» Motion Graphics

Star Wander

Winnie Shek — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:26:08 +0000

Use the force….and click on this link, lol i know it’s cheesy but i couldn’t resist. If you’ve a interest in Star Wars/Paper Craft/Animation then this will be your cup of tea or if you like quirky stuff then this is also for you!

Matchbox heaven

Winnie Shek — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:49:58 +0000

Quirky music video using matchboxes

http://winnieshek.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/matchbox-heaven/

Signs of love

Winnie Shek — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:48:37 +0000

Awesome short movie!! Is a must watch!!! http://winnieshek.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/signs-of-love/

BBC Knowledge

Leah Batchelor — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:12:14 +0000

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 lot of information. I particularly like the way that it links one scene to the next the way they have achieved this creates added interest. It doesn’t jump and this means the entire animation works as a whole.

MK12 Motion Graphics

Jonathan Fleck — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:43:17 +0000

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 produced the graphics/credits for the Will Ferrell film, “Stranger than Fiction”, and more recently, the famous opening animation/graphics and gun barrel scene for Bond movie, Quantum of Solace.

See some of the

You can see much of MK12’s astounding work here on Vimeo, their main website is here, or here’s a few links to some of the videos that stood out for me:

Stranger than Fiction Opening Scene
Stranger than Fiction Closing Credits
007: Quantum of Solace Barrel Shot
007: Quantum of Solace Main Title Reel
Untitled 01: Infinity

Going West animation

Leah Batchelor — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:52:36 +0000

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, using only 10a scalpel blades and paper,” explains Martin Anderson. Two SLR cameras were used to capture the images.

This is a beautifully created stop motion animation. The transaction from one image to the next is suburb and the time and effort that has been spent is obvious and this has enabled them to create a piece where every detail has been thoughtfully thought out. The quality of the photographs also enhances the final outcome. Given that we are looking at applying sound to our photo essay hearing how it was applied to this animation has helped me to see how it has all been brought together.

The Hyde Tube: All you need is eyes

Leah Batchelor — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:26:26 +0000

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 are to hand. In my opinion it is well worth a look. I really like Mrs Mily, particularly the freeness demonstrated in the animation, it has all been hand produced and with the use of black, white and red which keeps it really simple and very effective. Also Mrs Ivy Monsoon wedding, this is a good example of how to transform from one scene smoothly into another, with the employment of lines and dots leading you through the opening titles.

The PEN Story

Owen Magee — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:26:15 +0000

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 aren’t as creative as they think. Here’s “A wolf loves pork” another stop-motion video by Mr Taijin Takeuchi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmkLlVzUBn4

Olympus said they were ‘inspired’ by this particular piece. Once again the thin-line between inspiration and plagiarism grows smaller…

Illustration in film

Stephen Pierce — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:26:02 +0000

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 not you like/have seen the film the titles are really well done. A mix of video and hand-drawn illustration. They are done by ‘shadowplay‘ who have done some other graphics too. Really like the titles – but maybe because of the music too – if it had been a still from it I might not have given it a second thought, but music seems to add more life to illustration I think…

www.shadowplaystudio.com

Chalk Board Wall.

Karla Burns — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:23:21 +0000

So I haven’t posted in a few days because I have been super busy. After watching a lot of chalk animations, I decided that I definitely wanted to try out an animation but I wanted to do it different. I didn’t want to go out and buy a cheap mdf chalk board instead I wanted to mix it up and create a chalk animation on a larger scale. After researching online I discovered that any wall in your house can be painted in to a chalk board by simply buying a tin of chalk board paint, another surprise was that I found that long gone are the days when you could only paint chalkboards black, you can now buy a full range of colours to paint; blue, green, purple, pink. I however wanted to stay traditional and bought black chalk paint, its £10 for a 750ml tin, which isn’t the cheapest as you need to do two coats, so I had to unfortunately half the size of wall that I was planning on painting. (this is the paint that I bought)

So for the past 2 days I have been painting half of my bedroom wall black and painting abstract style flowers down the opposite side (they are quite like the style of an artist called Brandon Boyd) to break up the dark black on the wall. I am so excited I have to wait another few hours before I can actually draw on it but I can not wait. It will be great for using to brainstorm on when I start on projects aswell. A huge blank canvas on my wall, that I can draw and redraw on. It’s great.

So I just wanted to let the class know that you can buy the paint and maybe someone one else would like to paint on of their walls or all of them into a chalkboard!