Category Archives: Animation+Motion Graphic

old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time

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“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is one of five animated short films that will be considered for outstanding film achievements of 2011 in the 84th Academy Awards ®.

Even the animation is digital, everything what is said, shown in the animation is more ” analog” because in my eyes the story is about the beauty of books and how they are born, raised and what happens to people who do not read and so much more…

well done by the animation studio Moonbot and a production by William Joyce and director Brandon Oldenburg

Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, “Morris Lessmore” is a story of people who devote their lives to books and books who return the favor. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. “Morris Lessmore” is old-fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.

I wish the team all the best and I have to look for the other four animation to make myself a broader overview.

Everything is here to make short films!

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PES (born Adam Pesapane) is a director and animator of numerous short films and commercials. I love his storytelling  and his use of everyday objects and stop-motion animation to create original material.

He won several film prizes after his first short film “Roof Sex” (2002), which you can see below :-) more background information can you find here! Have fun on your saturday!

Playful – couleurful

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into time .org is a new piece by Rafaël Rozendaal. When you click on his site, you can play around with the screen, which is diving in a 45° direction every time you click. Wonderful couleurful work!  (via today and tomorrow)

one word: stunning

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I watch this little short video several times and now it is time to share it here, cos it is totally worth it.

Shot and hand-colored – frame by frame – at the end of the 19th Century. A dance performance of pioneer modern dancer Loie Fuller. Still captivating today, but just imagine what it must have been like to watch an image move and transform like this in 1899! A beautiful example of the earliest cinematic ART.

Lumière Brothers – The Serpentine Dance (c.1899)

kill the bunny

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Lernert & Sander are two dutch artists and friends who decided that working alone was getting boring and started collaborating on art related projects. Since their first video Chocolate Bunny they’ve been working on commercials, leaders, art movies, documentaries and installations. Their aim is to make simple and communicative works, that takes little note of the existing border between contemporary art and commercial projects. Their highly esthetic, humorous and dedicated works are often challenging the media and its viewer, in a simple but very effective way. Their work was selected for international festivals in New York, Rio de Janeiro and Oberhausen.

nice ads

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today I just want to show you three advertising videos, which I like a lot.

First is a slow motion ballet video for the Bayrisches Staatsballett. Well captured movement. Beautiful!

Second video is for kurzundschön, an international tv commercial motion design and short film competition for young creatives… and it is just stunning.

The third video is for a japanese mobile phone. Real great idea!

beeing colorblind

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That video is the right start for my 2011 year and after my pause for one months a good ways to find back into writing articles. The animation ” Ishihara” from Yoav Brill (studied animation at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Israel.) is narrating the animators story about being colorblind. My blog is nearly called the same, but I am not colorblind. I see some colors even stronger than most of my friends around me or I thing sometimes I can feel them but for sure I need them bright and strong around me. Enjoy watching the animation… it is really well done!

 

 

DON’T MISS THIS EVENT ON SATURDAY IN BERLIN

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At the 13. November the ” digital extreme competition” Cut&Paste will take place in the Admiralpalast in Berlin. The focus is on the disciplines of 2D, 3D and Motion Design. This is a public competition and puts the designer into the spotlight, whose give the audience a unique insight into their work. This year at ” Cut&Paste” there is for the first time a pre-event which a row of well-known agencies, which aims to design students and young designers who are looking to start a career at 5pm.

PRE-EVENT: DOORS: 17H; START 18H

MAIN EVENT: DOORS: 19H; START 20H

Studio im Admiralspalast, Friedrichstr.101

Contestant are ( click on them, to see their great works, THERE IS SO MUCH GOOD STUFF!!!)

2D:SILAN BEKJAROV, CONRAD HEISE, BERNHARD HÖRLBERGER, JAN LANGBEIN, KAI NICOLAIDES, DONNIE O’SULLIVAN, PAWEL PIEKARSKI,  JOERG SOLZBACHER

3D:SERMED DARAH, THOMAS JURETZKO, SEBASTIAN UNGRAD, HANNES WEICKERT

Motion Design: MARKUS FEDER, DIOGO DA SILVA NOVAES, MORTIZ SCHWIND, GABRIEL SMETZER

Its going to be very GREAT, really looking forward to see the event!

dance at the beach

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Short a 3 minute old film presenting the choreography and the dances of the collective of breakdance Dutch Illusionary Rockaz. Heading “IRC Dance Movement”, the plans are connected on a tape its Off Porcelain – Signal the Captain. ( seen at Fubiz). Nice old looking couleur and graphics involved in some jumping scenes.

it looks so easy and big, but of course its tiny and a huge organisation!

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thanks S. you are the best! this is a great short film  made for Nokia from the Sumo Science.

but even more incredible is the animation when you see the making of and you realise how tiny the little girl and the whole scenery is!

here the incredible making of! Well done, great work!