Tag: animation

  • Even if I say so myself~

    I’ve got some pretty nice recommendations to share.

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  • S.H.E – The Tree at That Time

    I have created a brand new tag specifically for S.H.E ~

    Rainbows & Puppies.

    Because, well~ this music video and the song are self-explanatory.

    Despite being completely different, this brought memories of Viva Forever [MV] by the Spice Girls. I guess… I can see a tree in The Tree at that Time (那時候的樹)? Oh, and I guess… stop-motion mixed in live-action? xD

  • Assorted YAM Magazine Interviews

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    From left to right.- Laure Shang Wenjie, animator Bill Plympton, Crowd Lu, and Esteman.

    For the past couple of months I’ve been able to interview some of these awesome people. But that you knew if you were following all my ramblings on YAM Magazine.

    For some other of my interviews, click here.

  • The Wonders of 3D Printing

    It’s crazy how technology has developed in the past 20 years. The latest consumer craze? 3D printing, of course! It hasn’t only been featured on shows (with a special mention on The Big Bang Theory), but it’s been used in a broad variety of ways [1]. Miniatures of yourself [1], your face in chocolate [1], miniature of yourself in gummy [1], or candy [1].

    Its most striking use, because of its practicality, was how they used 3D Printing in the making of ParaNorman. Technically speaking, it was that usual “wow, why didn’t anyone else think of this before?” Printing the many faces needed to be able to animate your stop-motion movie. It gets the consistency so your animation doesn’t get blotches, and you get incredible detail (I LOVE THE LIGHT GOING THROUGH NORMAN’S EARS).

    The question that arises is- if they print the faces needed to animate, once they’ve done the movements in a CG environment. Is it stop-motion? Mixed media is more common than ever. There was a lot of special effects in ParaNorman, especially in its incredibly visual last arc, but the film is still considered stop-motion. So how much use of the computer do you need to have for it to not be stop-motion?

  • Shane Koyczan’s To This Day by Giant Ant

    Vancouver-based motion graphic studio, Giant Ant, took part in the making of an animation collaborative effort centered on the poem titled To This Day by Shane Koyczan, who was in charge of the We Are More poem used for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics [1]. To This Day focuses on the lasting impact of bullying on its victims, and though it feels heavy-handed with a +6min of running time with a narrative of negative lows in contrast to Koyczan’s climbing monologue, it’s still a project worth checking out because of…

    it’s animation.

    Giant Ant (which includes work by Jorge Canedo Estrada [1]) asked animators and motion designers to come up with 20-sec sequences to go along to Koyczan’s spoken poem, developing a wonderful mismatch of styles within its narrative.

    You can check out more of the To This Day project on:

  • Edet Soft ‘Edet Paper World’

    I want this (Dutch???) toilet paper!

    The best toilet paper commercials we ever got in Peru were of Suave, featuring Luis Miguel’s hit song, Suave [MV] — that’s the only one that ever stuck in my subconscious anyway. That one, for the song, and there was another one of a little girl who wanted to go to the washroom at a mall or something, and she was only with her father. Obviously, he couldn’t go it to the ladies room, so she went in with her father staying by the door giving directions, where he spurts “ahora limpiate tu potito.” (now clean your tushy).

    We aren’t any remotely close to having this kind of toilet paper commercial.

  • Street Fighter III – Fuurinkazan

    Some outstanding animated fanart from Derek Henriques and Victor Hugo from Brazil and their love for Street Fighter.

    https://youtu.be/BEz0mYMPbjU

    Derek Henriques
    Direction, Screenplay, Animation, Project Management, Smoke and Fire FX and Editing

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    Music, Sound Design, Foley and Mixing

    Lou Schmidt
    Music, Mixing, Hugo’s Voice

    Felipe Alves
    Source Material Consulting

    Victor Hugo Queiroz
    Producer, Co-direction, Screenplay, Art Direction, Character Design, Modeling, Rigging, Texturing, Lookdev, Grooming, Lighting, Rendering, FX, Post-production and Compositing)

  • Historia de la Musica by Pablo Morales de los Rios

    Over the years there has been some outstanding whiteboard marker illustration videos, like Drive: The Surprising Truth about what Motivates Us [1], Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson, or variations like James & Amy’s Electric Fence [MV] (drawn by James Cooper).

    Spanish artist Pablo Morales de los Rios takes a look at the history of music and lays it out all on the table.

    It’s a thing of beauty.

  • Urbance Trailer

    In a world torn by gender wars, Lesya and Kenzell must learn to unite and defy all the rules in order to expose the truth.

    This looks freaking outstanding.

    I haven’t watched Canadian TV in so long too.

  • Pest by Nooree Kim

    Just ran into this amazingness done by Kooree Kim, animation student debuting at the 3rd Cartoon Brew Student Animation Festival. Not many days left to vote, though. Still worth checking out all the other shorts.