More Skeletons

Dan Pirarro Posted this today in his blog

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]

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:

Again Gobelins

Un tour de Manège from Les Manèges & THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER from THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER team on Vimeo.

Just found these French animation via DRAWN! They did it again...

The Valley of the Uncanny Apes

Looking at Matt's Hatter the subject of the uncanny valley came up during this weeks class. A friend of mine posted this link on Facebook. He especially liked the reference to the Polar express at the end.

Image from the linked article on Wired Science.

Get it while it is hot

Want to know what you get when Salvador Dali creates an animation with Disney? Well, here it is:

I originally got it through a post on BoingBoing but it quickly disappeared. Maybe the FBI warning and the "1-800-no copies" had something to do with it. Let's see how long this one stays up!

Wolf and Pig

Another great example of a creative person with too much time on his (her?) hands: "At first I photographed stop motion　animation. And I displayed the photographs in my room and photographed it again.　Enjoy a connection with the world of the room and the world in the photograph" (via BoingBoing)

Painted Animation

Computer animation can be a time consuming endeavor. But it still beats painting every frame by hand! That is what Reza Dolatabadi did for his graduation project:

Khoda from Reza Dolatabadi on Vimeo.

Via Drawn!

Particles

Threw this on my personal blog, so might as well put it here too:

The first one is an example of a particle system rendered using sprites. The second one consists of partigons and was rendered as points with motion blur. The stuff falling out of the guy is rendered as a volume.

Into the computer

This one is for Lauren, via BoingBoing

Orginates from Cette Merde est Folle. How's your French?

The Storyboard according to Disney

Via Drawn! I came across this Disney documentary on Storyboarding.

Calling it cheesy is putting it mildly, but there are great drawings in it. Interesting how they talk about storyreel, which seems to be a forerunner of the Animatic. Not quite sure about the claim that Disney personally invented storyboarding, though Wikipedia seems to agree. What about Eisenstein, for instance? Tracing it back to Da Vinci may be a bit of a stretch though.