his to share so I’ve included three more of his films after the jump. His work is packed with fresh visual concepts coupled with strong control of color and shape and a keen sense of humor. His animation of human figures moves in an almost experimental fashion, which is to say it doesn’t follow the rules of conventional character animation but fits perfectly with the rest of his style. Cabon graduated from the French animation school La Poudrière a couple years back. See more of his work after the jump: 7 Comments » posted in Animators, Experimental, Shorts, Student, France, La Poudrière, Paul Cabon December 12, 2011 12:05 am
Donato Sansone (aka Milkyeyes) is back. His previous film was the experimental Videogioco. His new film, Topo Glassato al Cioccolato, is (literally) a mind-blowing stream-of-consciousness pencil sketch animation. Not Safe For Work. 13 Comments » posted in Experimental, Donato Sansone December 5, 2011 3:20 am
A simple but effective experiment: Daniel Savage, creator of the iPhone app Gif Shop, wanted to try animating Chris Van Allsburg’s classic children’s book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick 6 Comments » posted in Books, Experimental, Daniel Savage, iPad December 2, 2011 9:26 am
I love animated GIFs and the seemingly infinite variations on the form. Comic book artist Kerry Callen has come up with a new twist: animating vintage comic book covers and he pulls it off quite well. (via Mark Evanier) 10 Comments » posted in Comics, Experimental, Internet/Blogs, Animated GIF November 4, 2011 11:48 am
Is it a film or a game? Interactivity and non-linear storytelling have been more the realm of gaming than short filmmaking, but the two fields are slowly merging. In the coming years, interactivity promises to become a valuable tool in the short filmmaker’s arsenal. Bla Bla created for the NFB by Montreal director Vincent Morisset is one of the more ambitious and successful interactive film experiments I’ve seen. The press release below contains lots of details about what it’s all about. But first, be sure to spend some time exploring the film itself by going HERE.
CREDITS Sound, Music and Voice Programming and Technology Visual Design and Animation Puppet Armature Design Rotoscopy Photography Additional Prototype Programming Prototype 3D Modelling and Animation (Thanks, J. J. Sedelmaier)
9 Comments » posted in Experimental, Interactive, Shorts, NFB, Vincent Morisset
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