A collection of digital wonders and some other stuff.
I love the retro pixilated feel of the music video Move Your Feet.
There is a lot to admire in here including the great squash and stretch and excellent easing in and out.
It’s just another example showing that the complexity of the artwork is independent of the quality of the animation.
Beautiful little hand drawn animation I came across today, An Eye for Annai (23.8 MB QT):
From Jonathan Klassen’s site:
This film, [An Eye for an Annai], was done by me and Dan Rodrigues in our third year at Sheridan College’s Classical Animation Program. Everything is hand drawn and animated. We coloured the animation digitally, and the backgrounds are a mix of traditional and digital. I played the recorder for the soundtrack, and the jazz music near the middle is from Louis Armstrong’s “Jeepers Creepers”. The whole film comes in at just under 5 minutes long, and we’re pretty darn proud of it. Tell your friends.
Here is the Trick-Or-Treat vector art I made, in 13 lucky steps of progression.
Now (if you live in the United States anyway) you can just take pictures, upload them to flickr, order your favorites for printing and have them delivered right to your door. I heart flickr. This will be awesome for me once it’s available in Canada.
Of course now all the animation for the new King Kong will be done on computer, but just for fun here is some behind the scenes video at the new King Kong shooting including the original armature used in the classic 1933 King Kong (reanimated by the folks at Weta).
Behind the scenes of Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong (20.2mb Quicktime)
Check out this beautifully animated love story. It’s great to see how a wonderful story and quality animation eliminate the need for anything more complicated than stick figures.
Discovered just in time for Halloween is Spook, a short animated ghost story by Vancouver Film Student Megan Majewski.
Spook – Video Link (6.5mb Mov)
NASA has an interesting video tracking 21 named storms from the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
I can’t put my finger on why, but for some reason I’m mesmorized by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ music video Maps (45mb mov).
Somebody sent this to me on an old Intel voice / chat program many years ago (betcha didn’t know Intel used to make software). Anyway I came across it today and thought I’d share.
Interior shot: Bespin Gantry — moments later:
A furious lightsaber duel is underway. DARTH VADER is backing LUKE SKYWALKER towards the end of the gantry.
A quick move by Vader, chops off Luke’s hand! It goes spinning off into the ventilation shaft.)
Luke backs away. He looks around, but realizes there’s nowhere to go but straight down.
Darth Vader: Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough! He told me you killed him!
Darth Vader: No… I am your father!
Luke: No, it’s not true! It’s impossible.
Darth Vader: Search your feelings… you know it to be true…
Luke: NO!
Darth Vader: Yes, it is true… and you know what else? You know that brass droid of yours?
Luke: Threepio?
Darth Vader: Yes… Threepio… I built him… when I was 7 years old…
Luke: No…
Darth Vader: Seven years old! And what have you done? Look at yourself, no hand, no job, and couldn’t even levitate your own ship out of the swamp…
Luke: I destroyed your precious Death Star!
Darth Vader: When you were 20! When I was 10, I single-handedly destroyed a Trade Federation Droid Control ship!
Luke: Well, it’s not my fault…
Darth Vader: Oh, here we go… “Poor me… my father never gave me what I wanted for my birthday… boo hoo, my daddy’s the Dark Lord of the Sith… waahhh wahhh!”
Luke: Shut up…
Darth Vader: You’re a slacker! By the time I was your age, I had exterminated the Jedi knights!
Luke: I used to race my T-16 through Beggar’s Canyon…
Darth Vader: Oh, for the love of the Emperor… 10 years old, winner of the Boonta Eve Open… Only human to ever fly a Pod Racer… right here baby!
Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step towards it.
Darth Vader: I was wrong… You’re not my kid… I don’t know whose you are, but you sure ain’t mine…
Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down the shaft.
Darth Vader looks after him.
Darth Vader: Get a haircut!