BBC Knowledge: A little knowledge goes a long way
Sea Pecknold has been taken on by Rokkit and he has directed this film for BBC Knowledge. This is his first venture into directing in a commercial setting.
I discovered this short animation on Creative Review. In my opinion this animation is very successful and contains quite a [...]
As part of the “Issues” class project, for which I’m putting together a kinetic typography piece, I’ve been looking for inspiration on the superb Vimeo.com. Whereas there are hundreds of good examples on both Vimeo and Youtube, I came across one studio in particular whose work just blew my mind. Motion Graphics studio MK12 have [...]
Going West on YouTube
Andersen M Studio has used approximately 3,000 still images to create this animation. It is an extract from Maurice Gee’s novel entitled ‘Going West’. They were commissioned to create this animation by Colenso BBDO. Line Andersen designed and created this and her brother Martin took the photographs. “The entire film is handmade, [...]
The Hyde Tube is an animation, film based website where you are able to upload your own short animation film. There are many different styles of film some hand drawing, some photographs and other computer generated. I am sure that there is something for everyone and you could spend hour’s exploring the different animations that [...]
I love this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Et7UQh1tg
The PEN Story, is a video created by Olympus (the camera company) which portrays; ‘a story describing “a journey through time” based on printed image’
The video itself is an amazing example of stop-motion design. They shot 60,000 pictures, developed 9,600 prints and shot over 1,800 pictures again with no post production.
However, Olympus [...]
Went to see ‘500 days of summer’ a couple of days ago, a kindof indie-romance film. Really liked the film-work, but also the illustrated graphics. Couldn’t get an image of them, but there are recurring line-drawings as time skips backward and forward throughout the film.
I also then thought of the graphics for ‘Juno’. Whether or [...]