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).
posted by ocherdraco
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.
posted by ocherdraco
on Feb 6, 2013 -
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"
Jan Švankmajer is a major figure of contemporary East European animation whose surrealistic, often macabre work owes more to the nightmarish visions of Kafka and Buñuel than to the sunny daydreams of Walt Disney and his creative progeny. Noted for investing otherwise ordinary objects with ominous overtones, Švankmajer reached his widest audience to date with a feature-length adaptation of Lewis Carroll's "Alice" (1988) which blended animated and live-action footage--a technique he had earlier used to hair-raising effect in "Down to the Cellar" (1983)." --
TMC. Often credited with influencing the Brothers Quay, they hadn't actually seen his work until relatively late in their careers,
as they mentioned in an introduction to their documentary on Švankmajer (YT playlist). More of Švankmajer inside.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Sep 23, 2012 -
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SEED. "An egg and an apple build competing broadcast towers that vie for the attention of a transistor radio."
[Via]
posted by homunculus
on Dec 25, 2011 -
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Address is Approximate. "A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View."
posted by BoringPostcards
on Nov 23, 2011 -
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The book covers at Paris's famed Shakespeare and Company bookstore come to life in this stop-motion collaboration between director Spike Jonze and designer Olympia Le-Tan,
Mourir Auprès De Toi (To Die By Your Side).
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posted by Horace Rumpole
on Oct 19, 2011 -
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(notes on) biology, a short stop-motion animation (5.39) by ornana films, features a robot elephant. You have to wait a bit, but it's worth it. Stuff gets good at about 2.25.
posted by bwg
on Apr 25, 2011 -
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Bottle, a lovely stop-motion film by animator
Kirsten Lepore [NSFW], explores a long-distance relationship fueled by communication via not-so-instant message. [Kirsten Lepore
previously, kinda]
posted by bayani
on Apr 6, 2011 -
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Many people have described the popular freeform game Minecraft as
"kind of like Lego", so a few enterprising stop-motion animators have decided to
jump on that idea.
posted by The Whelk
on Mar 26, 2011 -
27 comments
Looks like The
Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers have been slated to star in
their own stop-motion animated movie,
Grass Roots: The Movie, produced by
bolexbrothers! Here, the Freaks' creator,
Gilbert Shelton, talks about the movie. In true stoner fashion, though, it's been "in production" since 2006, but
you can watch a teaser here. While you're waiting for the movie to be made, here's the youtubed version of bolexbrothers award-winning stop-motion feature length film,
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on Oct 27, 2009 -
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The puppets Pat and Mat are beloved everywhere their Rube Goldbergian antics have been shown on TV. A couple of inventive handymen they consistently solve simple problems in outlandish fashion. Pat and Mat traveled far afield from their Czechoslovakian origins thanks to their short running time and silence, which made translation unnecessary. Considered ideologically impure by Czech authorities, creators Lubomír Beneš and Vladimír Jiránek were allowed to make around 30 episodes by the Slovakian arm of the state television corporation. They continued making new episodes after Communist rule ended and production was kept going after they passed away. First, let me present my sentimental favorite,
Wallpaper. Below the cut are all the episodes I could find online.
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posted by Kattullus
on Sep 7, 2009 -
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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.
posted by ocherdraco
on Jun 12, 2009 -
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