Monday, 14 May 2012

France is known for its innovative filmmaking with great and ambition animation schools: Gobelins and Supinfocom. Their students produce award-winning animated films year after year. 


Après la Pluie



Fur


Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008)



Skhizein won the audience award at Annecy, the Kodak award at Cannes, and just recently took home “best short” at the Manhattan Short Film Festival: the first time an animation has taken that prize I believe. It's great connection with story, design and animation. It has a limited color palette and a great examination of  figures.

Un Tour De Manége



Un Tour De Manége (Merry-Go-Round) tells about a young girl who hops aboard a floating merry-go-round only to be separated from her mother. It's a lovely animation with symbolic imagery and stunning rainbow water-colours of animation. As great as all french films.

Monday, 9 January 2012

Thursday, 5 January 2012

so cute

Lovely ad with beautiful animation. The characters and backgrounds are great. I will keep it here as an inspiration for my future projects.


Tuesday, 3 January 2012

some reference for my future projects.

This is what I will definitely do when I have a HUGE amount of FREE time.

Javan Ivey - My paper mind



This cool animation technique, called Stratastencil, created by adding layers of cut paper.
The author Javan Ivey showed some pictures of his working process in the blog.




Looks like a magic and lots of patience.

As an additional inspiration for me there is commercial video of a book made for NZ Book Council. I love the atmosphere of the film, the narrative and cut-out technique, which are great.

NZ Book Council - Going West





some nice stuff

Flip book (early as Kineograph) is a form of animation like motion pictures.
I loved flip books when I was a child and I still want to try to make my own one.
I found a website with a programme "Flipbook Printer" to help quickly to make your own.
Also here explanation how to make as well.



Also I will keep here someone's tutorial video about making animated optical illusion. That's impressive as well.