Andrew Bird – Lull (daytrotter version): cool music, interesting shadow puppetry and animation.
(via Loobylu Tumbles)
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The Lost Tribes of NYC
For those of us with a love of pareidolia, a cool short film called The Lost Tribes of New York City by London Squared Productions.
(via Laughing Squid)
Another advance in lifelike CGI
This woman is a computer generated animation by Image Metrics. Pretty amazing. Though I do wonder if being able to reproduce a real person like this is a good use of time and resources? The Times Online has more details. The makers say 90% of the work is in convincing people that the eyes are real, lending even more weight to what puppet makers and lovers know about the eyes being the window to the soul.
Previously: Uncanny Valley
Big Dog
I had been ingnoring all the posts about Boston Dynamics developing state-of-the-art robotic quadruped, Big Dog, because I just get otherwise like that sometimes, but having just relented, it really is amazing. I hate to see such big defense involvement in it though, and to read it described as an army mule.
Update: Funny
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Animalia becomes animated
Graham Base’s 1986 alphabet book Animalia has been turned into an CG-animated TV series which is premiering today at midday on the Ten network in Australia, and simultaneously on BBC1 and CBBC in the UK, PBS Kids in the US and CBC in Canada. There are 40 half-hour epidodes, and you can see a trailer here. It’s made in Australia, mostly at Photon VFX.
Remember how we scoured each drawing for the small boy hidden in the page? He has been developed into a main character, Alex, who along with a friend, Zoe, get conjured into the magical world of Animalia. It sounds promising – I just hope I remember to watch it!
Here are some links that interested me:
- animalia.tv : Website and trailer
- Digital Media World: Jami Levesque, CG Supervisor, Animalia Productions, will present a behind-the-scenes look at the Making of Animalia on Thursday 15 November at 11.15am at the Australian Effects & Animation Festival 2007 in Sydney.
- Animation Magazine: precise
- Animalia Animated and The Series that (almost) never was: longer articles in The Age
- At youtube: Graham Base talking about the series in two sections: 1, 2; and a glimpse of the character maquettes .
PMS monster
Amy reminded me of this today, my PMS monster, from October 1997, ten years ago. In the past in more ways than one! If I remember right, I did the drawings and Amy animated it. I didn’t know how to, or even how to put things online then.
Play me something …
My daughter, Anna Raupach, has put some of her cool animations online! They belong to a body of work focusing on youth and music culture which she has been developing during her honours year at the ANU School of Art. As a finished piece, these and others will show on 9 big screens, flowing and interlinking conceptually from screen to screen in various ways. I find them fascinating, inventive and at times challenging, and I have loved seeing them evolve over the year. If you are in Canberra, you can catch some of them and some of her other work in an exhibition she is having in the School of Art Photomedia Centre Studio this week. The opening is tonight at 6pm.
Dragon
Dragon is a beautiful animation ad made for United Airlines. It’s made using paper cut-out stop-motion puppets, and you can see the process and team, lead by director, Jamie Caliri, in The Making of Dragon. Caliri also directed the ending animation for Lemony Snicket.
(via Lines and Colours)
