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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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 - 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.

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.