I'd Like To Be from David Firth on Vimeo.
Stop Frame animated made in 2005 but didn't edit until 2007. Abstract but with a sort of plot. A man leaves his wife and kids and buries himself. Music by LOOM.I loved the effect when you see him driving the car from outside the windshield, the lights and shadows etc. Good stuff.
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Shadowplay (2002) from Dan B. on Vimeo.
In August of 1945, in a closing chapter of the second World War, a blinding flash lit the sky over Hiroshima. The places that were shielded from that searing light became permanent shadows on the city's walls and streets, while the city itself was decimated. "Shadowplay" is the story of Akio, a shadow of a young boy, who wanders the city searching for his family, while trying to make sense of the unfathomable atrocity.
What Author says:
I am often asked what the catalyst was for me to create "Shadowplay". I first learned of the “shadow” images left from the atomic blast back in high school. Being part of a generation that is desensitized to violence, the photos of victims’ charred bodies, grotesque deformities, or other complications from radiation exposure did not strike as much of an emotional chord with me as the “shadows” of Hiroshima did.
With a blinding flash, huge slabs of concrete worked like emulsion paper, creating silhouetted photographs of that split-second of power. Shadows were left of people going about their everyday lives: a man washing a window, one casually entering a bank, another about to whip his horse. No other word more aptly describes these ghosted images in Hiroshima other than “haunting”.
These are the reflex images I think of when there is talk of nuclear threats or weapons of mass destruction. Like chalk outlines at a crime scene, the faceless poses make me realize, “This could have been anyone, anywhere.” For someone who never lived through World War II or the Atomic Age, the shadows are a timeless, unforgettable portrayal of life stopping.
As I began my career in animation, I tried to explore the medium and its boundaries in dramatic storytelling. I have been fascinated by how an audience can be moved by something so “inanimate” as animation, and wanted to see how far I could push this boundary. The shadows of Hiroshima seemed obvious subject matter to me. I knew the difficulty in trying to have an audience relate to a character with no face and no eyes, or for that matter, ones that don’t even move. But, as I learned during the basics of animation, poses are the most important aspect of character animation. No poses are more expressive and have more subtext than the shadow-people of Hiroshima.
I hope you find this film to be a touching, respectful, and heartfelt film about the horrors of war. For an American making a film about a Japanese tragedy, it seems that my film could only be aimed at a global audience, for all sides of conflicts worldwide. But I also hope than you can see the power animation can have as a means for dramatic storytelling, and that the medium still has uncharted territories to explore. I hope the images in “Shadowplay” move you the way they moved me. Thank you.
Dan Blank
Awards and Honors:
LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL
Winner: Best Animated Short
STUDENT ACADEMY AWARDS BRONZE MEDAL: ANIMATION CATEGORY
STUDENT EMMY AWARDS
FIRST PLACE: TRADITIONAL ANIMATION
HEARTLAND FILM FESTIVAL
Winner: Jimmy Stewart Crystal Heart Award
ANGELUS AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Animation Category
BIG BEAR LAKE FILM FESTIVAL
Winner: Audience Award: Best Animation
RED BANK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Winner: Best Animation
ASIFA-EAST ANIMATION FESTIVAL Second Place: Best Student Animation
FIRST LOOK STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL
Second Place: Best Film
NYU FIRST RUN FESTIVAL -Best Achievement in Animation -Adam Balsano Award for a Film with a Social Significance -Award of Excellence for Cinematography - Award of Excellence for Art Direction - Award of Excellence for Score
PRODUCTION AWARDS AND GRANTS -THE 2001 George Heinemann Production Award-THE 2001 Russell Hexter Film Maker Award-THE 2001 Thomas-Gidro Frank Award-THE 2001 Clive Davis Award for Excellence in Music-THE 2000 Richard Protovin Memorial Award-THE 2000 Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation Award
http://www.danmation.com/home.html
Writer, Director, Animator and Produced by Dan Blank & Cynthia Allen
Cast: Jennifer Kato, Takeo Matsushita, Jun Kim, Ako.
Music: Ryan Shore
JumpTrumpRumpBump from Molasses Murphy on Vimeo.
"A gorgeous experimental animation, JumpTrumpRumpBump brings together recycling, a little girl, escaped convict animals and Jazz." Author says about the technique he uses: "It's traditional animation for the girl and the scenes outside the treehouse at night and walking to the jam session. Pencil on paper photographed with a digital camera. The rest is digital cutout animation. Lots of drawn pieces of the characters scanned in, edited in Photoshop and then animated in After Effects. The cameras & compositing are done in that software too", and I think it's really a good job.
His real name is Justin Daniel Murphy. He's a Canadian Animator and Designer. He recently graduated from AnimationMentor.com and he has also received a Bachelor of Media Arts (Animation Major) from Emily Carr University.
Cheers!
Everything I pubblish on this blog has a particular attitude to art, graphic or something results unique in my perception of things. Don't mind if you don't like the subject of this video (my wife can't see this for more than 15 sec. after the man takes the knive...), but try to immagine what stand behind and all the working hours for assemble such a good product. My rate is ***** five stars.
Have a nice day, Mike.
Gnarls Barkley - Who's Gonna Save My Soul from Chris Milk on Vimeo.
Vincent is a stop motion animated short film by Tim Burton that was made in 1982. It is about a boy named Vincent Malloy who wishes he was Vincent Price. He is obsessed with the stories of Edgar Allen Poe, and imagines himself within a dark world akin to that of The Raven. Vincent's family tries to get him to go out and play like a normal kid, but Vincent will have none of it... he's too busy being tortured by his wild flights of fancy.
Burton made the six minute film over a two month period with his fellow animator at Disney, Rick Heinrichs. Vincent can be seen on the special edition DVD of The Nightmare Before Christmas, along with Burton's other short, Frankenweenie.
Fast Facts
Narrated by Vincent Price, who later appeared in Edward Scissorhands
Written and Directed by Tim Burton
Produced by Rick Heinrichs
Animated by Stephen Chiodo
Cinematography by Victor Abdalov
Run Time: 6 Minutes
Budget: $60,000
I find the work of this guy recently and immediatly want to post it!
Here it is some of his credits:
Film Festivals
Oct 2007 Student Shorts Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
Oct 2007 Chicago International Childrens Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Sep 2007 South Dakota Film Festival, Aderdeen, SD
Aug 2007 SF Shorts Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Jun 2007 12th Babel Festival, Athens, Greece
May 2007 Short Film Corner - Festival de Cannes, Paris, France
May 2007 4th Narkolepsy Short Film Festival, Grenoble, France
May 2007 UC Davis Asian American Association Film Festival, Davis, CA
Mar 2007 San Francisco International Children’s Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Mar 2007 The Daily Reel Online Shorts Program at SXSW, Austin, TX
Mar 2007 AFI Dallas International Film Festival, Dallas TX
Mar 2007 East Lansing Film Festival, East Lansing, MI
Please visit his site for more informations.
The Autor wrote and directed this video to be a part of a program Red Bull organized together with the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, collecting creatives from around the world.
Featured on Motionographer and Drawn on september 30, 2008
http://motionographer.com/2008/09/30/reb_bull_can/
http://drawn.ca/2008/09/30/the-can-by-carlos-lascano/
Big Buck Bunny tells the story of a giant rabbit with a heart bigger than himself. When one sunny day three rodents rudely harass him, something snaps... and the rabbit ain't no bunny anymore! In the typical cartoon tradition he prepares the nasty rodents a comical revenge.
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license
http://www.bigbuckbunny.org
The story of two strange characters exploring a capricious and seemingly infinite machine. The elder, Proog, acts as a tour-guide and protector, happily showing off the sights and dangers of the machine to his initially curious but increasingly skeptical protege Emo. As their journey unfolds we discover signs that the machine is not all Proog thinks it is, and his guiding takes on a more desperate aspect.
Elephants Dream is a story about communication and fiction, made purposefully open-ended as the world's first 3D "Open movie". The film itself is released under the Creative Commons license, along with the entirety of the production files used to make it (roughly 7 Gigabytes of data). The software used to make the movie is the free/open source animation suite blender along with other open source software, thus allowing the movie to be remade, remixed and re-purposed with only a computer and the data on the DVD or download.
