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Category: Animation

  • Puppetfilm (Darkstrider.net)

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    In spite of all of the recent interest in stop-motion animation, notably Wallace & Grommit, Tim Butron’s animations, the original King Kong and, of course, the grand-master Ray Harryhausen, most people, myself included, have been unaware of an entire genre of stop-motion from Eastern Europe called Puppetfilm. Puppetfilm doesn’t refer to puppets in the Jim…

  • Wild Brain

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    If you ever wanted to know who to blame for those well-animated but skin-crawling Lamasil commercials about the dermatophytes who lift up a toenail and crawl in, here they are. Wild Brain is a San Francicso company that creates animations for commercial and entertainment clients using multiple styles of animation: 2D and 3D digital, Flash,…

  • Eadweard Muybridge

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    Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneering photographer in the late 1800’s. The story is that he set out to answer a question: “Is there a time in a horse’s gallop when all four hooves are off the ground?” To do this he developed an ingenious method of rapidly taking sequential images. As a result, he both…

  • Todd Gallina

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    Todd Gallina creates Flash animations for commercial and entertainment clients. The site features an archive of animations from both categories. It also contains well-crafted tutorials on creating and animating characters in Flash. The tutorials feature characters created for G. Beato’s Cooking with Bigfoot web toon series.

  • Michel Gagné (update)

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    I wrote about Michel Gagné‘s wonderful illustrations and comics back in August, but his galleries have recently been revised and are always worth another look. They are now arranged more logically and new work has been added. The site also includes an expanded listing of his books, my favorite of which is Odd Numbers, a…

  • Ghostbot

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    Ghostbot is an animation studio formed by San Francisco animators Roque Ballesteros, Alan Lau and Brad Rau. You’ve probably seen their snappy ESURANCE animated TV ads. They are one of the studios creating video animation in Macromedia Flash, normally seen as a tool aimed at web animation. The Projects gallery contains animations, storyboards and design…