Ted - Seth Macfarlane’s first feature film coming July 13th 2012
looks hilarious! Bad ass teddy bear going about his daily business with his childhood buddy, Mark Wahlberg. Must see…
The Room - Christian Jason Smith
Im not overly keen on this as an animation, but because i been playing with the idea of a guy trapped in a room that has its on will, its got the same kind of concept but helps with what i shouldnt do with mine.
Reach - by Luke Randall
A tiny robot is given the gift of life with only one limitation, the length of his power cable. When a curious bird appears at the workshop window, the robot feels a lust to live outside of his reach that may be his demise.
Again a nice simple idea made really well, it does make it very obvious in whats going to happen but i like that fact about it, quite straight forward.
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Howl - By Natalie Bettleheim and Sharon Michaeli
A really nicely made short about a mother and her feral child. Very simple design and setup, works really well.
(Source: projecthowl.blogspot.com)
Zero, directed by Christopher Kezelos and produced by Christine Kezelos
Born into a world of numbers, an oppressed zero discovers that through determination, courage and love, nothing can truly be something.
An amazing stop-motion animation short film, because im in the process of working on my own short film its very helpful research, even though im not going for something this long, i just like the concept. Very nice.
(Source: zeroshortfilm.com)
The German - Nick Ryan (director)
Another amazing short i found for reference to my end of year film. Very simple, not much speech but i think the point he is trying to make is dealt very nicely.
A British fighter pilot pursues the german ace that shot down his friend across sky and country… with murder in mind. But he discovers it’s not so easy to kill a man when you have to look them in the eye
(Source: thegermanmovie.com)
Paths of Hate - Damian Nenow (Director)
Amazing dog fight between a Spitfire and an Me109. This video will prove to be very useful when i start designing my end of year film, well just because of the era of pilots and planes.
WATCH
(Source: pathsofhate.com)
Josh Ritter - love is making its way back home
Really beautiful paper cut-out animation, have always liked this technique if its done right… Erez Horovitz (director) definitely succeeded in this animation. Check it out.
(Source: prominentfigures)
Just saw these and thought they would be great for animation references instead of perhaps film footage. And they are really nice to look at motion in general. Just using a strobe on a long exposure, in a dark room of course, fully open shutter. Pretty simple, use the strobe for however many ‘ghost’ images you want on the still. May try this technique out to record the actions of my character for reference on drawing.
shots of the shooting in progress. the colours of the backdrop look so smooth on the still images.
please vote for my baa sting on vimeo…. need all the votes i can get so pass it
any questions about technique or anything please feel free to ask
thanks TC
12 drawings a day - Denis Chapon, This is truly inspirational and very well done, especially when you find out that it was done re-using the paper, it wasn’t planned out and he didnt use a light box either. just lovely.
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Moonbot Studios - The Guardians of Childhood book trailer
This is the latest project they are working on and it seems just as good as the 1st. cant wait for more.
the fantastic flying books of morris lessmore
More ‘making of’ videos to come, part 7 is out on the 1st of october so i will post it as soon as i can. if you want to see more of there videos just go to their vimeo page http://vimeo.com/moonbot
they also have their interactive ipad version trailer there to.
the fantastic flying books of morris lessmore - making of part 6
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