Ninja December 31st, 2008
Using stop-motion and 300,000 candles, Raf Wathion brings us this New Year’s spot for Belgium-based energy corporation, Electrabel.
Agency: Famous
Director: Raf Wathion
Creative Director: Christophe Ghewy
Art Director: Nicolas France
Watch the making of video here:
Happy 2009,
Ninja
Ninja December 26th, 2008
What would you do if you found a lost, little penguin on your door step?
Build a boat and take him back to his home, of course!
My roommate first introduced me to Oliver Jeffers’s book, Lost and Found
I’m so tickled to find out that director Philip Hunt and Studio AKA teamed up to create a 25 minute animated adaptation of this award-winning children’s book. You can take a look at some of the stills here and check out the trailer here.
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Metallica has put out an awesome music video with Russians and zombies! It’s a really cool look at an alternate reality.
A combination of CGI, animation and footage scratched and blown out to look really old. It all just works.
ht: Ray
- Penguin
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A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.
A beautiful visually told story. The live action is seamlessly melded with the cg animation.
-Penguin
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Lately when I do dream, I’ve been having weird, funny dreams—so funny (to me anyway) that I wake up giggling. Dreams about being a young zombie girl (more on that later).
Anywho, I do hope that you’ve all had a wonderful weekend, and I thought I’d start your week off with my favorite song from Ra Ra Riot. Dying is Fine’s chorus borrows lines from an E.E. Cummings poem with the same title.
Enjoy this kid-friendly music viddy about the cycle of life directed by Albert Birney (The Spinto Band and the Teeth) and animated by cartoonists Nicholas Gurewitch (Perry Bible Fellowship) and Jon Moses (Midnight Inquirer).
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Ah, I know I’ve been quiet for a bit. What was I doing all this time? Recovering from work. Reading comics in my bed. Hiding away from the internets and falling in love with painting again.
Speaking of painting and painters, I’m crushing on the painter, Doc Hammer (Penguin finds this very amusing). Doc Hammer (whose birth name is Eric) is probably best known as one of the creative forces behind The Venture Brothers. He is a co-writer, editor, and voice actor (Doctor Girlfriend, Henchman #21, and Master Billy Quizboy) for this fine, animated television program.
For those not familiar with this boy-adventurer satire on Cartoon Network, it parodies the likes of the Tom Swift, Hardy Boys
Don’t wait for inspiration, it’s a myth. Painters paint, dancers dance, singers sing, and athletes… Okay, athletes don’t “athlete”… But you get the point.
– Doc Hammer
Doc Hammer
Saint No. 30
Saint No. 35
Saint No. 38
Saint No. 39
In addition to his beautiful, bra-clad figures, glowing lighting, and his Caravaggio/Titian interests, I love that Hammer is a self-taught painter (he went to SMFA to study art, but they taught him to BS instead, so he quit) who isn’t afraid to go out there, try his darnest, and FAIL. But hey, he’s learned from his mistakes and each painting has gotten better (and look, he’s gotten better at rendering flesh and has abandoned his brilliant Cadmiums from his earlier work).
The one thing that Jackson (creator, director, and co-writer of The Venture Brothers) and I are both very aware of and kind of in love with is failure. Failure is how you learn. Failure—it’s a beautiful, unavoidable flaw. And the minute you ignore failure, you’re an asshole. And the minute you embrace failure, you’re kind of charming.
– Doc Hammer
Related link
+ View Doc Hammer’s work from his exhibition at the Arcadia
Ninja August 26th, 2008
Comic writer and illustrator, Алекса Гајић (Aleksa Gajić) is directing his first animated feature film, Technotise Edit & I, which is based off his own graphic novel.
The story is set in Belgrade in 2074. The main character is Edit, a female psychology student. After her sixth failure at the same university exam, she decides to have the chip installed to help her pass. From that moment, her life changes and unusual things start happening to her.
- Wikipedia
Some of the scenes have a hand drawn quality to it, while others seem clearly computer generated. But surprisingly, the whole film is indeed CG.
This Image Metrics animation below just knocks my socks off.
Related postsEmily—the woman in the below animation—was produced using a new modeling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated.
– Video and article via the New York Times
Penguin August 24th, 2008
This beautiful little animation is a modern take on The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse. You can see the original below.
-Penguin
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This weekend, Ninja and I went to the MoMA to see the Dali: Film and Art exhibit. We had the opportunity to see one of the shorts he had done for Disney (of all places). It was originally supposed to be included in Fantasia, but it was deemed too risque for the film.
Finally, in 2003, some Disney animators resurrected the short and put Destino together. If you can’t make it to the MoMA, you’ll be able to see it on Oct 3. Unfortunately, you’ll have to catch Beverly Hills Chihuahua as it’s attached to it. I would recommend watching Destino and then going home to watch Spellbound the Hitchcock film which features 3 dream sequences as painted by Dali.
-Penguin
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A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION.
Here’s a link to the making of.
Carlos shot the film with a Nikon D70s and Sony HVR V1, captured with a Blackmagic Intensity Card, and edited using Adobe Photoshop, After effects CS3, Final Cut and iStop Motion on an Mac Pro from Apple. Many of the organic textures such as particles, drops, autumn leaves, etc, were carefully filmed over a green background in uncompressed full HD at 1920 x 1080.
A fantastic and beautiful short.
-Penguin
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