Cardboard Animations--followup

After watching the cardboard animation by Sjors Vervoort I did some searching and came up with some other cool animations along the same lines. Roger Wieland has several cardboard animations available online. The first one is called "The Stand Up Comedian".

Take a look at his YouTube Channel for lots of examples of his work including the second one below, a great music video: Whatcha Got.



[Image captured from the video: The Stand Up Comedian]

Cardboard Animation

Here is another bigger than life stopmotion animation. Kind of a followup to Combo that I posted about last week. The artist in this one uses large pieces of cardboard painted with the characters and moves them around a real cityscape. Hard to explain. Trust me, it will make sense when you watch it.


This looks like a very doable project idea for a classroom.




[Image captured from video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18usd0iV3eI&feature=player_embedded]

Combo

Stunning animation done by Blu and David Ellis. Not sure how to really describe this...just watch it! I don't think you will be disappointed.

I'm going to show this to my media kids, give them a video camera, some magic markers and see what they can come up with.

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.

[Image captured from the video "Combo": http://vimeo.com/6555161]

Sorry I'm Late

Another stop motion video from Tomas Mankovsky, the guy who made Little Big Love.

Sorry I'm Late from Tomas Mankovsky on Vimeo.

LIttle Big Love

Here's a wonderful stopmotion done on a do-it-yourself budget but with fantastic results. Take a look at the slides which detail out the storyboard and the sets that went into the production of this piece. The picture above shows how he used a miniature train track and car to build a dolly for his camera.

Clever.

I am so going to steal that idea to use with my students.

Little Big Love from Tomas Mankovsky on Vimeo.

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It's a Bird

Thought I had blogged about this piece of animation history but when I saw it recently on a Monsters and Rockets post I went looking for it and it was nowhere to be found. I must have shown it to my students and never linked to it online. I will correct that now. Wish I could fix my faulty memory as easily.

It's a Bird was an animated short done by Charles Bowers in 1930. He was one of the early pioneers in film animation and stop motion. From what I can find, the car used in the animation was an actual car, not a model. So, it had to be cut up piece by piece for the effects.

Interesting article/review on Charles Bowers at the DVDJournal. The DVD is called Charley Bowers: The Rediscovery of an American Comic Genius out although it is currently out of print (stock). I did a short online search and couldn't find any vendors that had a copy in stock.



[Image captured from video]

Stop Motion: Rainbow Bunnies in a crowd

This commercial from 2007 is astounding. It looks like they did the stop motion on the rabbits with little care for the rest of the world. If someone walks or drives through the frame....no problem. If someone steps and flattens a bunny...it pops back up again. (Planned or accidental, either way it's cool.)

The blurb on the YouTube page says, "The stunning new advert from sony, it took 3 weeks, 40 animators and 3.5 tons of clay to make it to make it."

So, head out to the streets Do your stop motion. It could turn out astounding.



Found this "making of" video for the bunny ad just before I posted. There was a more complete list of materials and time:

• 2.5 tonnes of plasticine on set
• 40 animators
• 3 weeks
• 189 2ft bunnies
• 150 1ft cubes
• 10ft x 20ft purple wave
• 30ft giant rabbit.
• 6 cameras.
• 40 animators working through 4 hours generated 4 seconds of footage.
• 40 animators working on the same scene had never been attempted before.
• The 60 second spot will be constructed of approximately 100,000 stills.

[via Monsters and Rockets]

[Image captured from the video]

Morning Elegance: Stop Motion Video

Beautiful stop motion music video done to the song "Her Morning Elegance" by Oren Lavie

Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance
by IgnitionVM

Human Skateboard Animation

I've posted several things from PES before. They do some wonderful stop motion stuff. This particular one will have some of my kids coming up with all kinds of animation plans.

It will probably lead us into a little talk about trying to do this out in the field. All kinds of issues come up. But, if they want to try it....as long as I'm not the skateboard...I say go for it.




Previous links about PES:

• PES Stop Motion Production Company
• Western Spegetti

[via Neatarama]

[Image captured from the video]

Claymation and Comics 2009

I've enjoyed following the progress of this Claymation and Comic summer camp. Some good links to resources. Some great pictures. Lots of ideas if you are planning on doing something like this in your own classroom.

Wish I could remember how I discovered this? I had it set up in my RSS feed and it just started popping up this month. I don't remember putting it there. Must have been a late-nite find.

Anyway, worth a look if you are into this kind of thing.












[Image: Captured from http://claycomics.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/hello-world/]

StopMotion: Deadline

Yet another example of stop motion animation. This was a senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design for Bang-yao Liu. Below is also embedded a "making of" video. Enjoy.

Stop Motion: Wedding Invitation

Stop motion wedding invitation.

Can't make it to the wedding, but best of luck. Hope your lives together are as creative as your invitation!

Suco de Laranja--stop motion

Cool example of stop motion animation. Looking for examples to show my students as they are going to be creating their own in the fall.

do bem™ - Suco de Laranja 100% fruta (MPC de torradas) from do bem on Vimeo.

[via Neatorama]

The Seed

The Seed is a nifty animation using a combination of of 2D and papercut stop motion by Johnny Kelly of Nexus Productions.

I'll be showing this to my students as an example of what can be done with these two techniques. Lots of stuff happening in this video. Lots of idea generators for kids trying to think up project ideas.

Also I've embedded the Making of the Seed. Show these two together and your kids should be able to come up with lots of concepts on what to do and blueprints on how to do it. Let me mention that my students love the idea of animation but many quickly lose their affection for the technique once they realize the work and time that goes into creating one. Help them keep their dreams realistic. Start them off with small projects so they can see some results.


The Seed from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.


Making of 'The Seed' from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

[Image: Captured from MotionGrapher:http://motionographer.com/2008/11/27/johnny-kellys-seed/]

Stop Motion Animation

Neatorama posted a stop motion animation from PES recently and I liked it so much, I used it as one of my Friday funnies. I was curious about PES and went over to their site to look around and there is lots of great stuff. [Warning---there are a few things here you don't want to show in your classroom, so as always, preview anything you might present to the children and save yourself a trip to the principals office.]

Adam Pesapane is the animator and brains (camera?) behind PES. One thing I love about these films are their use of everyday objects presented in a different way. Clown heads become the flame discharge on a gun (Kaboom). Post-it notes become pats of butter (Western Spaghetti).

He also has a few films that aren't stop motion. For example, "Dogs of War" intermixes some old war footage with modern footage to great effect. I'm going to show this clip to my video students as an example of good editing.

I've embedded a short video from the site made by Adam on the making of "Kaboom". He explains some of the objects in the film and why he used them. This video by itself is a nice piece of film making. Head over to the site and spend an hour or so watching some great little films.





[Image captured from "Making of Kaboom On PES website: http://www.eatpes.com/]

Funny: Western Spaghetti (Stop Motion Animation)

Thanks to Neatorama for the link to this clip.