The first time I saw this video from Daniel Larsson and Tomas Redigh I was skeptical that they had really animated it by hand, just by moving a bunch of coins around on the floor. Then I saw the clever trick they were using to lay out the individual frames. Still a tedious task, requiring serious commitment.
And although it remains to be seen if XtraNormal’s business model is going to survive the rising groundswell of interest in the technology, the advent of their ubiquitous text-to-movie software lifts the very last remaining entry barrier to indie movie-makers, which is itself a significant milestone. There can be little doubt we’re going to see a huge explosion of these robo-cartoons in the near future, and correspondingly rapid improvements in the emotive abilities of the speech synthesizers. I’m curious, too, about what the new noun is going to be/already is. Has anybody heard it yet? [Thanks, Maya!]
Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo. It’s hard to imagine that a mere nine months ago the world had not yet been introduced to the iPad. To point, I recently saw a young girl in a stroller playing some kind of interactive teaching game on, yes, an iPad. My first […]
Stéphane Halleux is one of my favorite artists. We’ve covered his whimsical, characterful, other-worldly sculptures here before. I’ve been excited to be following his recent adventures in turning his amazing characters into a movie. Here’s the latest video test he sent me. Even with this short piece, you can already see how lyrical, funny, charming, […]
Here’s a neat, mostly animated music video with roughly 3,000 frames drawn by hand. You should check it out!
Wow, I just came across Portland artist Joel Henriques’ blog, Made by Joel, and it is a wealth of good ideas for children’s projects. I like the simplicity of his paper chicken animation – just two pieces of paper and a pencil. [via minieco]
Too late for DIY Movie Making Month, but I couldn’t resist sharing this video created by Rethink Communications, Giant Ant Media, and Wave Productions to promote Design Week Vancouver, which is coming up at the end of April. They printed out over 2,000 bill-sized “frames,” ran them through a bill-counter, and filmed the stack piling up in the receiving tray to create the illusion of motion.
