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Category: Motion Graphics & Flash

  • Animator vs. Animation (Alan Becker)

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    OK, I have to admit that this is something I find particularly appealing for a number of reasons, and may not appeal to everyone to the same degree, but I can’t help enjoying it as much as I do. First of all, I’m a sucker for comics stories or animations in which the artist interacts…

  • Ghostbot (update)

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    I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to get weary of the overuse of 3-D CGI in TV commercials. Yes, some of it is clever and very well done, but there’s just so much of it that the 2-D, spy-themed mini-cartoons for eSurance, produced by WildBrain (who I profiled here) and animated by the…

  • Arthur De Pins

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    French animator Arthur De Pins first gained notice with his animated short L’Eau de Rose (Bed of Roses, image above — bottom, left), for which he created the characters and animated them in Flash, with some additional compositing in After Effects. Macromedia (Adobe) Flash, a computer animation application which was originally aimed at the creation…

  • Adam Phillips

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    Unlike many of his compatriots, animators who left Disney Studios when the company ovelords decided to abandon their 100 year heritage and close their 2-D animation studios in favor of CGI, Adam Phillips left his position running the effects department of the Sydney-based studio of his own volition. His focus since then has been on…

  • Forget the film, watch the titles

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    What a great idea this is. The Submarine Channel, a web based launching point for independent film and multimedia producers, has started a new feature called Forget the film, watch the titles. This is the start of an ongoing collection of animated film titles, featuring examples of both opening and closing film credits divided into…

  • Leonardo’s drawings animated

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    As part of an exhibit called Leonardo Da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design at the Victoria & Albert Museum in the UK, there is an online exhibit of Animated Illustrations, in which the director of animations, Steve Maher and his team have used a combination of hand-drawn and computer-modeled animations to bring some of Leonardo’s amazing…