Friday, 29 March 2013
cool animations
Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.
mi-piaci-web from EFFELLEPHOTOGRAPHY on Vimeo.
Garanti from RACECAR on Vimeo.
Friday, 22 March 2013
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
The History Of Animation Part 5 - Aardman
Aardman began with Dave Sproxton and Peter, they met as childhood school friends, both mothers taught art and both fathers worked in the BBC. Pete and Dave became good friends, Dave was always interested in process. One day they just decided to play with cut out animation on the kitchen table, this was shot with absolutely no construction. But they laughed our socks off and loved it but there were also political udnertones. They pair were gratley inspired by the TV show Vision On broadcasted by the BBC, and after Daves father showed the BBC what his son was doing, they were given music and said do whatever you like to it. They found it great fun.
These animations raised the game at Aardman and so A Grand Day Out was realsed, an endearing real British animation. The wrong trousers and a close shave. you can see how the sophistication grew. In the train sequence, timing was flawless. Animation was becoming smoother and smoother.
They then left surrey and went to Bristol, came up with a charcter that was a complete idiot. Aard man. the producer throuht it was great and the bbc baught it. Then got a check and had to open a bank account, so they called it Aardman. We wanted to do somthing that was fun all the way through, we started playing around with clay work. Gleebies 1975. this was broadcasted. the ancestors to morph. They were lucky to get that brake.
Take Hart 1977 asked can you come up with a chracter to mess up a desk. and it worked really well. They brought in Chaz, then we got the idea to make a series out of them both. They made a series of the amazing adventures of morph. which was pretty amazing at the time. Aardman built a set downstairs from a georgian house. blu peter came to film them in the studio and how they worked and made a film. In 1981 they were aiming to shoot one episiode in 18 days.
Animted comercials were popular but you were learning on your own. it was a very small industry and were desperately looking for how do we learn this stuff. It wasn't taught in school. Aardman still do a lot of work in animations, and in one way it really does hold the business together
Animted comercials were popular but you were learning on your own. it was a very small industry and were desperately looking for how do we learn this stuff. It wasn't taught in school. Aardman still do a lot of work in animations, and in one way it really does hold the business together
Then they came up with the idea of recording real voices and real situations and trying to do little films for them. Down and out was made in 1978 and found that was a really lovley way to work. with a real audio. Chanel 4 put money into an animation festival, as Channel 4 was just starting and they were aiming for minorities. Suddenly all these animtors came out of the wood work, they used these 5 films in the transmission of the festival.
This is a fantastic piece of animation, properly one of my favourite pieces by Aardman. It's so raw, the audio is completely untouched and the clay animation has a really dark way it's sculptured. Early bird 1983- we did a second series with live recordings. They found its hard to made stuff to people say spontaneously.
This is a fantastic piece of animation, properly one of my favourite pieces by Aardman. It's so raw, the audio is completely untouched and the clay animation has a really dark way it's sculptured. Early bird 1983- we did a second series with live recordings. They found its hard to made stuff to people say spontaneously.
Aardman has met Nick Park by that time, he was very naturally gifted. We helped him with the story boared. Aaedman helped to make a film babylon 1986 about nuclear holocaust.
Nick was very intrested in animals and he selected to do creature comforts. By this time Aardman had model makers and helped nick through it. In 1989 Nick didn't use video play back. it allways flowed out, it was magic it went together. Aardman created a completly different approach to what you can do with animation. Mixing children and adult viewers together.
Aardman had advertising agencies asking them to do adverts. They thought to just take the money and get some more equipment and carry out with short films. But it's something the business realies on still today today. In late 60s when television really began to build. They wanted high production value, they learnt so much and bring more model makers, designers and model men and built so many skills from it.
These animations raised the game at Aardman and so A Grand Day Out was realsed, an endearing real British animation. The wrong trousers and a close shave. you can see how the sophistication grew. In the train sequence, timing was flawless. Animation was becoming smoother and smoother.
Chicken run 2000 for nick was a realese of some nutty ness. A good 5 years in the making but by that time they learnt an awful lot on scale, management and writing. The legistics on how to bring this thing to life. Output per animator, how to keep the animators busy, keep them focus on the character when they are working on 3-4 seconds. Having 2 directors they could split the workload, which really helped. Remember why they were doing the scene and make sure the blueprint they put down works. Its good for the actors to see what they are voicing to get into that characecture mode.
Nick came back to wallace and gromit and bring more characters. Instead of a weerewolf it was going to be a rabbit. They locked themselves for 2 years in a victorian shed and had to really concentrate. 24 thousand story bord pictures. Every scene was re written 3 or 4 times. Writting is re writting and re writting only 4 thosand only got on the blueprint. It takes a long time, pixar takes 3-5 years and proberly 3 and a half of those years is in the creatiuve writting and design side. and maybe developing as you go on. It feels like an endless task is ahead of you, they didn't want star names just for the sake of star names we wanted them because they were the right voice. Giving a cinematic quialtiy with light control and depth of field in a small set of a few inches was a challenge and in creating a set you've got more control.
Flushed away 2006. It was an idea that came out of Pete's head. A posh character falls out if his perfect life to find out about reality. They realised it would be a massive thing to do it all in stop motion. So they have a CGI plan available, plugged into their pipe lines. They learnt so much with how the departments work in CGI. its incredibly powerfull tool. Aardman have since made a lot with it.
One of my favorite TV ad's by Aardman are the Serta commercials, the idea that the mattress are so comfortable you don't need to employ counting sheep. Advertising is masive in America, Aardman have worked for Hershys, dont stuff for Jpan, Spain and Swindon. Work needs to be produced a lot faster now, more boundaries are being pushed.
One of my favorite TV ad's by Aardman are the Serta commercials, the idea that the mattress are so comfortable you don't need to employ counting sheep. Advertising is masive in America, Aardman have worked for Hershys, dont stuff for Jpan, Spain and Swindon. Work needs to be produced a lot faster now, more boundaries are being pushed.
BBC the three blobs 2004 was another one of my favorites. Quirky and funny at the same time.
Aardman have also done change your life 2008 a campaign for the government.
Dave Sproxton says "we are allways trying to come up with ideas, allways chucking things away to keep coming up with the best. keep trying and exploring different media. Now all our departments are in the same building, so its often that we interact with each other. it's very livley it's great. it reminds other people that how many people are in the company but we all link together and thats great"
Monday, 18 March 2013
In the beginging
Starting to make my animation and my eyes started to hurt due to the colours, i thought I wanted to create a really bold animation but the colours I thought were too strenuous to look at and that wasn't fitting to the music so I started to experiment
The History Of Animation Part 4 - Stop Motion models
Stop motion is intensive process the body is moved in very small increments. absolute concentration, normally means animating for hours on end without brakes.
1909 princess nicotine was made thus inspiraing minds into the field of stop motion
Willis O'brain made is first film in 1915 called he dinosaur and the missing link, he was one of the pioneers of stop motion animation. He made somthing spectacular. He astounded audiences. His animation was made with puppets and steel frames inside them to create joints. In1930 O'brian began to work on CREATION which braught together live action and spot motion, he used this for he rest of his ceer using this system of layers of different media, for exaple the back layer would have live action projected onto it and then a layer of a still 2D dimension and then the puppet in the foreground. O'brain designed Kong's 18 inch steel skeleton, he was known for his precised animation that infused king kong with charcter. His greatest stregnths was attention to detail. It took O'brain over a year to animate King Kong, it broke box office records and inspired a new generation of artist. His hard work paid off.
Ray Harryhausen found out about the glories of animation after watching King Kong. A young harryhousen made the cavebear, and made several short dinosuar films. After meet Obrain his idol, O'brain asked him to work with him on a sequel to King Kong called All Mighty Joe in1946 they worked on the film for almost 2 years.This fram had 150 moving parts on the steel frram and they spent spent many days studying gorrila behaviour. Although never equalling King Kong in popularity, many people see it as superior. Might joe young was just the begnning.
Jason and his argonaughts, Harryhausen animated 7 skeletons and was only able to make 13 frames a day taking 4 and a half months to do the scene. Today ray Harrygausen is reconised as a grand master of stop motion animation. He packed theaters, and the his basic process is still practiced in much the same way. Computers are now used to make reference points and to ensure smooth movement within the character.
Phill tippit designs heros and villans for popular hollywood films. He fell in love with the surreality with the objects moveing themselves. Tippit was put in charge for the stop motion in the Empire Strikes Back. His first project was to design the snowy machine walkers. The snow was created by baking soda. "we made little trap doors underneath each walker so every time we mad a fram we would pop our heads from the trap door nearest to the specific machine move it very slightly and then close the door" The tom toms we made with motion blur. dragon slayer was completly made this way, this process began the idea of refining the movment, getting it perfect. Tippit was dinosuar supervisor on jurassic park.
Whatever tool you use your learning how to work with limitations, trying to keep all this stuff move towards your minds eye.
Willis O'brain made is first film in 1915 called he dinosaur and the missing link, he was one of the pioneers of stop motion animation. He made somthing spectacular. He astounded audiences. His animation was made with puppets and steel frames inside them to create joints. In1930 O'brian began to work on CREATION which braught together live action and spot motion, he used this for he rest of his ceer using this system of layers of different media, for exaple the back layer would have live action projected onto it and then a layer of a still 2D dimension and then the puppet in the foreground. O'brain designed Kong's 18 inch steel skeleton, he was known for his precised animation that infused king kong with charcter. His greatest stregnths was attention to detail. It took O'brain over a year to animate King Kong, it broke box office records and inspired a new generation of artist. His hard work paid off.
Ray Harryhausen found out about the glories of animation after watching King Kong. A young harryhousen made the cavebear, and made several short dinosuar films. After meet Obrain his idol, O'brain asked him to work with him on a sequel to King Kong called All Mighty Joe in1946 they worked on the film for almost 2 years.This fram had 150 moving parts on the steel frram and they spent spent many days studying gorrila behaviour. Although never equalling King Kong in popularity, many people see it as superior. Might joe young was just the begnning.
Jason and his argonaughts, Harryhausen animated 7 skeletons and was only able to make 13 frames a day taking 4 and a half months to do the scene. Today ray Harrygausen is reconised as a grand master of stop motion animation. He packed theaters, and the his basic process is still practiced in much the same way. Computers are now used to make reference points and to ensure smooth movement within the character.
Phill tippit designs heros and villans for popular hollywood films. He fell in love with the surreality with the objects moveing themselves. Tippit was put in charge for the stop motion in the Empire Strikes Back. His first project was to design the snowy machine walkers. The snow was created by baking soda. "we made little trap doors underneath each walker so every time we mad a fram we would pop our heads from the trap door nearest to the specific machine move it very slightly and then close the door" The tom toms we made with motion blur. dragon slayer was completly made this way, this process began the idea of refining the movment, getting it perfect. Tippit was dinosuar supervisor on jurassic park.
Whatever tool you use your learning how to work with limitations, trying to keep all this stuff move towards your minds eye.
Sunday, 17 March 2013
Animation Techniques Introduction Part 2 - Stop Motion
Another way to make an image seem like it's moving, is by Stop Animation. This is a technique made by taking photo's, then using movement of the object in each photo, to make it seem like it's moving. A long process but very effective.
Clay Animation
Or Claymation (which is a trademarked name) also known as Plastacine Animation, Wallace and Gromit, the creators of Morph and Chicken Run are the most well known names using this technique. This technique creates a real child friendly effect, and opens up wide moevements within the models used. I love the opening to this and the song really takes me back.
Cut Out Animation
Made by moving two pieces of material that are two dimensional made by Terry Gillian in Monty Python. There have been many different ways this technique has been used, but I'ts Jerry Time has to be one of my favorites, the wiredness in the cut out is amazing, not only is it well written and easy to realte to but the quirky cut out technique is really honest. Watch the first episiode here:
Silhoutte animation
Not very mainstream technique of animtion but still quite widley used. The use of Silhouttes really plays with the different between an image and a shadow and explores depth between darkness. A darker way to animate I believe, but if done well is extrondonarily effective, and I love dark and creepy animation. Lets take a look at The Moon Bird Trailer for a fifteen minute film about an Orphan who discovers magic. Using the perfect technique of animation for the story.
Model Animation
Models that are captured in Stop motion in a real life environment. Bill and Ben were a good example of this and many more. David Allen a model animator used it in Honey I Shrunk The Kids, heres a clip of it:
Object Animation
Using easily idedified objects such as lego, playmobile. Robot Chicken is a good example for this as is this elabrote lego animation. Brilliant timing with the music and nice 80s feel.
Graphic Animation
The simplest way is just by panning the camera around an image. Graphic Animation is non drawn flat visual graphic material. This is an Oscar award winning film by Frank Mouris 1973.
Puppet Stop Motion
Includes using puppets in a constructed enviroment, they have obvious atchements to their joins to contrain movement. The is the method Tim Burton used for films such as The Nightmere Before Christmas and Coroline. Tv series Robot Chicken also use this method.
Clay Animation
Or Claymation (which is a trademarked name) also known as Plastacine Animation, Wallace and Gromit, the creators of Morph and Chicken Run are the most well known names using this technique. This technique creates a real child friendly effect, and opens up wide moevements within the models used. I love the opening to this and the song really takes me back.
Cut Out Animation
Made by moving two pieces of material that are two dimensional made by Terry Gillian in Monty Python. There have been many different ways this technique has been used, but I'ts Jerry Time has to be one of my favorites, the wiredness in the cut out is amazing, not only is it well written and easy to realte to but the quirky cut out technique is really honest. Watch the first episiode here:
Silhoutte animation
Not very mainstream technique of animtion but still quite widley used. The use of Silhouttes really plays with the different between an image and a shadow and explores depth between darkness. A darker way to animate I believe, but if done well is extrondonarily effective, and I love dark and creepy animation. Lets take a look at The Moon Bird Trailer for a fifteen minute film about an Orphan who discovers magic. Using the perfect technique of animation for the story.
Model Animation
Models that are captured in Stop motion in a real life environment. Bill and Ben were a good example of this and many more. David Allen a model animator used it in Honey I Shrunk The Kids, heres a clip of it:
Object Animation
Using easily idedified objects such as lego, playmobile. Robot Chicken is a good example for this as is this elabrote lego animation. Brilliant timing with the music and nice 80s feel.
Graphic Animation
The simplest way is just by panning the camera around an image. Graphic Animation is non drawn flat visual graphic material. This is an Oscar award winning film by Frank Mouris 1973.
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