THE SWEENEY

This amazing peice of moving image was by the great Will Sweeney I've been a fan for a long time but not as active as i'd like!

OH MANDY!

Found this through Itsnicethat. Since feeling good about my own efforts of creating the house in animation I'm doing... This made me feel a bit like I wanted to curl up and die. She's amazing, check out this wonky house... It's by Mandy Smith. She's one of these people who you just want to kill, she's done music videos, designed furniature and can create something as techinical and amazing as this. It's one thing to produce mixed media work but to do all to such a standard just winds me up. Extremely inspiring. Her website is pretty shocking though... needs a new one.

This is made from PAPER.

FANTASMAGORIE: Émile Cohl

Émile Cohl created Fantasmagorie in 1908.

"To make this film, Cohl placed each drawing on an illuminated glass plate and then traced the next drawing-with variations-on top of it until he had some 700 drawings. In 1908, chalkboard caricaturists were common vaudeville attractions and the characters in the film look as though they've been drawn on a chalkboard, but it's an illusion. By filming black lines on paper and then printing in negative Cohl makes his animations appear to be chalk drawings. "

RAY PATIN

"This collection of art and photos all came from the Ray Patin Studios. They produced hundreds of amazing black and white TV commericals all through the 50's and early 60's.
"Check it out here or here!

Love the sketchy style of story boarding and even final results. Maybe this is what i'll do with Animation A?

LUIS LUIS!

Shadow Puppets from Luis Manuel on Vimeo.

Luis Manuel's hand puppetry. Oh my gosh.

VALÉE: DEUX

Globo Logos from Julien Vallée on Vimeo.

LUKE, HE'S THE BEST!

"Cut out bits of paper, fragmneted drawings and other elements are used to create work that celebrates the unseen and find magic in the everyday" - Luke Best





Here are two frames from two separate idents Luke produced for MTV. They're brilliant. So short but sweet(as a nut). Check him out...

J'AIME VALÉE

DIMITIRI STANKOWICS

This is by DIMITIRI STANKOWICS. Amazing. I can't get enough. Really reminiscent of 60's style Disney animation that I'm reeeal fond of.

MUYBRIDGE

Eddie Moybridge oh no sorry, spelt... Eadweard Muybridge you say...

True. Only cause he's about a million years old. No,I have the utmost respect for his work...

YOU ARE TINY IN MY HEART...

An animation by Michel Gondry about asking a girl to the dance...

SPACE IN THE FACE

My tea tastes funny...hmm

Rodchenko, an artist from slightly before the era i've focussed most of my research on but still is the resounding inspiration from the Bauhaus, Nevil Brody, Kraftwerk, & even Alfred Hitchcock! Also, his works represent Constructivism holds a large place in Russian cultural history.

I've come across his work a lot in the past but never really the sculptural side of things. I've been far too wrapped up in his photomontage and poster work. I found this work of his whilst scouring the Library after countless "Russia" searches on the library catalogue. After moving away from constructing my own set for an animation this put my right back on that route! I think if I were to create any kind of a set it would be a little abstract and use inspiration from these Spatial Construct's by Rodchenko...








These especially would work really well, to maybe represent the space station in which Laika in sputnik 2 would be launched from...

Efterklang

This video for Efterklang song Mirador was animated by Jens Christian Høgni Larsen & Nan Na Hvass.



I especially like the impossible staircase part at about 2:30. Here's some more work by Nan Na Hvass ...OH i've just realised they've got some work in the new YCN book...

Janine Rewell

This is a piece of Janine Rewell called Dolls house. I love it - it's a really good example of how to photograph and make miniatures well!

Anyway, she's good is Janine....

Andrew Holder

When researching illustration for animation, i came across Andrew Holder...
I love his style, the colours are beautiful. Like Eyvind Earl I may create backgrounds and layer the animation on top, this will be simpler than creating a whole new page for a new frame... and obviously less time consuming!









I think I use this idea for photographing books...I like it.

Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir

Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir is an Icelandic video artist. As she is also a member of the indie/folk band Seabear she tends to make their videos with fellow band member Sindri Már Sigfússon...



Birgisdóttir also made this amazing video for Múm.



Where it's fairly self explanitary how the Múm video was made - I'm not sure whether the Seabear video was made using some kind of greenscreen method in the book. I'm not sure. Yeah, probably that.

JOJO IN THE STARS

marc craste's jojo in the stars from joão ramos on Vimeo.

This is an animation that has always been close to my heart. It's written & directed by Marc Craste. I was shown it in college a few years ago by the art technician Joe. It won a BAFTA in 2004 for best animation. I like how dark and sad everything is and still it's a love story...The reason it's cropped up in my research is that I'm trying to create the sky at night - with stars etc for my Laika animation. I may have a go at creating a similar sky to the one used in this animation as it's got that hand-made look rather than it being digital. It is just a shine effect that you could do using after effects though...



Although Jojo in the stars used to be one of my favourite things to watch - now i'm not really keen on the characters and some of the shots, it all looks a little bit computer game style. it's just the difference of interest from 5 years ago to now. There are some really stunning shots in the whole thing that stand out and make me just think "wow" but then the close ups just look quite a bit CGI looking. not keen.

Since then Craste is responsible for the Lloyds TSB animation ads (HOH HOH HOH HOH HEEHOH HOH HOH... with the big noses)



aww...

ENYVIND-A JAYA JAYA

Eyvind Earl was an american illustrator, writer & fine artist. He may be best known for the background illustration for disney in the 1950's. He worked on animations like Toot, whilstle, plunk & boom - an animation about the evolution of instruments...


(this is brilliant. watch out for the fat horses)

Earl was also responsible for the background in Sleeping beauty and worked on Lady & the Tramp & Peter Pan.

TRUE LUV

Mary Blair, ahh...

HEY POLLY YOU'RE SO FINE Y.S.F.Y.B.M.M!!!!!

HEY POLLY ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !






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Oh Polly, You're so wacky!!!

I found this little gem in the Library. It's brilliant. Like all the other old fashioned embroidery i've found from around the 70's - 80's - it's a bit mad and sometimes creepy! In the last image i've selected, that man's face looks like the Michael Myers mask in Halloween! I do love the second image though, it's great. It's all kind of a bit sketchy. I think that's what makes it good in a strange way, it's a bit whimsical and childlike.