Different animations/inspiration
Researching different styles and methods
This one's really bittersweet and the topic is relevant to my research project
This style of having constant movement and inconstant lines combined with the dark tones and jumping around makes me feel pretty dizzy and messes with my head a little. But as an animation it's very interesting, not like any I've seen before.
Playing on God's creation myth, playful and humorous. There's still something that kind of creeps me out about this style, very arthouse. I do appreciate the method though and really like it when the screen inverts for dramatic effect.
A modern style, trippy and psychedelic by Andreas Hykade
Really impressive animation, smooth transitions and interesting narrative taken from Hunter S Thompson.
Like this one because of all the different styles of animation, you get a really diverse range. Also like the idea of animating to someone else's poem or story
Last but not least is animation guru Glen Keane, creator of icons and expert in his field, he recently won an Oscar for his latest short 'Dear Basketball'. This man and his daughter, Claire Keane who also works in the industry are two of my biggest inspirations.
He seems to sketch from live models, getting them to enact the story while he draws for the most part.
Interview with Keane and Kobe on the short
In an interview with Glen Keane, he answers why 2D animation is still relevant and in some ways will never be replaced:
Well, the thing is, you would take it for granted. There’s something wonderful about live-action film. You see everything. Our mind has a way of zeroing in on the important essence -- the better you are at seeing, in some ways, the less you see and the more you see. You focus on certain details. CG tends to erase that. It shows you everything – it doesn’t have the focus that hand-drawn has. So, I was concerned. If this is going to be a very realistic animation, why not just do it in live-action? Is it better to do it in CG? Well, the CG would have felt like, “I really want to see it in live-action.”
With hand-drawn, I’ve always felt that drawing was like a seismograph of your soul, where the lines register an emotion and a feeling. Somebody showed me a drawing yesterday by Mark Davis [also one of Disney’s Nine Old Men]. It was a gorgeous drawing and instantly, as soon as I saw it, I knew, “Oh, that’s Mark Davis.” The lines, careful, but confident, just like Mark Davis studies. There was real intelligence to those lines. These are things that I know because I knew him and his work."
This one's quite interesting; looks like a mix of 3D animation and motion graphics. Lovely illustrations.
Ohayo is also really great, such a cool concept
Love me a simple pencil test. Pretty sentimental but looks at themes I'm exploring for my major project
Really loved seeing how the John Lewis Christmas advert was made, the combination of the cel animation and physical miniature made for a really magical animation.
Cool use of 2D and 3D together, although it's not quite rotoscoping, seems like they kind of map the 2D drawings to the 3D animation like you would do with motion capturing.
An interesting blend of sketchy 2D animation and projection art coupled with live dancing makes for a cool combination
This animation by Ryan Woodward I really enjoy. I love that the lay-in sketch is still there behind the drawings, it's gestural and fluid
Also really cool to see how it was made, choreographed, and animated in Woodward's loose gestural drawings.
He seems to sketch from live models, getting them to enact the story while he draws for the most part.
Dear Basketball, poem by Kobe, animated by Keane, scored by John Williams.
I love this style so much, the loose flowing gesture drawings, the raw rough sketch. I think the life of a drawing can often be lost in the final rendering, leaving it rough holds the soul of the drawing. Glen Keane hand draws the entire short with traditional cel animation.
In an interview with Glen Keane, he answers why 2D animation is still relevant and in some ways will never be replaced:
Well, the thing is, you would take it for granted. There’s something wonderful about live-action film. You see everything. Our mind has a way of zeroing in on the important essence -- the better you are at seeing, in some ways, the less you see and the more you see. You focus on certain details. CG tends to erase that. It shows you everything – it doesn’t have the focus that hand-drawn has. So, I was concerned. If this is going to be a very realistic animation, why not just do it in live-action? Is it better to do it in CG? Well, the CG would have felt like, “I really want to see it in live-action.”
With hand-drawn, I’ve always felt that drawing was like a seismograph of your soul, where the lines register an emotion and a feeling. Somebody showed me a drawing yesterday by Mark Davis [also one of Disney’s Nine Old Men]. It was a gorgeous drawing and instantly, as soon as I saw it, I knew, “Oh, that’s Mark Davis.” The lines, careful, but confident, just like Mark Davis studies. There was real intelligence to those lines. These are things that I know because I knew him and his work."
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