Check out this cool animation by Tomas Mankovsky. Please check out their website and they have an awsome making off. Tomas really nice work and to all of your crew congratulations on a really nice production.
Some pictures of the making of
The Set
With no guide for animation the actor and director had to go with with gut feel.
Picking fishes for the underwater scene. (Oh those Ikea bags do come handy)
Cool stop motion music video, kind of surreal style but really complements the music from Crystal Fighters. Please check out their website at http://crystalfighters.com/
Great reel by L. Whyte, love the character design, set design, and the flow of animation. When you read their blog you can see all the trouble production went through, but let me just say this It looks awesome. Sometimes the best pieces have a very rough ride all way through production. Once again really great reel and hope to see more of L Whyte and his team soon.
All the footage is from “Nursery Crimes” which was a collaborative piece made with the help of many marvellous people.
Production design/direction: L. Whyte
Animation: L. Whyte
Puppets: Eunice Aitken/Amy Scott-Murray
Props: Jen Kinloch
Set: Hazel Aitken, Janice Aitken, Grant Crawford, Mairi Steele, L. Whyte
Colour grade: Steven Crichton.
Check out this amazing demo reel done by Hadar Landsberg, great examples of his work and personally I cant wait to see more of this great quality work.
A stop-motion video shot in Nov 2009 to bring awareness to the United Nations’ climate change conference in Copenhagen. And yet another great work done with stop motion! Lets keep it going!
Bjork contribution to the upcoming stop-motion-animation film Moomins and the Comet Chase, “The Comet Song” further illustrates the plight of those cute little Swedish trolls from the ’50s. For those of you who don’t know, the Moomins were a series of books by writer/artist Tove Jansson, and follow the plight of Moomins like Mommintroll and Little My as they stuggle with life, philosophy, crashing comets that may obliterate all life and giant frigging mountains with teeth that kill everything they touch. Anyway, in the grand tradition of psychedelia for children, Björk decided to pen a track that sounds something like if Scott Walker circa The Drift was asked to provide musical accompaniment for The Dark Crystal. ”The comet. Oh, damnit. The comet. Comes hurtling down…” Seriously. Check it out here. Oh, and proceeds from the dark little track go directly to UNICEF Pakistan children’s charities.
Lets support this again its for a good cause! Lets help in any way we can and stop motion is a great medium to do this. If you have any video you would like to share with us, please send it our way we really appreciate it!
Moomins and the Comet Chase is a stop motion feature film compiled from the Comet in Moominland-based episodes of the 1977–1982 Moomins TV series animated at Se-ma-for in Poland, restored and re-soundtracked with multiple voice actors replacing the single narrator. It is the second such Moomin film produced by Finnish children’s film company Filmkompaniet, the first being Moomin and Midsummer Madness, and the first one converted to stereoscopic 3-D. A similar revision of the remainder of the series for high-definition television of all 78 episodes will follow and is currently in production.
The international début was at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2010. In Finland, it arrived in movie theaters in August 6th 2010 and will later be broadcast on the MTV3 channel. The film will also be produced in dozens of other languages and will subsequently receive global distribution
Please check out their web site it looks awsome! Lets support stop motion movies and this one really looks cute and really well done, so im really looking forward for this I bet we wont be disappointed. http://www.originalmoomin.com/
I love it when stop motion is used for a good cause, in this case its for a non profit redesign project at Seattle Central Creative Academy. The team consists of Kkyle Hepworth, Heving Cox, Sahara Coleman. 300 figurines were cut out and posed, and animated to the lovely music by Elezeid called “Paper Mountain” composed specifically for this piece how awesome is that!
Check out this animation done by Aardman Animation Studios, love all the work coming out of here and if you are not familiar with it, please check it out in http://www.aardman.com/
This great studio has super talented animators and this clear examples of ordinary “stuff” is amazingly animated giving every object so much personality. This is one of my new favorite videos and hope you guys enjoy this as much as I did
Tim Burton has reunited with his Ed Wood screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski on a pair of projects. They will write The Addams Family, the stop-motion animated film that Burton and Chris Meledandri are producing for Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures. At the same time, Burton has come on to be a producer of Big Eyes, the fact-based drama which the duo wrote as a directing vehicle, based on artist Margaret Keane’s struggle to get credit for the line of paintings of big-eyed children that became wildly popular in the 60s. Burton will produce with Lynette Howell’s Silverwood Films banner.
The writers, whose scripts include 1408 and The People Vs. Larry Flynt, actually made another move, to UTA. They were repped for two decades by Tom Strickler and became charter Endeavor clients when that dealmaker, Ari Emanuel and others left ICM to form the agency. They had been repped by WME since Strickler left before the merger. Alexander and Karaszewski board an Addams Family project that Deadline first revealed in March, when Meledandri bought the rights to the ghoulish, darkly humorous drawings that Charles Addams created for The New Yorker. Those drawings also formed the basis for the toned down TV show and subsequent feature film comedies and Broadway musical. Burton will direct a film that is one of the plum projects on Meledandri’s slate for Illumination, the Universal-based family film unit which launched this summer with Despicable Me.
“Both of these projects are based on artwork that Tim absolutely loves,” Karasewski told me. “The retrospective in New York of Tim’s own artwork showed how much of an influence Charles Addams was to him. We want the tone to be as darkly funny and subversive as the Addams drawings, and we’ve come up with an approach that nobody has ever done before.”
Alexander said while they were discussing The Addams Family, they showed Burton their Big Eyes script.
Our new spotlight if the month is one of our favorite stop motion animators and has been highlighted numerous times in our blog. Kyle Roberts has a new video coming out soon! Check it out!
