Wednesday, December 12, 2012

My Animations - Animation Mentor Class 01: Basic Foundations

And here I have it! After three months, those amazing 12 weeks, in my first Class in the incredible online animation school, Animation Mentor, I have my first "progress reel"!
What is a progress reel? Is a little movie where I put (from the newer to the older) all the animations I did in this first term.

This term I had as a teacher the one and only amazing animator and teacher Anthony Wong, and boy, am I happy that I chose him! He has worked through out the industry in everything there is to work in animation, games, commercials, TV shows (the Simpsons) and feature films (he worked in Walt Disney studios in films such as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and is now working at Pixar, and has worked on Ratatouille, Cars2 and some more and is now working on Monsters University).
I don't know exactly how are the other mentors at Animation Mentor, but Anthony Wong has certainly put a high standard of quality in the teaching. Never in my life was I part of such a learning environment, it was great, it was perfect. But I'm quite confident about my next mentor as well! He is great and I hand picked him for the next term. His name is Marlon Nowe and he is currently working at Walt Disney Studio (worked in Tangled, Wreck-it Ralph and the short Paperman, as far as I know).


I'll just explain, in order of appearance the animations I have here.

  • The first one is the last I did, I actually completed it last week, and the objective of it was to refine and finish a walk with personality with that little character.
  • The week before, the next shot that look fairly the same, was just a "blocking" stage, where we create some poses with that 3D character, and come up with a timing and show it to our mentor.
  • The two after that, I had to go through a blocking stage again, but now for a normal walk, what they call a vanilla walk, which is the character just walking, with no personality, so the two are blocking stage and refine stage after that.
  • The one next was Tailor, this little character that resembles a squirrel. That character is there so we could learn more about animating that tail, overlap actions it is.
  • After tailor I have a pendulum like thingy, which was the introduction to overlapping actions, that pendulum like arm, lifeless, as opposite to Tailor's tail.
  • The little ball going all around was an obstacle course ball, for us to learn the principle of squash and stretch.
  • The two different balls, as you can imagine, are different weights balls, so we can learn more about the difference animating something heavy and something very light.
  • And the first one was really a normal ball (football or basketball) jumping, the animation every animator had to do at least once in his life!



The truth is, this last three months went by in a rush! Animation Mentor is truly super intensive! And in this last week of the Basic Foundations Class, this is what I ended up with.





Probably in the future I will update this video, with better renderings of the animations, and better to look at, but for now I'll leave it like this.
I can't wait for the next term to start, but for the next two weeks I'll be able to take a little rest and enjoy family and Christmas!

So I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Sharing Animation - Franz Kafka's Country Doctor (Koji Yamamura, 2007)

And here I come again with another animation to share with everyone! This week I chose a somewhat dark environment, but it is a very well done and very well conceptualized animation.

The director nowadays is like a guru of animation and a very well know artist. Besides the godlike animator and director Hayao Miyazaki he was the only Japanese animator to receive a Oscar nomination (this honor with the short called Mt. Head).

But this week's animation short I'm here to share is called Franz Kafka's Country Doctor (Kafka Inaka Isha), by the japanese independente animator, Koji Yamamura.

Apart from the downer mood, it really is a very recomended watching!

HERE you can find Yamamura's website.


Here it is, Kafka's Country Doctor, by Koji Yamamura. (It's divided in three parts because it was in better quality)







Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you soon with another great sharing (next time more happy themed)



No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Sharing Animation - The Aroma of Tea (Michael Dudok de Wit, 2006)

Today I wanted to share with you all a short animation that has widely influenced me, and I love it so much that I actually used it's unique graphic quality in one of my works.

This very short animation is called The Aroma of Tea by Michael Dudok de Wit. This is the third short animation that I share by this great artist, which can really show my love for his masterpieces.

This one very much simpler than the others, but still you could find a very deep meaning in it. But in the end it's a very "sit back and enjoy" kind of film, so I don't have much to say about it. Well it was painted with tea! =)

First I want to share this interview about the artist:




And here is this wonderful art:



Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week with another inspirational animation!


No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

My Animations - Traditional Animation Project

Today I want to wrap up, finally, my university animations here in my blog. So there's only one more to talk about and this one was the one that took me longer to get as far as it is. Just because it's a 2 min short all done with traditional animation, so for those who have experienced something like this, they'll know how long this can take for one person alone to make. And that's why in some parts it isn't finished. Maybe in the future this will be one more project for me to finish, but not right now, as I'm busy with another even more awesome stuff like learning animation from the top animators in the world!

This project was a personal short that intended to honor the animation world. Not only its history and how it grew to be this spectacular art form we know today, but also to make reference of some of the most influential artists in the area.

So in the end what I chose to represent were some of the objects that preceded animation itself, objects that created the illusion of movement through images before it went out onto the screens. Many objects like the thaumatrope, phenakistoscope, zoetrope/praxinoscope, mutoscope are here represented but also the film and paper itself are shown here as methods of creating motion. The whole animation is representing and simulating other objects, but in the end it was made in paper, everything was drawn, so the paper itself cannot be forgotten, that is the reason that the main character, an illusionist, since he is creating the illusion of motion, the illusion of life, is drawn in such a sketched way, and organic drawing that is moving for it's own, has a life but still is a drawing. That is also the reason that the last thing animated is the paper itself.

Not only the objects and methods of animation are represented but also animators and their work. The first representation is a generic bouncing ball, and it's there because it is one of the first exercises a person learning animation must do, so is an exercise that every professional animator has done one way or the other.
Then some artists are referenced, like Winsor McCay with Gertie the Dinosaur, Norman McLaren with Blinkity Blank and Pas de Deux, and also traditional animation studios like Walt Disney Studios with the enchanted broom of the Sorcerer's Apprentice part of Fantasia, and 3D studios like Pixar and Dreamworks animation studios with Luxor Jr. and the fishing rod/line.

(all the links are to images search in Google and Wikipedia, I think all the animations I refer above can be found in the internet if you search for it)

Of course there were many other artists and studios that were equally, if not more, important for the development of this art form, but this was a personal choice, having in mind that when I first planned this short, I was starting my animation studies, so the references are not as knowledgeable as I could have make them today. And also, this was to be just a quick reference to a very few group of artists that were/are in fact important for the evolution of animation. Another interesting aspect of this animation is that some parts I animated when I haven't really animated almost nothing at all before, so I was even more an amateur than I am today, and other parts were animated almost two years later, so the quality in movement is clearly better.


To finish up this rambling, I want to mention that although many parts are made as references to other animations, all the animation in this unfinished short was done by me, and no method of copying animation, like rotoscopy was used at all.

So here it is, the most time I spent, ever, in any kind of project, and still needing more time (maybe in the future, who knows?), one of the animations of my last year of university, this traditional animation project.



Tradicional Animation Project from Rodrigo Costa on Vimeo.


For now on, the animations I'm creating are for the online animation school Animation Mentor which I'm currently in week 6! So stay tuned!

Sharing Animation - The Silence Beneath the Bark (Joanna Lurie, 2010)

Hey animation lovers!

This week I would like to share with you a quite recent, beautiful and very deep short animation I found some time ago when I was in university. We were to look for animations that had different techniques, and I chose to talk about simplicity in different techniques and simplicity in different ways. This short has a simplicity of it's own, mostly in the main characters that although are CG three dimensional characters, are so simple yet so expressive.

There are many aspects of this short that I just love. One of them is the obvious good taste for composition of the creators. Another thing is the incredible script it has, another way to show that no words are needed to tell a good story.

This hybrid animation with CG and traditional mixing together in a perfect and pleasant composition has great texture and it really is a good piece of art.

So enjoy the 2007 Annecy Judge Award Winner short The Silence Beneath the Bark (Original title: Le Silence Sous L'écorce) by Joanna Lurie.




Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you soon with another beautiful animation short!


No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Sharing Animation - Gertie the Dinossaur (Winsor McCay, 1914)

Here we are for another short animation for you to enjoy, and since last week I posted a recent one (2010 Love & Theft), today I'm posting a really old one (actually, the oldest in my list!)

So, as a really old one, and really influential one, I wish I could give it a special attention and really enhance the incredible work this animator did. His name is Winsor McCay and this animation is called Gertie the Dinosaur.

Before this animation, McCay had already done two other animations, one called "Little Nemo" (which Google celebrated in a Doodle this week) and other called "The Story of a Mosquito". This last one had a problem with the audience, that tought the mosquito was moving through wires (imagine in the very early 1990's thinking that was actually a moving drawing). So in the next animation McCay decided to animate a dinossaur, to prove his drawings were moving.

Ten thousand drawings of Gertie were done for this animation. This is the first time a character is actually given life in a screen, with real emotions and real responces that people recognize and have empathy.


After this animation he made several other animations, including another one with Gertie in 1921, but this one went out to be his masterpiece and one of the most influential animations of all time.

Enjoy Gertie the Dinossaur by Winsor McCay.





Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week with another influential animation!


No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Sharing Animation - Love & Theft (Andreas Hykade, 2010)

Hello peeps!

Since I started AM I haven't actually kept my promise of sharing a new inspirational animation every week, but hey, I'm trying to do my best and today, although I'm quite late with my assignment, I thought I could come and share some other special animation with you!

For this week I bring a recent short animation called "Love & Theft", that is one hell of an artistic piece in my opinion. The creator, director and animator of this wonderful animation is Andreas Hykade.

I think this animation is highly illustrational, and the way he explores the loops is just great! It's somewhat fast, but you can clearly see most of his references to many cartoons of many kinds and also (I've read this in a news blog) some other animators, such as Bill Plympton). Among the many animations that are referenced you can find Betty Boop, The Hat, mickey mouse and donald duck, his own Ring of Fire, Sponge Bob, Droopy, and many many others.

Please enjoy this wonderful digital animation "Love & Theft" by Andreas Hykade.




Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week, or soon =P, with another great animation!


No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Sharing Animation - The Band Concert (Walt Disney Studios - Wilfred Jackson, 1935)

Hello again dear fellow animation lovers!

Finally my longe holidays are over and I'm finally back on studying! And what excitement it is to be in one of the top schools of animation in the world! That's right, yesterday I started my fantastic one and a half year animation learning at Animation Mentor! The happiness I'm feeling right now is quite incredible and indescribable!

But enough about that! Since I'm back to work, I thought it would be a perfect time to get back with the animation sharing in my blog!

So to get back from this long absense, I'm here to show you one of the most powerful short animations I've ever seen and certainly my favorite from that studio!

The fantastic studio, as we all know it, is the Disney Animation Studios, and the wonderful short is the 1935 The Band Concert, directed by Wilfred Jackson.

Starting with the well known "Silly Symphonies" was the goal of achieving a great relationship between music and animation. In the book "The Illusion of Life", chapter 11: The Disney Sounds, there's a paragraph I would like to quote about this short.


<< In those first symphonies, the actions had been simple, staying with dance steps and runs that easily could be made to follow the beat of the music. But with Walt's insistance on humor and personality, the films built quickly into stories that demanded the acting match the tempo, too. This reached a peak in 1935 with the Band Concert, which combined well-known music with strong personalities and a situation played entirely in pantomime. It was rare combination, reflecting still another use of music as language. As one producer said, "Who else would take a band concert out of Walt's boyhood, mix in 'William Tell' and 'Turkey in the Straw' and a Kansas cyclone, and come out with a performance that would enchant Toscanini?" (Tipical of Walt, he did not stop there but began thinking of an ever bigger use of the same principle. He called that one Fantasia.) >>


This short for me is the perfect demonstration of in which levels can music and animation come close together. This is a highly inspirational short, as far as I'm concerned.

Enjoy The Band Concert by Wilfred Jackson and the fantastic Walt Disney crew!




Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week (when I'll be in week 2 in animation mentor!) for another awesome animation!


No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

My Animations - Pepe Le Moko Intro

Alright! After this long holidays (maybe my last) that are about to end, I've put myself together to update my blog, finally! Yes, they're about to end because I'm in the countdown for the most expected learning experience of my life! Well, if you're tuned you'll be hearing a lot from it in the next 18 months!

For this post I wanted to talk a little about my latest and last work for university, and the one that I'm most proud of, and yes, this one is completly finished. I've added a whole page for the process of creation of this animation, but it was all in Portuguese, because it was a follow up of an exhibition I had the pleasure to make with this animation. But still if you visit the tab "Exibição" there's some images to be looked at, scenario designs, character designs and lettering choices. Also there's a video with animation tests, the animation side by side with the animatic (in motion storyboard, sort of).

So this animation is a intro shot for the movie Pepe Le Moko (Link to IMDB), a movie about a gangster that is imprisoned in his own tries to scape from the police. He is a wanted criminal that lives in a labirinthic city where the police can't reach, but he wants much more to his life than just be a fugitive in that overcrowded city. So one day when he meets a beautiful woman from Paris, he can't stop thinking about his old days of liberty and running away with the woman.


For this animation I decided to use the wonderful style created by the Master animator Dudok de Wit in his beautiful animation called "The Aroma of Tea". With the style I tried to create a narrative told only with little balls moving around in a painted (with China Ink) claustrophobic city. In the whole intro shot there are 21 painted scenarios.

There were two main concerns to me in this short, first was how to have different characters when every single one of them are little balls. And the second, how to tell a story using only those circles. It was not my intention for the narrative to be completely understandable, there was much of an abstract feeling in it, but still the main drama was to be told and understood, and I hope that goal was achieved because it took me long hours to animate all those little balls and to make it mean something.

With this project I won a funding to make an exhibition with the animation and the artistic pieces created in the production. It was a huge honor to me and I hope I was able to pass along a little of my passion for animation.

Finally, I proudly present the title sequence for Pépé Le Moko.




I'll be posting in the next days other works that I made in my last year in university! See you soon!

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Sharing Animation - One Minute Puberty (Alexander Gellner, 2011)

So I've been out for quite a while now finishing university and a little trip and all. Well but I must continue to share the animations!

For a quicky then, since it is too a really short animation, I'll share with you one of the first animation that I added in my list for sharing (yes, I have a list), that funny enough was so recent that only this year it could be nominated for awards, and it was nominated, for a big one actually.

The name of the animation is One Minute Puberty by Alexander Gellner, and was nominated for the latest annecy festival!

Not only this surprisingly good animation was his graduation project, but also it was in a university that didn't have any animation department, HTW Berlin, in Germany, so he did it really confident, which is amazing.

Since the first time I saw it I loved it, so I hope you enjoy it.

One minute puberty by Alexander Gellner



Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you soon, hopefully next week, for another great animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Friday, June 15, 2012

Sharing Animation - Vincent (Tim Burton, 1982)

Although I'm very busy at this time with university I couldn't skip one more week in my sharings. So I'm bringing today another stop motion animation, this one made by Tim Burton.

The name of the animation short is Vincent and is about a young who wanted to be like the actor Vincent Price and his legendary characters. The actor is the narrator and is reading a poem written by Tim Burton.

HERE is the link for the poem.

The mood and the elements of the whole short are, of course, signed with Burton's caracteristic eye.

And so, without having much else to say,
I leave you with Vincent, by Tim Burton.




Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week with another inspiring animation short!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Sharing Animation - Neighbours (Norman McLaren, 1952)

It's really weird that I've never talked and shared anything about one of the greatest and most innovators animators of all time! He has so many experiences, so many new looks to animation and so many innovative ways to look at frame by frame images, that I guess I didn't know how to start!

Since I'm thinking in making a very short experience in Pixilation Animation (for those of you who don't know it by the name, you'll see what I mean in the end of the post!) I thought I could share with you the first McLaren short I've seen, and it's in that technique. The 1952 short called Neighbours.

McLaren was one of the big pioneers of the NFB of Canada. There he produced many animations as you can see with a simple google search.

Well, Norman McLaren has many incredible particularities, and in this short he shows some of them. He made animations not only for his country, but to all the world, with messages of peace and understanding among other cultures. Another thing is that he loved to explore not only new techniques but serious contemporaneous issues, and in this animation, made in the middle of the Cold War, clearly shows his thoughts about it.
And yet another thing, one of the most wonderful and crazy (so to speak) things about him, the music in it. McLaren made animations that he actually painted (or scratched) directly in the film instead of photographing it. That alone was quite innovative, but then he started painting his own sounds.
The analog film have a bar by the side of the image frames that corresponds to the sound that is played in the theater. It is represented by waves. What McLaren did was figuring out how to draw especific notes in the right time to correspond it with the actions that were already animated in the film. It's incredible really. Better than explaining it maybe you should see this two youtube videos that explain both the drawing in film and drawing sounds:






After that, here is my actual short sharing, Neighbours by Norman McLaren:



Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week with more inovative and pioneer animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Sharing Animation - Screen Play (Barry Purves, 1992)

Today I was with some freaky excitement about stop motion animation, I was even looking for prices to buy one to try some myself (I added the link of the stop motion site where I found the puppets in the awesome animation link list down below), and so, I figured I should share with you a stop motion puppet animation!

And for that I'll refer to one of the bests (if not the best), one great artist that I've shown here before with the animation short "Next". Barry Purves with another genious animation, Screen Play.

As I sad in the last post it's quite curious how he represent his animations in actual stages, and this one is even more evidently a play, since it has a narrator (voice: Michael Maloney) and a beautiful movable stage. This was another highly awarded animation, and surely a deserving one. You may notice that until the animation reaches more than nine minutes, I doesn't have a single 'cut', it's the same shot for almost the whole short, really like we're in a theater, and astonishing work by the animator.


I guess all I can say is for you to watch! Enjoy it very much! I would love to have a puppet like that to play around!

Screen Play by Barry Purves:




Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week with another exciting animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Sharing Animation - Donald in Mathmagic Land (Luske, Reitherman, Meador and Clarks - Walt Disney Studios, 1959)

Hello there again!

As promised I bring for the sharing a more cheerful animation! A nostalgic one again! I just love this one! It's incredible and funny and... well you got the idea.

Directed by masters like Les Clarks, Joshua Meador, Wolfgang Reitherman and Hamilton Luske (the most animation addicted know where it comes from by now), here it is, Donald in Mathmagic Land, for the magic people at Disney.

Well, about the animation there's not much to say, you all know their work right?
I just love it, so I hope you'll enjoy it!

Supervised by Luske, directed by Les Clarks, Meador and Reitherman, here is Donald in Mathmagic land.



Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week with another amazing animation!


No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Animation is so freaking funny!

Oh big laugh, how are you welcome!

I'll be Laughing Out Loud for a while with this!


Saturday, May 19, 2012

My Animations - Ruínas - A 48h Animation Marathon

As I've posted a few days ago, I participated in a marathon in which I had to create an animation in 48 hours straight along with my other three classmates.

We thought about finishing it (we were given a deadline until 22 of May to finish it if we wanted/could), but we were all very busy with university and other works, that we couldn't manage to complete it.

Also, as I sad in the earlier post, we actually finished all the animation for this very short film, but we had serious unfortunate technical issues with the final editing, but we still had two render that we made out for testing, one with sound and the other a low quality render with the short almost complete but with no sound and still some errors.

So since we're probably not finishing it, I wanted to add this here, because it was a good concept animation and with a good visual. We had a lot of work thinking and creating this animation, and the two hours I got to sleep that weekend certainly paid off (at least in my perspective).

Here it is, created with Leonor Pacheco, Diogo Simões and António Silva, the unfinished 'Ruínas'.


A little bit about the animation:
Our theme was to show how the individual effort can't get the results expected, but only when the whole decides to cooperate and work together, that everything is doable, perceptible and meaningful.
Yes, yes, it's rather a cliché idea, that's why we worked mostly in How to show it in a different manner. We called it an "Avatar" look to it, since the movie Avatar is mostly amazing for it's unique way to tell the same story told so many times before.
In the end it's a minimalist, mosaic designed, way to show how even the human being in its foundations can't work if each part decided to work by itself. If each muscle goes his own way we couldn't even manage to read each other's feelings. It was made based in the today's difficult times of crisis all over the world and those who think that they're fine, while helping only themselves.
Anyway, at the end, the face would give a huge laugh expressing a real feeling that was contained for so long, showing how when it all work together, an expression can be seen and felt and recognized. (the part that so unfortunately gave us trouble when editing.)


The first sound test we rendered:



And the low quality render with the animation almost completed.




It was actually very unfortunate, really, that we couldn't finish it, but still, knowing how much effort, thought and mostly the deep meaning that we were able to put down in this project, I'm very proud of our team.

Sharing Animation - Stairs (Stefan Schabenbeck, 1968)

Hi!
For this week sharing animation I'll be posting a rather unusual animation. The animation itself is very simple actually, simple movements and some changes in the posture; the scenery a little more complex and well designed; but what makes this animation brilliant is it's concept and deep philosophical and existencial issues treated in it.

I think life can't be all good mood flowers and feelings, and sometimes it's good for us to think a little bit about ourselves. That's why I loved this animation and am bringing here to share.

The animation is called Stairs ('Schody' in Polish) by Stefan Schabenbenck.

I don't think there's much I can talk about it, you really have to watch,  but be aware for it is really powerful.

Sit back and enjoy this 'not for kids' piece.




Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week for a more cheerful animation, I promise! =)

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Sharing Animation - História Trágica Com Final Feliz (Regina Pessoa, 2005)

Aos portugueses: Estejam presentes AQUI.

For this week's animation sharing, I bring to you a portuguese animation, as today portuguese people are going to the street manifest against the cut of 100% of the government  funding to portuguese films. It's important to know that most of the films made in Portugal can only survive with the already little funding they get.

As to show everyone how portuguese animations are worth it, here is a highly awarded (the most awarded portuguese animation of all times) and beautifully made, by Regina Pessoa, Tragic Story With Happy Ending.

It's quite interesting to talk about a portuguese animation, I mean, Regina studied in the tween university I'm studing right now, and my animation professor probably knows her (if the animation industry worldwide is small, in Portugal is like an old neighbourhood, everyone knows everyone).

To make this animation, just like all other animations, a lot of hard work had to be done. But if you think that every frame is a printmaking, you may guess how much work this one took. And it's great!

HERE you have some more info about the animations and it's awards (Prémios = awards).

I guess all I can say is, if you're portuguese, be proud of what we have and don't let it die, and if you're not, enjoy another great animation, this one from Portugal!

HERE is the english version, with better quality.




Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you soon with another Portuguese animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Monday, May 7, 2012

Animarun - 48h animation marathon!


This weekend I participated in a marathon in which me and my lovely group of three other animation students had to create an animation film in 48 hours straight!

It was a great experience although unfortunately our group couldn't manage to deliver it on time, maybe because we tried to make an animation with too much quality for the time we had, among other technical issues and complications.

But it was certainly almost completed, actually only editing and sound editing and render was lacking, all the animation was done, or so we thought. Because for some freak saving problems, we ended up with the final part of our animation, that took like 6 massive hours to make, completely messed up.

Anyway, the thing is that me and my group have the intention to finish it in the next 2 weeks, so it will screen in animation festivals and be presented by the school that hosted the contest. So with some work, very soon I'll be posting it in the blog!

For the two hours that I slept in the ground, I think I'll be very proud to show it.

Another animation experience! Many more to come!
weeeehooooyeyhey! =)


Monday, April 30, 2012

Sharing Animation - Creature Comforts (Aardman Animation - Nick Park, 1989)

Hello again!
Since today I'm feeling humorous, I'm bringing to you a very fun animation. After the original animation was released a television advertisement and a whole two season series were made in the same line, such was the success. The studio itself is today a very well recognized animation studio that brings to us the most of the mosts, when it comes to stop motion animation.

The studio is of course Aardman Animation and the animation is Creature Comforts by Nick Park.

The thing about this animation is that the voices are all recorded from the British public. It's a thrill to watch how a simple interview is interpreted and actually twisted to fit as the animals speaking. Every single shot is embebed with creativity and imagination.

HERE you go to the official Aardman website (there's a teaser of their last feature film The Pirates - Band of misfits).

Nick Park is only the creator behind Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. No wonder this animation is so cool!

So here you go, the original animation short, Creature Comforts by Nick Park and Aardman Animation.




Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week for another inspiring animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Animation Mentor here I come!

Since I want this blog also to be a record of my growth in animation, I have an announcement. This past friday, April 20th, I received an e-mail from animationmentor.com saying that I was accepted in their Character Animation Program! I've been dreaming on entering AM for more or less two years now, and now I'm one step closer to be the animator I dream to be.

So... WOHOOOOOOOO! =D

Very few times in my life I felt so excited! I'm starting the classes in september, so I still have a few months ahead of me, and still have to finish university. But I just can't stop thinking about it!

Cheers!


Sharing Animation - At the Ends of the Earth (Konstantin Bronzit, 1999)

Sometimes there are animations that has such small details, such great personality in so many great ways, that they just make us feel good when we're watching them.

Today I'll add another wonderful comic short to this sharing list. It's another animations that has inspired me in some level sometime ago, so I guess it makes it perfect to share!

Au Bout du Monde, or At the Ends of the Earth, by Konstantin Bronzit is a very nice short animation.

I couldn't find much info about Bronzit in the internet, but he's an highly awarded animator/director. Annecy is just one prize he earned. Twice. And he has been around the animation world since 1988, with his first animation The Round-about.

So with no more delay, here it is, At the Ends of the Earth, by Konstantin Bronzit.



Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you soon with another cool animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

How beautiful is animation!

A few days ago, I saw someone sharing these videos that I found completely utterly incredibly amazing! Each day that goes by I found myself more in love with this art. Animation is so awesome!!

Watching these videos is just a HUGE inspiration for everyone out there aspiring to be animators, I'm quite sure. This is just pure, good quality tradicional animation, being done right in front of your eyes.

The artist is Glen Keane, one of the Walt Disney Studios masters, that resigned his animator job just a few weeks ago. According to Animation Magazine post about his resignation, there was a letter in which he said:
"I am convinced that animation really is the ultimate form of our time with endless new territories to explore. I can’t resist its siren call to step out and discover them."

So for me, this resignation is not completly sad, because I guess we can expect great author animated films from this amazing artist. I felt like he was leaving Disney in a quest of his own. So I bow to that and wish him good luck in his discoveries!

HERE's a little blog of Glen Keane art. Made by Raúl Andrés, character animator.

Here you have a little scene animated, live! (In 3 parts)







Just beautiful.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Sharing Animation - 12 Drawings a Day - an animated diary (Denis Chapon, 2011))

Today I come share with you a very interesting project. So this guy, Denis Chapon had this idea of creating an short animation making 12 drawings each day. Without major narrative concerns, sound concerns (I'm quite sure with a loose project like this he added the sound later just to give some more life to it) or even much of presentation concerns, he just kept drawing 12 drawings, every day, for three years!

For me there are so many aspects of this project that are so captivating. It's quite an inspiring project, for me mostly because of it's "straight forwardness"! And the fact that he uses a non-erasable pen in every drawing really shows his superb drawings skills! And the reutilization of used paper just gives an even more sketchy aura to the whole thing!
I love to watch what was printed firstly in those papers, poping every different drawing, almost as an animation ifself! I also love the very well done animation, the appealing drawings and the drawings dates written in the lower right corner of every paper, also changing, now at every 12 drawings.

If my purpose for these sharings are inspiring all of you who enjoy watching them, this is certainly one inspiring piece of art!

So enjoy 12 Drawings a Day - an animated diary, by Denis Chapon.



Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week with another inspiring animation project!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Sharing Animation - Repete (Michaela Pavlátová, 1995)

For the actual sharing of the week, this week I come to you with a high recommended animation. At least in my fine-art/animation studies it was!

This is an animation that also explores the simplicity of drawing in advantage of the powerful narrative. And it really has a powerful story telling. It's funny, because I've hear so many professor talking about this animation, and I've watched so many times that now I have a complete black out and don't have much to talk about it! =P

Anyways, the animation is Repete by the Czech author Michaela Pavlátová.

This one talks a lot about our lives, and has a great amount of thought in it. It's one of those pieces that makes you think about your own life.

HERE you can find Pavlátová official website.

I feel the words are stuck inside me today, I'll stop with the worthless speach and give you the animation already!

So enjoy this great animation, Repete by Michaela Pavlátová!




Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week for another inspirational animation!


No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Sharing Animation - Pedro (Hamilton Luske - Walt Disney Studios, 1943)

This week I'm finally trying to get back on schedule again! So to do so, I'm choosing an animation not very much for it's technique, that most of people agree that is exquisite, but for the purpose of inspiration only! After all, I am sharing these animations as a source of inspiration and entertainment!

This is one of those animated shorts that many of us watched as a child, maybe sometimes didn't even know very well the meaning of it, and certainly not the work behind it, but we were thrilled anyway! I remenber watching and loving this short, and still now, not only for the nostalgia but also for the great quality of storytelling and animation, I love to watch it! Pedro, Mama Plane and Papa Plane! Just love it.

The animation I bring today is Pedro from Walt Disney Studios, directed by Hamilton Luske. Animated by Luske himself, John Meador, Fred Moore, Bill Tytla and Ward Kimball (for those who knows or are interested in animation history and WDS history, there are some great, huge master names in that animators list!).

You can look out for more about this short in the cool website The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts.

But as for me, I leave you with Pedro, by Hamilton Luske.




Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week (maybe this week!) with another greatly inspirational animation!


No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Monday, April 2, 2012

My Animations - The Moral of the Story

This semester in university I managed to get into a project that will make me animate in 3D (my ultimate goal), as a sort of a training! So, basically what I proposed to do is animate every month until the end of the semester to the 11secondclub contest! And I made my first line animation last month, March competition.

Now, I know my animation doesn't deserve to win the competition, far from it I'm aware. But I was really glad with the result mainly because it was my first 3D animation on my own! I tried to take everything I've read and watched about (and the time I had) into action and make my own animation.

I had some difficulties. Technical issues. First of all a problem with the rig (the doll, so to speak), because I wanted the hand to stay still in his leg, but every time I moved a shoulder, chest, etc the damn hand would leave the place I wanted it to be. But it made me learn about IK and FK (just some 3D animation talk, if you don't know what that is and you're not really an animator or want to learn, don't mind those) Thanks for Vedanth Rajan for that! A very helpful www.animationmentor.com student that I've met.
Then I didn't add much of a scenary, but I wasn't too worried about that, trying to focus completely in the animation itself. Finally, after I submited my animation to 11secondclub site, and watched all of the entries (390 entries this month) I figured my acting choices were very... well... cliche! So I'll try harder to make something more original next month.

So here it is, my latest work!

Friday, March 30, 2012

Sharing Animation - Sisyphus (Marcell Jankovics, 1974)

For this week (or last week, I'm still one week behind =P) sharing animation I'll post some art.

I'm a true lover of the fluid, detailed, precise animation, such as well done traditional animation and 3D animation. But another part of animation that I love is mainly notable in tradicional animation, for obvious artistic freedom reasons, and are the metamorphosis (have I done this speech before? I feel I have...).

So this week I come to you with a very short short, that has an incredible development throughout the narrative, as the original sisyphus myth also have (For the curious, Wikipedia: The Myth of Sisyphus) and the metamorphosis develops aswell, in my opinion, in a very charming way. The short received an Oscar nomination.

The artist is Marcell Jankovics and the animation is called, as you might have guessed, Sisyphus. You can google the artist to know more about him since he doesn't have any official website.

It's very simple but yet very powerful.

So please enjoy, Sisyphus by Marcell Jankovics.





Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week for another powerful artnimation!


No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Sharing Animation - The Monk and The Fish (Michael Dudok De Wit, 1994)

Do you remember my second post in this sharing animations? If you haven't seen it yet, you can look for it in the Sharing Animation Tab (where you can find a list of all the animations I've shared so far) or you can go to the Sharing Animation Label (where you can see all the posts I've shared with inspirational animation till date)!

So this week I'm here with another Michael Dudok De Wit animation called The Monk and the Fish (Le Moine et le poisson), a 1994 awarded animation!

This beautiful animation won the first Cartoon d'Or award for Dudok De Wit, and also won the Cesar (an important French award) and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.

The music wonderfully achieved by Serge Besset really gives the right mood to it!

Here you go, another masterpiece from this genius in his art!





Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week for another amazing piece of animation!


No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Sharing Animation - Seiltänzer (Raimund Krumme, 1986)

I'm so late!

My life with university and all is very busy, so I've been skipping the weekly animations, and I feel that's just wrong.

So for this half week late animation sharing I come to you with a very "simple" project, but yet full of life. The name is Seiltanzer by the award-winning German director, Raimund Krumme. It was his first original animation, in 1986.

The simple lines and design are very caracteristic of Krumme. Also the way he play with the lines and with metamorphosis can be widely seen in his work.

I tried but I couldn't manage to find an official website for the artist, but HERE and HERE you can see some info about him in the AWN website, and HERE you can see some more info in the ACME filmworks website.

I personally love when animation keeps surprising us in terms of material and space relation of the objects. In this piece, a simple hand-drawn square can be a lot of different things!

Nothing better than you watch it! Enjoy, Seiltanzer by Raimund Krumme.




Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week (erm... I mean, this week!) for another impressive and surprising animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Sharing Animation - Ring of Fire (Andreas Hykade, 2000)

For this week Sharing Animation I come to you with an short animation with a very particular graphism. In fact, the artist himself has a very particular style.

Andreas Hykade is a well recognised animator who created quite a few awarded animations. And the one I'm going to share today (surely there will be more in the future)  is Ring of Fire, released in 2000.

This short has a complex mood, with it's color or lack of it, the voiceover, the story. It all come together greatly as a unified whole.

It was animated by Andreas Hykade himself, along with Ged Haney and Anita Ortega. The short was made in Coprodution with Studio FILM BILDER.

In spite of the crude images, the short has a very well thought meaning and story, and the whole animation is a thrill to watch.

HERE you can find Andreas Hykade's official website, where you can find his biography and the info about some other productions he has been part of.

Enjoy this awesome animation, Ring of Fire by Andreas Hykade.




Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week for another animation!


No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Sharing Animation - Day & Night (Teddy Newton - Pixar Animation Studios, 2010)


Last week I couldn't find the time to come here and post the sharing animation post. So I figured I could share a recent and very well known animation that is a hell of a good one!

So just quickly sharing the incredible 2010 Pixar short Day & Night, directed by Teddy Newton.

The mix of tradicional animation with CG for me is one of the best things about this short, because it really shows how animation is, in fact, what this is all about. It doesn't matter what technique we're dealing with, the important thing is that you know how to animate so you can make an incredible film!

I just think this should be in this sharing collection. A big congrats for the Pixar team!






Here's a video from Pixar talking a little bit about the short!
Enjoy!





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No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Sharing Animation - Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones - Warner Bros. Cartoons, 1953)


Hello Again!

For this week's animation sharing I'll be adding a very well known cartoon to the list! Until now I've been sharing animations that are mostly author's works, but today I come with a big studio cartoon that is very cool for the animation studies and research!

The animations is the 1953 Duck Amuck, directed by Chuck Jones, written by Michael Maltese, voiced by Mel Blanc and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.

This is so special because it's an animation that talks about animation itself. There's nothing like the creators wanting to show the rest of the world how a cartoon, and such a distinctive personality from a cartoon character, are made. It's very cool to distinguish the different types of artists and professionals that an animated film requires. And Chuck Jones did that wonderfully in this animation.

HERE you can find it's IMDB page. HERE the WB's offical web site and HERE the WB cartoon collection's web page.

It's a very entertaining and joyful piece, so enjoy!




Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week for another awesome animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Sharing Animation - David (Paul Driessen, 1977)


This week I'm presenting yet a different artist than the ones before. And also a very different animation itself.

When you see the drawing made by Paul Driessen you may thing that they are rough and not solid at all. You can see that he may have difficulties in his drawing. But the great thing about this artist is that he takes that rough drawing as granted and explores it to make his own style!

Paul Driessen has indeed his very own style that many have also explored. His simplicity is compensated with his story telling, composition of the whole film and even his remarkable and unique animation.

The 1977 animation David was the first Driessen animation I've seen, and it amazed me by it's simplicity in animation that, as you'll see, there isn't much. But still it's a short film worth watching. It's a wonderful film for and about little people.

HERE you can see Driessen's official website.

So enjoy this very amusing piece, David by Paul Driessen:




"Isn't it horrible, my boy? How easily big creatures spoil the lives of the small?... Crunch!"

Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week for another great animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Sharing Animation - Every Child (Eugene Fedorenko, 1980)

Once again a National Film Board of Canada short film. An awarded one aswell. This fantastic short won the academy award for best animated short.

This is Every Child by Eugene Fedorenko.

I think the greatest thing about this animation is the soundtrack. The animation itself is humorous and well thought and done, but the sound design is done in such a way that's just delightful to watch and hear the whole thing. Just because all the sounds are done with voice by Les Mimes Eléctriques, a pair of voice masters! They are the two men that appear in the beggining and end of the short. You can google them.

This is to celebrate the Unicef's Declaration of Children's Rights. And so it has a astonishing theme behind it.

The animation has influenced my work no only because of the trembling lines that goes along the whole animation, but also, of course, because of the sound design, which I want to use the same style in an animation of my own.

So here it is, without further ado, this very funny short animation I want to share this week, by Eugene Fedorenko:




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See you next week for another engaging animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Sharing Animation - Mindscape (Jacques Drouin, 1976)


This week I'm coming to you with an animation that when I first saw it, when I understood what I was watching, it completely blew my mind!

The name of the animation is Le Paysagiste (Mindscape, the english name) by Jacques Drouin.

I tried for a while to look for videos that talk about this unbelievable animation technique, so before you see this animation you could actually see the process, but I couldn't find any proper video. You can scroll along this video HERE, where Drouin himself is talking (in french) and he has a pinscreen behind him and he sometimes shows something in it. I've watched a wonderful one that I just couldn't find.

Taken from the wikipedia, I found it quite right: "A pinscreen is a white screen that consists of thousands and thousands of pins in small holes. Light shines from the side of this platform causing each and every single pin to cast its own shadow. Each pin, being able to slide easily back and forth through the holes, can cast different shadows. The white screen becomes darker the farther the pins are pushed out. The more the pins are pushed in, the lighter the screen becomes, giving a grayish tone and eventually an all white screen again."

It's really a macro sized thing that can have the whole grey, black and white scale almost perfectly. The pins are so small that you almost can't see them, you just see the gradient.

So as for animation: imagine you push a group of pins until that part of the screen is white, you take a picture and then you have to go to the back of the screen push those pins out again so you can have the white area in a different place, to have the movement when you take a picture again.

Maybe you can imagine that it's a pretty difficult technique! And so this beautiful work I bring to you today it's even more spectacular.
The technique is amazing enough but Drouin managed to make a real master piece out of it!

The best video I found was in the very National Film Board of Canada website, watch it in High Quality, wait it to load, it's totaly worth it. Although the standard is quite watchable it High Quality takes too long.
So here it is, Mindscape by Jacques Drouin.




Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!


See you next week with another incredible animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

My Animations - Five


Here is another project I've been working on.

This is a 20 seconds part of a whole 5 minutes animation project (the biggest I've ever written so far). This semester in university we had to write, storyboard, test, change, test, change again, etc, and make 20 seconds of one big animation. It's a pity that during the semester I don't actually have to finish all the projects I start, since here we were learning to create, produce, direct, and all the rest, a whole short, and one semester is not enough time to finish it.
I see that this is good for learning, but the truth is that I end up with a bunch of unfinished works. When we are done starting and developing it through it's first steps, we already have another project to do, so we kinda have to let the last one as it is. But who knows, right? Maybe in the future, if I manage to make the time, I'll finish it!

This was done in tradicional animation, digitally painted in photoshop. The background has a paper texture. It has an intended rigid and trembled animation style, not at all like Disney's animations.

In very short, the story is about the greed for power and recognition among a society. The five characters, the society, all start as equals, but by various reasons and motivations their importance in the group vary and a hierarchy of recognition is created. With hierarchy comes social difference and more power to some means less power to others. In the end it's a game of power and greed among them, the society that quickly forgets that they were all equals.

This 20 second part (really the introduction and the beginning of the whole thing) shows how the first one emerge just by having the initiative to find food. He would start eating it and the others, showing hunger, would respect him and allow him to be their leader in exchange for food. Since it's an important factor for life the others will respect him for being the provider. So he'll be the first one to grow in the eyes of the society, and in the animation he would physically grow.

Ow, and the name was not quite chosen yet. Five because there's five of them! =P


Sharing Animation - Next (Barry Purves, 1989)

For this (late) week animation sharing I bow to a very very good master stop-motion puppets animator. He has some other incredible works and I'll definetely talk more about him in the future.

But today I come with the one called Next, from the respectable master animator, Barry Purves.

Next was the first animation written and directed (aswell as animated) by Purves, released in 1989. After many years animating for others, he engaged himself in this very ambicious project and I call it ambicious because he chose to represent the "Complete Works" (37 stories) of William Shakespeare in an empty stage, exploring, in his words, body language, taking the puppet to it's limit.

It's amazing to watch how Purves makes many of his animations as actual theater's plays. His use of the stage as the only scenary and the front camera really makes us, viewers, feel as in a theater. But animations are real plays, they are all carefully staged and rehearsed, and we actually are viewers sitting down and watching it. He just makes the connection between animation and real acting even more obvious. No wonder he works in real plays aswell.

Click HERE to access his official website.

His latest animation is called Tchaikovsky. I'm certainly dying to watch it. HERE and HERE you can watch a teaser and the trailer.

So here it is, Next by Barry Purves:




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See you next week for another incredible play!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Sharing Animation - The Old Man And The Sea (Alexander Petrov, 1999)


For this week's Sharing Animation piece, I brought to you one that has amazed me since I first glanced it. So I'll start by saying that it is amazing!

This was done in one of the most difficult types of animation of all, paint on glass. In my oppinion it's such a hard craft that few can actually make it look good. And this incredible painter, this incredible artist, certainly made it.

As some of you may have already guessed, the animation is The Old Man and the Sea, by the, once more, incredible russian Alexander Petrov.

Now there isn't much to say, just watch. The story is beautiful and the graphism even more beautiful. It took two and a half years of tireless work to complete, and looking at the awards that it picked up, it was worth it. Besides the Academy Award Best Animated Short Film Oscar, The Old Man and The Sea won several other awards.

HERE you can find a video where Petrov talks a little bit about this animation and it's dubbed in english. HERE (part 1) and HERE (part 2) you can find another two videos where Petrov is talking about his work flow. It's in russian, so I couldn't understand a word! =) But it's still pretty cool to watch how Petrov makes some frames of the movie (more or less at the end of part 1 and the beginning of part 2), his drawings for the storyboard and some reference images he took for Old man and the sea.

So here is the master piece (in English), please enjoy:




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See you next week for one more incredible inspirational animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Friday, January 6, 2012

My Animations - Rotoscope


This week I made a Rotoscopy animation exercise! It took me about 16 hours to make this 29 second, and was completely made in Flash.

It was actually my first try rotoscoping, and I'm quite pleased with the result. I wanted to make a sort of cinema history, so I started with some classic shots of some old films. A thought is to continue this project and add more classic films that I've watched to this animation.

I wanted it a black and white rotoscopy, somewhat like a sketch book, adding some color in details (the tongue and the dancing bread).

The movies added are 1902 - A Trip to The Moon and 1925 - The Gold Rush

After a while I thought it would be nice to add some detail to it, so I thought adding the smoke texture as I've done in my Music Abstraction animation.

One thing I can say, I definitely rather do "real" animation than rotoscoping! =)


Thursday, January 5, 2012

Sharing Animation - Manipulation (Daniel Greaves, 1991)

I always loved animations that not only tells a narrative but also talks about animation itself. Animations that really show the process, the making of, the material, the essence of animation and present it in a way that it seems we're looking at the animator doing his job!

And on top of all that, what makes the "Illusion of life", persued by all animations, more real then having the life form creation interacting with his creator, the animator? There are tons of animations interacting with his creator, but this one is certainly one of the bests, if only for winning the 1992 Oscar for the best animated short.

The british author, name: Daniel Greaves, and his award winner piece, name: Manipulation.

Here it is, the very amusing animation:



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See you next week for yet another awesome piece of animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Animag 2011 Funny Animation Retrospective

Animation Magazine made a funny 2011 kind of Comic Book page with some of the animations that impressed during last year. I thought it was really cool to share with everyone! Of course, credit: Animag!!




Awesome stuff!!