MetroCAF 2014

Posting this here so you cannot blame me if you missed the opportunity to see the best student computer animations created in our area in the last year: MetroCAF 2014 will be screened next Friday!
 

Electronic Theater

We have a busy month at out local ACM SIGGRAPH chapter! Here's another event worth checking out, a great opportunity to see high quality animation:

On Friday, March 14, 2014, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH and the NYIT Fine Arts Department are proud to present a very special screening of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Electronic Theater. This event will start at 7:00PM and take place in NYIT's Auditorium On Broadway at 1871 Broadway (between 61st and 62nd Streets.) Admission to this event is $10 for Non-Members and $5 for Non-Member Students. (NYIT faculty, staff and students can attend for free.)

The SIGGRAPH Asia Electronic Theater is one of the world's most prestigious film and video extravaganzas, showcasing dazzling and innovative imagery in invited and submitted works selected by a distinguished jury of computer graphics experts and specialists. We are particularly fortunate to be screening a special version of the Electronic Theater from the conference that was held in Hong Kong, China, in December 2013. This is an extraordinary opportunity for anyone that was not able to attend SIGGRAPH Asia 2013. Admittance to a single CAF Screening at the conference costs quite a bit so the admission for this event is a tremendous bargain.

You can visit the chapter site for all the event information

BYOA March 3rd

It is unlikely that I will be able to make it, but this is always a fun gathering and an opportunity to get feedback. From the NYC ACM SIGGRAPH chapter:

"On Monday, March 3, 2014, we're happy to announce that Bring Your Own Animation (BYOA) will return for the spring in a new home. Our previous location closed down in January so we'll be assembling at Scallywags at 508 Ninth Avenue (between 38th and 39th Streets) in Manhattan. We'll be in the room all the way in the back of the restaurant. We'll meet at 7:00PM and start screening around 7:30PM. We expect to be here until 10:00PM. Beverages and food will be available for purchase.

This is your chance to share what you've been working on with the rest of the NYC-area digital media community - and to check out what others have been doing. Come and meet other animators, exchange tips and ideas, maybe even find a future collaborator. We'll be hooking up a Mac laptop to the flat-screen so bring your work on a DVD or USB and we'll play it. (We will not swap out the computer to play from another computer so make sure you can transfer it to our machine.)

More details can be found on our web site"

SIGGRAPH ASIA CAF trailer

 

 

...and where are your great projects? No progress?

Hey!

Its been awfully quiet out here...

Or should I say: Hay!

Here's a student animation, for inspiration

 

The Final Straw - Ricky Renna from Ricky Renna on Vimeo.

This Friday: MetroCAF 2013!

Prix Arts 2013 Auszeichnung

Caldera (2012) from Evan Viera on Vimeo.

Destiny

Yet another well made and very entertaining student animation from France. The fact that throwing a cat under the bus was even considered as a possible ending indicates a lack of deeper meaning, but in that this animation can hardly be considered unique.

 

Read about the production in this feature on CGSociety

The Origin of Modern Animation?

This article in the Guardian on the Beatles movie "Yellow Submarine" makes a credible argument for considering that animation as pivotal in the history of this Art form, as being the first "mature" animation (not "adult" in the common sense). In the mainstream at least.

[Via Trendspottr / Alain Chesnais]

Something old, something new.

Being a bit under he weather I was browsing the NFB site and found a high quality version of this classic animation. Always a pleasure!
 

The Cat Came Back by Cordell Barker, National Film Board of Canada

 
Here are two more recent works from a series:
 

The Visitor by David Barlow-Krelina, National Film Board of Canada

 

Reverie.exe by Wen Zhang, National Film Board of Canada

This is a Title

After the previous, unfortunately title-less post, it is obvious not only animation from Eastern Europe can be hilarious and uplifting. Here is one from the same general region. Also dramatically low poly:

Apotheosis from Apotheosis on Vimeo.

Did I mention I would like you to LABEL your posts? With your name for starters? I am expecting a number of posts using the "Halloween" label, by the way.

Browsing Vimeo

This one in for Claire:

Gloam from We Are The Forest on Vimeo.

This one is for those of who like robots but still prefer 2D:

Flying Lotus - Putty Boy Strut (Until The Quiet Comes, new album out October 1st/2nd) from Warp Records on Vimeo.

Atom-Muel and Happy family trip

Help Herr Hoppe dispose of his nuclear waste.

For a more serious look at textures, the other animation we viewed in class today is called "URS". CGSociety actually has an article on its production!

Sound House

Official selection ANNECY 2012:
 

MAISON SONORE from Jonatan Schwenk on Vimeo.

This stop motion animation is shot really beautifully, and maybe one of you can make sense of the story. No CG though...

Sweater Dog

Sweater Dog from Gina Moffit on Vimeo.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Electronic Theater Screening

This Tuesday, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH will be screening the full Electronic Theater from SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011. This means everything, including company reels that can not be published on the DVD's. The screening is at NYIT in Manhattan (16 W. 61st Street). More info...

2D Trip

Welcome back for a new semester! Here is a video that the social media sent my way multiple times:

Rome - Two Against One from Chris Milk on Vimeo.

2D but not flat at all!

Teeny Tiny

I'm a bit under the weather and since there is nothing on the Tube worth watching (if you only have bunny ears) I am browsing through YouTube. And through the channel of a former student I came accross this one.

If you think animation is too big a job for you, look at this one:

Okay, maybe this just confirms your worst fears. But hey, it's Aardman!

Thank you again Bizarro for linking the Jersey Shore image

Hooked

This recent animation may be of interest to Brian at least:

Mourir en Felt

I don't know if any of you entered for the sex show, but here is another animation I found on Drawn!

Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side) from Veronica Christina on Vimeo.

Update: Okay, so that one was removed, probably this Veronica did not have the rights to post it. Here's another one: