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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!