Journey Through A Melting Brain (The Stratacut of David Daniels) David Daniels is the master of
strata-cut animation, "a form of clay animation in which a long bread-like "loaf" of clay, internally packed with varying imagery, is sliced into thin sheets, with the animation camera taking a frame of the end of the loaf for each cut, eventually revealing the movement of the internal images within.... [I]n strata-cut, you build your imagery not just in X, Y, and Z space, but also considering time as a dimension, and the most important one."
Daniels' films are mesmerizing explosions of color. In an interview with Art of the Title,
he discusses the history of the process, his own trajectory, and how to make your own strata-cut animation (in a video demo at the bottom of the page).
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on Mar 4, 2013 -
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The Eagleman Stag is an award-winning stop motion animation film directed by Mikey Please with a striking visual aesthetic. The website for the film offers a
"How It Was Made" video that is, in itself, highly engaging, but comes with a warning: "BEFORE WATCHING THIS, WATCH
THIS. THEN ASK YOURSELF IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW." If that link puts you off "making of" media, then perhaps you can watch more of Please's work:
Spectacular View,
Zombiegotchi,
Seven Legs,
Animation Tag Attack EP-10,
title sequence for The Rabbit Lover,
Picasso Pictures Christmas Card,
etc.
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on Feb 6, 2013 -
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George Herriman's Krazy Kat (
previously,
previouslier) has been animated several times: in 1916 under the aegis of William Randolph Hearst a series of at least ten shorts was made, including "
Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing," "
Krazy Kat Bugologist," and "
Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse at the Circus." By 1930, under the control of Charles B. Mintz Krazy Kat had lost much of the Kat's own look, and had become, in films like "
Alaskan Knights," a knockoff of Felix the Cat and Mickey Mouse. In the 1960s, Gene Deitch's
Krazy Kat series got back to the original look of the Kat, but animation quality was poor, and the Kat was—GASP!—made explicitly female. In 1996, director Derek Mogford gave Krazy the stop motion treatment in a well-made short that's meant to be
an introduction to Herriman's kooky love triangle of Kat, Mouse, and Pup.
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on Jun 12, 2009 -
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