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 [...]
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 [...]
The Child by Alex Gopher is a really good typography animation. The entire city is created out of letters and it has been really cleverly produced.
The Forest is a short animation that has been produced by David Scharf. He worked at the Faculty of Graphic Design in the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg and this animation is his last piece of work. The content of this 5 minute film shows the struggle of a 12 year old girl and her struggle [...]
I found this illustrator on YCN and I have posted some of my favourite illustrations that were produced by Sarah King. She is a freelance illustrator from London and works for many different clients with The Guardian and Oprah Magazine being among them.
She uses type to create the images and I think that they have been beautifully produced. My [...]
Here is a number of stop motion videos that I discovered on The Strange Attractor
Deadling post-it stop motion
Here is a stop motion animation created used post-its and a wall, it was created by Bang-Yao Liu. It’s such a simple idea that has been produced so brilliantly.
You Came Out by We Have Band
This is a music video [...]
I discovered this animation company Studio Aka which in my opinion is absolutely amazing. It is based in London and would be known about throughout the world for the production of distinctive and pioneering work. They have produced work for Guinness, the National Lottery, BUPA to name a few. It is seriously worth exploring.
http://www.studioaka.co.uk/
This firm [...]
This is an animation that I found on It’s Nice That website http://version1.itsnicethat.com/. Its based on Oliver Jeffers award winning children’s picture books. It has been produced by Studio Aka’s Philip Hunt http://www.studioaka.co.uk/go/lostandfound/. The background to this is about a friendship that develops between and young boy and a penguin. The penguin arrives, unannounced on [...]
