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Category: Animation

  • Piranesi’s Carceri d’invenzione animated

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    18th Century Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi was famous for his set of etchings titled Carceri (“Prisons”), sometimes referred to as “Carceri d’invenzione“, or “Imaginary Prisons”. These were architectural fantasies that were more in keeping with grand imaginative stage sets than any real prisons, filled with arches, bridges, sculpture and elaborate stonework. Artist Grégoire Dupond,…

  • Gobelins students’ animations for Annecy 2012

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    Each year five teams of students from the graduating class of the Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris create short animations that are used as introductions to each day’s events at the Annecy International Festival of Animation, which is happening this week. This year’s entries appear to have a theme relating…

  • The Boundaries of Life and Death

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    The Boundaries of Life and Death is a very short (one minute), beautifully realized black and white animation by Saskia Kretzschmann. It is based on a quote by Edgar Allen Poe: “The Boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other…

  • Chuck Jones shows how to draw Bugs Bunny and other WB characters

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    Here are a few short videos (on YouTube) in which the ever brilliant Chuck Jones shows how he draws some of his iconic characters: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Pepe le Pew, Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner. “…learn how to draw a carrot, then you can hook a rabbit onto it.” “Depending on what our…

  • The Story of Animation

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    Though it’s nicely tongue in cheek, The Story of Animation, a short video from graduates of The Animation Workshop, has an actual purpose. The talented young animators graduating from the Danish animation school found companies interested in using animation in promoting their products or services, but they also found their potential clients ignorant of the…

  • Inspirations

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    Inspirations is a beautifully realized and wonderfully conceived short CGI animated film by Cristóbal Vila. It is a homage to the works of artist M.C. Escher, conceived as Vila’s fanciful imagining of the artist’s workspace, filled with objects that refer to aspects of Escher’s work On his website, Etérea Studios, Vila provides information about the…