Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.
A delightfully dark short by Rodrigo Blaas and a mostly Spanish crew that’s won a slew of festival awards.
Full credits on the website here.
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Veteran animator Richard Williams has updated his classic guide for animators, to include additional material on animal action, invention and realism. The new version is called The Expanded Edition.
He was recently interviewed in BBC Radio 4’s “Midweek” programme.
Listen to his 10 minute interview here:
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A little explanation: “Snowballs” was the original working title for “Balto“.
These two keys show the interior of a gold dredging machine in Nome, Alaska.
The quality isn’t great because they are from colour copies, but the vision is spot on.
Click ‘em to enlarge ‘em folks!
Workshop interior.
Gold dredger interior.
Production designer Hans Bacher turned out hundreds of these [...]
1: Lecturer in Design (Illustration & Animation) at Blackburn College
( The application deadline isn’t stated in the ad, but I imagine it will close within a couple of weeks)
2: Demonstrator in Computer Animation at Bournemouth University
Application deadline: Midnight on Thursday 24 September 2009
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The fifth and last short film made by the 2nd Year Gobelins students’ work has been shown as the curtain raiser at the Annecy International Animation Festival.
It’s titled “Jelly Sunday”. (Believe it or not)
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This short seems to me to have strong influences from John Kricfalusi and Bill Wray
The mix [...]
DODUDINDON made its debut at the Annecy International Animation Festival today.
It’s the fourth of a series of films by students from the Gobelins School of Communication, in Paris.
The production crew, Lucrèce Andreae, Julien Chheng, Tracy Nowocien, and Rémy Schaepman, have concocted a story of a plucky young turkey who wants to woo a buxom lady [...]
The rays of the sun wake FENRIR the wolf from a millennial sleep in the tangled roots of the colossal tree Yggdrasil, and from its topmost branches he attacks the sun. Behind him, a hero appears ….
(Please click these thumbnails to enlarge them)
The action is fast and furious in this film, with some astonishing [...]
Sorry I’m Late by Tomas Mankovsky.
(Requires QuickTime)
The “Making Of” is very engaging and informative, too.
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In just over a month it will once again be time for the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. This year, for some reason, it will be called “Annecy09“. (How do they come up with these crazy names, eh?)
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Here’s a crop of this year’s festival poster. (The rabbit is [...]
It took 17 artists ten days, 503 spraycans and 455 gallons of paint to make a 30 second animated film for Acura cars on 60ft by 40ft backdrops.
The car stays still and the background animates.
Here’s the ad:-
And here’s the “Making of”:-
The full cast list is here, and Collision Films website is here. (Requires Quicktime plug-in.)
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