New York-based motion designer Cento Lodigiani takes inspiration from Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston’s 1981 animator’s bible, Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, in creating his visual exposition of the basic techniques of classical animation.
(via Cento Lodigiani)
‘Down Into Nothing’ (Via Jake Fried).
Simple but informative history lesson on the discreet art of framing screen action.
(via BoingBoing)
Illustrator and editorial designer Francesco Muzzi’s flowing composition lends the above twenty-second advert for Italy’s leading financial newspaper, Il Sole 24 Ore, a playful ingenuity.
(via Francesco Franchi)
Image from Razor Blades, 1965-1968 (…)
Ground-breaking abstract light, image, text and colour play by avant-garde filmmaker Paul Sharits (1943–1993).
Installation with four looped 16mm films
Colour, sound
Paul Sharits
16mm film, colour
14 minutes
Paul Sharits
16mm film, colour
12 minutes, sound
Paul Sharits
Also: Piece Mandala/End War (1966); Word Movie — Fluxfilm 29 (1966); N:O:T:H:I:N:G (1968); Bad Burns (1982); Dots 1 & 2, (1966); Sound Strip/ Film Strip, (1971–1972); Dream Displacement (1976); Tails (1976); and more.
TED-Ed has announced that it will add Jessica Oreck’s etymological mini-series, Mysteries of Vernacular, to its online video library over the next months. As Jessica plans to create 26 lessons — one for each letter of the alphabet, bringing stories of everyday words to life using paper cutouts and stop-motion animation — this is wonderful news.
(via Jessica Oreck and TED-Ed blog)
Daniel Chester directed this hilarious section from the animated film A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman.
(via Moth Collective)
Beginning with a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, and mixing ingenious stop frame animation with an eye for the macabre, Czech animator Jan Švankmajer delivers a surrealist’s trove of puppet play, ballet, opera, and theatre in magical ways. Jabberwocky is frightfully good.
A lot of love here for this short animation inspired by elementary geometry.
(via Geometric Daily)
Brighton-based animator Cyriak (Harris) instills his celebrated anatomical and mechanical strangeness in this music video for the latest song, Cirrus, from British electronic producer Bonobo. He doesn’t disappoint — the opening, recursive daydream (depicting some ghoulish, domestic idyll) builds up to a rousing, mind-bending finale filled with unearthly, dystopian delights.
Stumbled across this video of the collaborative three-dimensional works of French cartoonists Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot.
(via Rebus Books and Brooklyn Wayfarers)
This sprightly and neatly animated short set to music, draws attention to extrinsic features of important buildings designed by exceptional architects.
(via Ombú blog)
For the curious: further information about each architect and building can be unearthed at MIMOA and Great Buildings — two excellent online architecture guides.
A hyperreal, interplanetary fashion society foreshadowed by Prada. The autumn fantasy ‘lookbook‘ is refreshingly unsophisticated.
(via Wolff Olins blog and Fashion Gone Rogue)
Quite astonishing that this enchanting channel ident by the Brothers Quay was never shown after being rejected by the BBC.
(If you happen to be in London this week, the work of British artist and avant-garde film-maker Jeff Keen is being celebrated at the Tate Modern. Further details.)
This TV footage of a young Terry Gilliam demonstrating his cut-out animation technique for Monty Pythons’s Flying Circus is an absolute gem.
(via John Nack)
(via smile for london)
