Category: Animation
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Sketch Theatre
Sketch Theatre collects step-through demonstration videos of artists from comics, film and game design, animation and related fields. Created by Alex Alvarez, founder and director of the Gnomon School of Visual Effects and the Gnomon Workshop, and produced by Lily Feliciano, Sketch Theater allows artists in these fields to give quick instructional demonstrations that pass…
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Ni no Kuni – Studio Ghibli/Level-5 video game
Studio Ghibli, the animation studio of Hayao Miyazaki, which is responsible for some of the best Japanese animated films (and a number of my personal favorites, like My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away), is entering the video game arena, partnering with Level-5 game developers to produce a game called Ni no Kuni: Black Mage. There…
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The Blank Page
The Blank Page is a short (3 minute) stop-motion animation by student George Metaxas that helped to get him accepted into the experimental animation program at Cal Arts. Metaxas describes it as “An allegory about the creative process”. What’s particularly interesting is the visual charm he accomplishes with his limited materials: a range of cardboard…
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Reverse Perspective Animation
Linear perspective is an attempt to codify the way that we perceive the relationships between the size of objects, and the shapes of objects, based on their relationship to us in three dimensional space and convey that perception on a two dimensional surface. The most important rules of linear perspective are that objects appear smaller…
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Gobelins Students Animations for Annecy 2010
As usual, this year’s wonderfully talented (and obviously superbly instructed) crop of students from the Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris have created short (60-90 second) animated films that are shown as introductions to the events of each day of the years’ Festival International du Film d’Animation d’Annecy (Annecy Animation Festival).…
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Animation Backgrounds
Quite often, the best part of an animated short or feature is the backgrounds. Since background images are onscreen for extended periods, and don’t need to change rapidly as do the characters, they are frequently the subject of intense design work and beautiful rendering. For a demonstration of how wonderful animation backgrounds can be when…