Rogers_Black and White Cartoons About ????

Two very interesting / disturbing hand drawn cartoons by David Firth, creator of Salad Fingers. One interesting feature about his animations is that the sequel takes place before the original, but concludes the narrative begun in the original in a way that feels far more complete, almost cyclical.

Burns_Story From North America

what if the world was made of pudding?

Strand_Resources

I really enjoy the textures in both of these pieces- especially the Clive Barker's paintings at the end of the first video.  Also interesting is the character design in Idiots & Angels; I like how every character looks vaguely sinister or grotesque.

Duncan_Do The Whirlwind

Rogers_The Circle Fishing Sock

Matter Fisher from Moth on Vimeo.

Brueggeman_One Day and Myosis

Here is the work of MFA students at Gobelins Animation, a school in France that produces some of the most technically breathtaking animated shorts in the world. Check out Vimeo if you want to see some of their incredible work-in-progress shots. 

Neff_Inspiration for next project

For my TMP final, I did an animation of a story told by my 6 year old nephew. I had zero experience with hand drawn animation at the time, and am thinking I may want to do another story like this.
Here it is: Another idea I had was to do something similar to the animations from The Wall by Pink Floyd... something that is very fluid and has one thing changing into another often. I am not sure what I want my subject or story will be yet
  

Widmer_examples

I like the idea of letting things flow into each other. I also like the idea of using music and sound effects to go along with the animation and not as much dialogue. These animations deal a lot with life and creation, which I think fits well with the concept of flow and I would like to try to do something similar where each component of my animation derived from a previous component. I might want to work with someone on creating music for the animation as well.

Robert_Margot's Inspirations!

The thing I love most about this first video is how well the movements match the music.  The creator has called this a finished piece, despite the very sketchy quality, but I think it is well coordinated with the musical style.


What I love about this second video is again, how well the movements match the music, and also the style.  It reminds me a lot of the iPod commercials, but (if you know the story and characters from Homestuck) you can easily tell which character is which with their minimalist design.

EDIT: And there's a film on Netflix by the Korean Academy of Film Arts called "The House" that I am really inspired by.  It combines animation with miniature real backgrounds.  Here is a link to the trailer: http://www.hancinema.net/video.php?table=film&id=25380.

Oh_Ideas for Next Project

Since I really loved stop motion in TMP III, I want to combine it with rotoscoping for the next project. A narrative will be included in the animation, but I am not sure what kind of story I am going to tell.


Miyazaki has always been my favorite animator/artist. I love his use of colors and drawing style, which bring out a bright atmosphere. Every story in his animations is touching and conveys essential life lessons — the importance of nature/ environment protection and love among people.





Stop motion demands a lot of work to do, but it is worthy and fun to do!




Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is also one of my favorite movies because of its beautiful setting (graphic design), actors' costumes, and plot. Especially, the surrealistic setting catches my eyes every time I watch it. The story is different from original Alice in Wonderland, which attracts me even more. 


As I showed above... I hate sad/depressing animations! I would really like to work on a bright and happy happy animation for this main project of the semester. :)

Shin_Next Project Idea

1) Children's Story
I have been always interested in children's stories and children's book illustrations. Some ideas I came up for a possible tale for children was either a very playful, imaginative mood or a deep and a little serious mood with a reflection on a society issue.

Sunday by Patrick Doyon, National Film Board of Canada

The animation clip above intrigued me because I love how the illustration is not tied down to the reality. It is also very fun and interesting. I also like how the plot is simple or rather, it starts out from a simple event and later reveals some complexity.

The animation "Obida" by Anna BudaNova also interested me because a child's psychology is depicted through a fictional character, and I thought I might use that idea too.

2) 3D Animation
I am not sure how far I can get with animating a 3D model, but I am also deeply interested in 3D modeling and animation. I thought of creating a 3D character of my own and animating it, then rendering it and move it to photoshop to create the background through rotoscope animation.
The video below intrigued me because I thought it was hilarious how the animals were made ridiculously fat. I am thinking of also going way out of range of reality with my character. I doubt I can create something of this much quality however.



3) Rotoscope Animation
I thought of doing another rotoscope animation focusing on crazy incidents/fights I had with my mom. I created a 5pg comic on the worst memories I had of my mom when I was young and I think it will be interesting to create a cute rotoscope animation based on that. The movie below inspired me with some ideas because I really like how the illustrations are drawn while the story is being told. I also love the simplistic, stick figure drawing style. The movie gave me ideas to include a possible narration with simplistic and active illustrations.

Jaime Lo, small and shy by Lillian Chan, National Film Board of Canada

Borromeo_We have lots of snow to work with

Bottle from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

I would like to do something with stop-motion, snow, and interacting with the city.  Not sure how I would do it yet, but it sounds fun! What caught my attention with this video was not only the artist's use of natural materials, but the way she is able to create such a deep relationship between the two characters so silently and gracefully.

Chen_animation ref

Synesthesia: A Dramatic Reenactment of Subjective Reality from Robert Sims on Vimeo.

I really really really like videos where people are talking about a health issue they live with, or some defining event in their life, or just a weird, singular experience they've had. More so when it's an animation/rotoscoped so there's a sense of anonymity but, at the same time, very personal. Kinda like they're sharing a big secret with a bunch of strangers. Public therapy?

What I liked from Synesthesia was its simple style and use of color/effect to carry across the person's experience.



Joseph Gordon Levitt Rotoscope Animation by Carliihde on deviantART

This one was just great in the movement and small details, like his expression right before he trips at the end. Particularly like the coloring choices, how the skin only blushes in the extremities.

Maxted_Ideas Ideas Ideas

I love a good music video that reflects the emotions and story behind its song.  If I could make an animated music video that does the same…  I've dreamt of tackling such a project for so long, but can I do it?

Some opening sequences to cartoons do this successfully.  This one rocked my world when I nine years old.


Speaking of music videos that SPEAK TO MY SOUL, check this one out:


On the other hand, there is the option of a musical narrative, like those out of Fantasia 2000 (below is one of my favorites):

Fantasia 2000 - Rhapsody in Blue by R174

An interview or short documentary could be fun, sort of like this one:

the Scared is scared from Bianca Giaever on Vimeo.

Perhaps even a short story:



Also, to be vulnerable and annoying for a moment -

Honestly, I'm having a difficult time figuring out what I'd like to do.

There are a lot of different things I'd like to try, but the time constraint (especially when the amount of work we need to do for other courses is considered), and my lack of ability is discouraging.

Obviously, I took this class so I can learn how to improve my abilities and broaden my knowledge in the area of animation and storytelling.  However…

For some reason, I'm starting to think that this is my only chance to really prove myself, because what if I don't find the same kind of motivation to succeed in the future - say, the summer - when I do have a little more time?  I need to take this opportunity to make something that I can be proud of, and something I'd feel good about including in my portfolio for sophomore review.  Am I creating too much pressure for myself?  Why does creating have to be so stressful?

I know I'm preaching to the choir, but man.  Do you guys have any advice?

Pedrasa_Animation Inspiration

One of my favorite animators and current obsessions is David O'Reilly. He uses minimal 3-D modeling, is one of the earliest proponents of glitch art, and has a refreshingly filthy, absurd sense of humor. He has done work in Spike Jonze's Her and Adventure Time. Though I love many of his animations, I picked RGB XYZ because it seems to be somewhere in between the crude, MS-Paint/Kid Pix-esque art styles resemblant of his old works such as Octocat, and the more thematically artful, 3-D animated style of his recent work such as The External World. Furthermore, I have been exploring the possibilities of databending for the past couple years, and appreciate how he uses its effects in animation. Also this film is straight-up bizarre and hilarious.

I'm not sure which direction my project will take, but the above is definitely a possible model. Other animations I love are J. G. Quintel's 2 in the AM PM, Pendleton Ward's original Adventure Time short (2006), Madeline Sharafian's Omelette, and Natasha Allegri's Bee and Puppycat. These are all highly influential on me as an artist, or even a human, and are potential sources for me to pull inspiration from.

Argiroff_inspiration

The Lion - Benjamin Scheuer/Escapist Papers from Radish Pictures on Vimeo.

Benjamin Scheuer creates a three dimensional atmosphere with two-dimensional materials. I love how he combines cardboard with illustration and uses different sides of the cardboard to create texture. The result is a truly dynamic and captivating animation. I would like to use a combination of cutout materials and illustrations in my own animation.
I appreciate the effort taken to create a song for this animation as well. The music gives the animation an interesting narrative twist.

Argiroff_Singing in the Rain rotoscope

Singing in the Rain Rotoscope from Emma Argiroff on Vimeo.

Brockette_3d Modeling/animation textures that give it more of a hand-painted quality

Stylizing Animation By Example from Pierre Bénard on Vimeo.


This video is a little bit heavy on the technical jargon and mathematics behind the process but essentially the gist of it is as follows:

"

The 2D hand-drawn style may be making it’s way back to animations soon.
Developers at Pixar have created a renderer that allows the artists to apply textures to individual keyframes in an animation sequence and have it adjust accordingly to the model’s orientation and scale. This allows them to take the smooth, almost-perfect 3D model and render it with imperfections in the crosshatches, outlines, and paint strokes."

Rogers_Orgesticulanismus

At the age of 40, Benoît Labaye was paralyzed from the waist down after a long and arduous battle against multiple sclerosis, and spent his remaining ten years oppressed by his inability to rise from his chair. In this chilling tribute to the man, Benoît's son Mathieu reflects upon a particularly poignant experience in which he recorded his father revealing pure desperation for movement that paralysis brings on.

My interest in this piece is the skill with which the animator expresses the obsessiveness of the narrator for movement, and the way he represents his human subject breaking free, first from the boundaries of the black box, then from oppressiveness of the rigid body, then from the coils of loose flesh, then finally from being itself, drifting through the endless bliss of abstraction.

Full video here:


Orgesticulanismus - Mathieu Labaye from Camera-etc on Vimeo.

Burns_Tom Waits Rotoscoped

Robert_Rotoscoped Anime?

Strand_example

Brockette_Matthias Brown

So here's an article I found on an artist named Mattias Brown who does a lot of rotoscoping experiments with gifs though it doesn't really look like he uses photoshop for the rotoscoping.

Matthias Brown

Strand_example

I really like the loose style of this artist's drawings.  The changing line qualities (about 40 seconds into the video) are particularly interesting.  I feel that the texture really helps to draw the viewer into the piece.

Neff_Breakbot

Breakbot - Baby I'm Yours (feat. Irfane) - HD from Ed Banger Records on Vimeo.

I really enjoy how the artist used water color to create this piece. I really enjoy the color and the texture it adds, and I think rotoscoping in this way really works well with the music.

OH_Rotoscope Animation Examples

Betty Boop from the Fleischer studio in 1930



A Part from Avalon Run


Skateboard Rotoscope!

Widmer_An example of rotoscoping used in commercials

Argiroff_Mini Rotoscope

Mini Rotoscope from Emma Argiroff on Vimeo.

Rogers_A Family Portrait

A Family Portrait from Joseph Pierce on Vimeo.


The Pub from Joseph Pierce on Vimeo.
Joseph Pierce takes a novel approach to the classic rotoscope. I enjoy the way that the artist leaves traces of the original video in the piece, but does not allow the background to distract from the subject. I also enjoy the way that the artist augments the scene, rendering internal characteristics externally visible.

Shin_Cute and cool rotoscope animation movies

Kitty Time
 Reindeer

League_CGI Animation for Davy Jones!!!

Argiroff_Rotoscope Example

This rotoscope animation by BFH Design Co. uses a variety of drawing techniques to portray animal movements and textures. Simple contour line drawings of fish compliment more detailed illustrations of animal faces. I really enjoy the movement captured in the tentacles of the swimming octopus and the weight in the steps of the elephant. The background compliments the subject matter well in most of the frames.

Pedrasa_animation inspo

Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.

This is a classic!

Pedrasa_beia's rotoscopeszzz

MOLT is a video I made for CFC I.




crappanda rotoscope was made for a Digital Studio exercise which I consider to be one of my finest, intellectual works of art.

Sturm_animations!

Not sure if this was Rotoscoped but I find it inspiring:


once more, once more from Katie Armstrong on Vimeo.

An interesting roto:

Sensory Overload (Interacting with Autism Project) from Miguel Jiron on Vimeo.

And a shameless plug :3

Window from sarah. on Vimeo.

Maxted_Lemonade wars

Lemonade wars!

Robert_The Amazing Rotoscope Man + Oishi High School Battle

Here's a short film about a comic artist! 



 

Taken from the description of the YouTube video: 
Mixing live action with over 1000 hand drawn images, this short film follows a comic artist who, upon waking up late for a meeting, finds he has the ability to turn his world into a drawing at a rip of a shirt - or at least he thinks he can...'This short was formed as an experiment in using hand rotoscoped animation with live action. The idea was simply just to use the rotoscoping as a narrative element and not just use it for the sake of it. Creating this film has led me to begin writing another short film using rotoscoping as a major plot device, almost a character in itself within a live action film.

And here's another one.  I know this probably isn't exactly rotoscoping, but I love the idea of putting an animated character into a filmed, real environment:

Duncan Test Post

WOW








ANIMATION

Bruegemann_Thoughts

Here is a film I made last year. One of the techniques I utilized involved rotoscoping eyes. Some of the in-between frames were a challenge, but the overall motion was accurate enough.

Link: https://vimeo.com/81747258



Thoughts from Raj Brueggemann on Vimeo.

Bruegemann_A Scanner Darkly: Methods of Production.

Hey guys,
Here is a cool video about the production of A Scanner Darkly. CHECK IT OUT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS6jgYZnHCU

Jeff Scher visiting our class

Filmmaker/painter Jeff Scher will be visiting our class Feb. 4. He makes a variety of types of work, including some that is rotoscoped. Check out how he paints on found documents and random surfaces.

His web site is here.
His work on the NY Times website is here.
 

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