» Posts Tagged ‘animation’
Pixel art, along with its musical counterpart the chiptune, describes a game, video, or song produced on old computer equipment (or produced to seem like it was produced on old computer equipment). I suppose pixel art is no different from any revivalist pursuit, but there’s something uniquely funny about designing for a 192×160 screen (which is less resolution than the image at left) in an era of 1080p (and higher) resolution content. In an era of over-produced pop stars and slick but empty movies, perhaps that’s exactly the point! Simon Cottee’s 10-minute documentary on pixel art makes for an interesting follow-up to the retro-yet-high-tech short PIXELS posted here a couple weeks ago. More »
For whatever reason I’ve been featuring a lot of animated shorts here lately, and considering they’re averaging about 0.37 comments per post, why stop now? Patrick Jean’s eye-catching animated short PIXELS came out a month ago, but now there’s news that it is being adapted into a feature by Adam Sandler’s production company Happy Madison. Something tells me I’ll end up liking the original more… More »
Animator Jake Armstrong spent a year and a half animating this six-minute short in Flash. You’d never know, because there’s nothing “labored” about it. A thesis film at SVA, Armstrong said of the film that he thought it would be much better with music; I think one of the best parts is the relative silence (they’re in space, after all!). More »
The animation in this short by Christian Schlaeffer is amazing. The story… well, I’m not sure you can call it a “story.” If you take illegal substances as a method of escape and/or enhancement, you might want to do so before watching this surreal and gorgeous short! Viewed sober, it doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense. Which is exactly what made me want to watch it a second time… More »
No one’s going to make a (good) feature with this, but there’s definitely room in the toolbox for a cheap and fast 3D renderer like Moviestorm. For generating secondary content or doing pre-visualizations, Moviestorm could be yet another filmmaking tool that’s disruptive from a price standpoint (costs $8/month):
[via Mashable]
I find motion-captured performances (see: Robert Zemeckis’ CGI films) to be comparatively lifeless when measured against hand-animated fare (see: all of Pixar’s movies). The Netherlands-based crew behind Pivot employ a low-poly look not just to give their short style, but to make their characters expressive.
[via Short of the Week]
I can’t imagine why the Family Learning Channel would reject these. NSFW if you consider excessive cartoon gore to be NSFW. More »
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