This virtual space is an extension of AEAH 3770 Computer Art Applications and will be used to record class discussions and ongoing conservations relating to the course.
You want inspirational?! Here's some inspiration: A Scanner Darkly! If you haven't seen it yet, you should. The first time I saw it, I paused the movie constantly. Every frame was a work of art...I was so enthralled that I didn't pay attention to the plot and had to watch it a second time. Watch this trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXpGaOqb2Z8&playnext=1&list=PL290E60B3DF432A05&feature=results_main Pay attention to the movement of the hair or close-ups of the faces. Cool, huh?!
This is the animated music video for All Your Light by Portugal. The Man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ciVlsNPRY
The whole video is done using claymation and it's pretty great. The animation was done by Lee Hardcastle, who has done a lot of somewhat disturbing work in claymation. You can check out more of his stuff at leehardcastle.com
I thought that this video was pretty cool. It seems like a lot of pictures you need to take to get this and then taking these on the street where there are a lot of people around is crazy. And they do them all in cardboard.
I was a huge fan of stopmotion since I was growing up in the 1980's Clash of the Titans was a hit and would play on TV when it was still a tube and rabbit ears. Producers used claymation and puppet animation and possibly more. I is almost strange to me to think of it this way but that was CGI for most of my age group.... hahaha!!!! Check out a clip use this link http://youtu.be/Z3uFrtwQpbY
I was definitely pretty blown away by Chicken Run when I was a kid. I think it came out when I was about 10 years old and I was totally blown away when my parents told me the whole movie was done in clay. Especially with all the small details the animators did with the characters, like the mouth movements and things like that.
Here is a claymation that I recently discovered on netflix. It's based on a true story, and is really...real I guess is the best way to put it. It feels real, emotionally. You really connect with the characters, and the use of color and light furthers the connection.
I love this series on youtube that a teacher created to show to his students. I'm pretty sure it's animated, but it could be done exactly with whiteboard stop-motion or flip-book. It's charming and cute, and the guy reported that all of his students love it!
When we first started talking about stop motion animation, this music video came to mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb9X5jMofEo
Strawberry Swing by Cold Play...It's such a fun video using pixilation, white board (technically chalk board), and even object manipulation. I think students would love this because they have the possibility to create their own fantasy world like they have done in this video. It just opens up so many different ways of looking at stop motion animation and I think it could be very inspiring for them. You could use this video to introduce a project like...."Create a super hero and a story line to go along with it using stop motion." That completely came off the top of my head...but it sounds like an interesting start!
Among all the techniques discussed in class, I like pixilation the most. The main reason for that is because I always like to get people involved in my artworks, whether it is photography, drawing, or painting, etc. I just think that human beings truly bring a difference to art because we are all human, and, according to my opinion, we tend to be more connected to art when there is a human being presented in the piece. I found this video very interesting since it looks so real, and I love all the photoshop effects along with the stop motion. It also looks very professional. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P5uNFOKbog
I'm a huge Harry Potter nut and I was blown away by the animation sequence in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1. I'm always so captivated when this scene comes on - I can't take my eyes off of it. I'm not sure of the style/technique used to create it, but stylistically it is stunning.
I found this music video that's a combination of pixilation and object manipulation. It's made from 15,000 stills. The artist said that it took 6 months to make and it was filmed in two states. For 3-4 seconds of footage, the artist said that it took 6-8 hours of work. The video itself is amazing and inspiring in the craftsmanship and the concept. You can really see the effort put into it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD4CxpUSExY&feature=related I'm posting this link because I am fascinated by how amazing animated movies are now. The graphics, the detail in the movement of the hair, etc.. make them amazing. I don't mind watching it 200 times over and over with my step-daughter because I see something new every time I watch one of the movies. This particular clip is from Despicable Me. I love the minions, but they are so violent towards each other; I thought this one is still amusing and visually perplexing, but not as violent. :)
I'm not sure if this video counts, but I think it's amazing. Thousands of people contributed in redrawing a frame from the music video and putting it all together in the Johnny Cash Project. I think that the collaboration of all these people who don't know each other combining their efforts have made quite the work of art. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmky9Tx2UM
But if that doesn't count as animation then I also think this video is pretty awesome stop motion considering how painstaking it would've been to construct it within a video game. Towards the end of the video, a link pops up that you can go to that will lead to another video showing a little bit about how it was made. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmky9Tx2UM
I found this video a few years back, and it has always amazed me how well it is executed. It also plays off as pretty creepy, which I think fits the Radiohead contest it was intered into. Its very beautiful and eerie, and I think it captures how successful stop motion and object manipulation can be with the right execution.
This probably isn't all that appropriate, haha, but this was done by a strange British artist, David Firth. He's also a master at flash and has done some of the strangest, metaphorical cartoons I have ever seen. Many probably know him for Salad Fingers. Anyway, this is one of his stop motion works, which I believe has other techniques going on, and was also one of my main inspirations for earlier animations I've done as additions to the themes in my paintings.
I found this really good pixilation video that some kids have done. I like it because it uses more than one animation technique. Also it shows you that you can do some pretty hard stunts and still get a good pixilation video.
My good friend showed me this video, and I had no idea that an animation could be so weird. It starts out all cute and then gets really dark really fast. It leaves you kind of puzzled, wondering what you just watched. Its mostly a film, but has some computer animation included and uses puppets.
After watching the stop motion videos in class I've been searching for them on youtube and this xbox commercial is one of my favorites. It uses pixilation and claymation.
MIka's Lollipop music video has amazing animation. The vibrant colors create a childish mood and the animation itself expresses a dream like state of mind.
This video simply amazes me and makes me want to continue watching. I could say that it may even give me the desire to make one as well. This must have taken days to make. It is truly awesome. I love it and think it even has a great story line. It is epic.
You want inspirational?! Here's some inspiration: A Scanner Darkly! If you haven't seen it yet, you should. The first time I saw it, I paused the movie constantly. Every frame was a work of art...I was so enthralled that I didn't pay attention to the plot and had to watch it a second time. Watch this trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXpGaOqb2Z8&playnext=1&list=PL290E60B3DF432A05&feature=results_main Pay attention to the movement of the hair or close-ups of the faces. Cool, huh?!
ReplyDeleteHere is one that a teacher showed me in another class. It makes you think about education, but it is also uses the white board technique:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
If the link doesn't work Google: Sir Ken Robinson Changing Paradigms
The 12 minutes will go by fast.
This is the animated music video for All Your Light by Portugal. The Man:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ciVlsNPRY
The whole video is done using claymation and it's pretty great. The animation was done by Lee Hardcastle, who has done a lot of somewhat disturbing work in claymation. You can check out more of his stuff at leehardcastle.com
I thought that this video was pretty cool. It seems like a lot of pictures you need to take to get this and then taking these on the street where there are a lot of people around is crazy. And they do them all in cardboard.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18usd0iV3eI
It is neat, is there a way to find out how they combined animation types?
DeleteI was a huge fan of stopmotion since I was growing up in the 1980's Clash of the Titans was a hit and would play on TV when it was still a tube and rabbit ears. Producers used claymation and puppet animation and possibly more. I is almost strange to me to think of it this way but that was CGI for most of my age group.... hahaha!!!! Check out a clip use this link http://youtu.be/Z3uFrtwQpbY
ReplyDeleteI was definitely pretty blown away by Chicken Run when I was a kid. I think it came out when I was about 10 years old and I was totally blown away when my parents told me the whole movie was done in clay. Especially with all the small details the animators did with the characters, like the mouth movements and things like that.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVdlxwX6A7g
Here is a claymation that I recently discovered on netflix. It's based on a true story, and is really...real I guess is the best way to put it. It feels real, emotionally. You really connect with the characters, and the use of color and light furthers the connection.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgRjB8PEDkM
I love this series on youtube that a teacher created to show to his students. I'm pretty sure it's animated, but it could be done exactly with whiteboard stop-motion or flip-book. It's charming and cute, and the guy reported that all of his students love it!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfUPeVfrvlg&feature=plcp
When we first started talking about stop motion animation, this music video came to mind.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb9X5jMofEo
Strawberry Swing by Cold Play...It's such a fun video using pixilation, white board (technically chalk board), and even object manipulation. I think students would love this because they have the possibility to create their own fantasy world like they have done in this video. It just opens up so many different ways of looking at stop motion animation and I think it could be very inspiring for them. You could use this video to introduce a project like...."Create a super hero and a story line to go along with it using stop motion." That completely came off the top of my head...but it sounds like an interesting start!
Among all the techniques discussed in class, I like pixilation the most. The main reason for that is because I always like to get people involved in my artworks, whether it is photography, drawing, or painting, etc. I just think that human beings truly bring a difference to art because we are all human, and, according to my opinion, we tend to be more connected to art when there is a human being presented in the piece. I found this video very interesting since it looks so real, and I love all the photoshop effects along with the stop motion. It also looks very professional.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P5uNFOKbog
I'm a huge Harry Potter nut and I was blown away by the animation sequence in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1. I'm always so captivated when this scene comes on - I can't take my eyes off of it. I'm not sure of the style/technique used to create it, but stylistically it is stunning.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdSpZgE3fD4
https://vimeo.com/47793390
ReplyDeleteI found this music video that's a combination of pixilation and object manipulation. It's made from 15,000 stills. The artist said that it took 6 months to make and it was filmed in two states. For 3-4 seconds of footage, the artist said that it took 6-8 hours of work. The video itself is amazing and inspiring in the craftsmanship and the concept. You can really see the effort put into it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD4CxpUSExY&feature=related
ReplyDeleteI'm posting this link because I am fascinated by how amazing animated movies are now. The graphics, the detail in the movement of the hair, etc.. make them amazing. I don't mind watching it 200 times over and over with my step-daughter because I see something new every time I watch one of the movies. This particular clip is from Despicable Me. I love the minions, but they are so violent towards each other; I thought this one is still amusing and visually perplexing, but not as violent. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVAZh8UGbxo
ReplyDeleteThis music video is also AMAZING, it's stop motion using sand!
I found this flipbook animation that has 120 frames per second. That's pretty impressive! I hope you guys get some inspiration from this :)
ReplyDeleteMatrix Flipbook Animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UocF4ycBnYE
I'm not sure if this video counts, but I think it's amazing. Thousands of people contributed in redrawing a frame from the music video and putting it all together in the Johnny Cash Project. I think that the collaboration of all these people who don't know each other combining their efforts have made quite the work of art.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmky9Tx2UM
But if that doesn't count as animation then I also think this video is pretty awesome stop motion considering how painstaking it would've been to construct it within a video game. Towards the end of the video, a link pops up that you can go to that will lead to another video showing a little bit about how it was made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmky9Tx2UM
I found this video a few years back, and it has always amazed me how well it is executed. It also plays off as pretty creepy, which I think fits the Radiohead contest it was intered into. Its very beautiful and eerie, and I think it captures how successful stop motion and object manipulation can be with the right execution.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNRCvG9YtYI
This probably isn't all that appropriate, haha, but this was done by a strange British artist, David Firth. He's also a master at flash and has done some of the strangest, metaphorical cartoons I have ever seen. Many probably know him for Salad Fingers. Anyway, this is one of his stop motion works, which I believe has other techniques going on, and was also one of my main inspirations for earlier animations I've done as additions to the themes in my paintings.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oYjny4qNy24
I found this really good pixilation video that some kids have done. I like it because it uses more than one animation technique. Also it shows you that you can do some pretty hard stunts and still get a good pixilation video.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmFXhvErLPM&feature=related
My good friend showed me this video, and I had no idea that an animation could be so weird. It starts out all cute and then gets really dark really fast. It leaves you kind of puzzled, wondering what you just watched. Its mostly a film, but has some computer animation included and uses puppets.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ
After watching the stop motion videos in class I've been searching for them on youtube and this xbox commercial is one of my favorites. It uses pixilation and claymation.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNudcX_uUwM&feature=related
MIka's Lollipop music video has amazing animation. The vibrant colors create a childish mood and the animation itself expresses a dream like state of mind.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6md5RSnVUuo
This video simply amazes me and makes me want to continue watching. I could say that it may even give me the desire to make one as well. This must have taken days to make. It is truly awesome. I love it and think it even has a great story line. It is epic.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByGq-EdQ2L0