Hach, der Rot-Blau-Kontrast sieht halt immer geil aus:
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Blue from Aymeric Seydoux on Vimeo.
Category: kurzfilm
Animation: »The Memory of Fountain«
Stilistisch echt interessante Kinderbuchverfilmung von EarthDesignWorks Kim Young-Jun. Die Pinkeljungenstatue am Ende hätte jetzt irgendwie echt nicht sein müssen aber whateva.
Haha, die machen auch ansonsten abgedrehten Stuff!
Animation: Mirage
Anime: Anime Mirai 2014
Anime Mirai ist eine staatliche Insitution in Japan, die seit 2010 Gelder an Animations-Studios vergibt um den Nachwuchs zu fördern, 2014 ist unter anderem Studio 4°C dabei:
Das sieht jetzt erstmal finde ich nicht so wirklich spannend aus. Den von Trigger 2013 in diesem Programm erstellten Kurzfilm Little Witch Academia, gibt’s ja offiziell und untertitelt bei YT (is’ aber eher so lala) und Death Billiards sieht zumindest von der Idee her interessant aus. (Via ANN)
Anime: Short Piece-Trailer
Es gibt einen neuen Trailer zu Katsuhiro Otomos neuem Kurzfilm-Projekt „Short Piece“, das am 20. Juli in Japan in die Kinos kommt. Sieht ziemlich gut aus, die verschiedenen Stile sehen vielversprechend aus und zumindest im Trailer macht es den Eindruck, als würden CGI und Animation sich langsam besser vertragen. (via ANN)
Animation: Perihelion by Nick Cross
Animation: Eye of the Storm by Lovett
This is a nice albeit pretty standard steampunk music video but I found the Making Of quiet interesting (if a little bombastic, maybe):
EYE OF THE STORM | Lovett from Lovett on Vimeo.
The Making Of : Eye Of The Storm from Lovett on Vimeo.
The involved companies Soapbox Films / Oddball Animation who also have a progression video of the SFX.
Animation: Vaesen
This is another one of these beautifully animated shorts, where I can totally dig the style and everything but then the only female character is naked woman that gets her head cut off to be used as a lamp. What the FUCK is wrong with you fuckers? God. Whatever. Production blog is here (via Motiongrapher).
Vaesen from The Animation Workshop on Vimeo.
Animation: The Reward
Bromance.
The Reward from The Animation Workshop on Vimeo. via Catsuka etc.
Well, this has been all over the blogosphere already but Animationsfilme.ch pointed out the production blog which led me to some blogs of the people involved: a Making of by Paolo Giandoso and one by Kenneth Ladekjær.
The bandit leader is by far the coolest character, so sad she only gets about three seconds screentime.
Animation: Paperman
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Here’s an insteresting and depressing feature on how Disney/Pixar (who cares, Kotaku … um, I mean io9) sees the future of 2d-animation: as an advanced render style for 3d-animation!
While the results look pretty nice it’s totally crazy how much effort goes into faking this 2d-look instead of just doing it in 2d (okay, that might still be more work but … but …). Then again the shortfilm breathes the „missing ye olde times“ so maybe it’s fitting. The interesting thing to know would be: does it work withtout the 3d? Did they find a way so you just need to do the keyframes and the computer does the rest? That would be neat.*
Update: Full thing is here (via Nerdcore). While the storyidea is boringokay, they just drag it on and on. And this is Oscar-nominated? I don’t know if that’s more telling for the Oscars or this short film if this mediocre piece is what they nominate.
And boy, am I bored of white people, does it always have to be white people? Turns out, it doesn’t.
*Especially because then there would be an alternative to this strange morphing that can be seen in movies like Waltz with Bashir and Alois Nebel, I really hate that.