Showing posts with label stop motion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stop motion. Show all posts

8 June 2011

Kirigami - Building Designs

A kirigami model


Kirigami (japanese: kiru - to cut; gami - paper) is a variation of the Japanese art form Origami and involves cutting of folded paper to create different shapes. It is a good way to create free standing 3D models, frames, stencils and decorative items.


For my model, I am planning to use Kirigami models alongside the basic hard board layout to inculcate a more rough (intentional) and cut out kind of a feel. The kirigami models are easier to maneuver and bend as compared to a harder material model and thus will make filming much easier and give a more organic appeal to the model.

1 June 2011

Current Practitioners - Steven Warne


Steven Warne is the animator for Wallace and Gromit and Tim Burton's Frankenweenie. Having been fascinated by inventing and controlling little worlds from the time he was a little child, he landed himself an internship with Aardman at the age of 15. When at Aardman, he learnt in depth, the scale and magnitude of animation production. Warne has a clear cut animation style and specialises in stop-motion. He believes that stop-motion has a bright future and thinks that it is a good way to show creativity. Following are his top films:

Street of Crocodiles (Brothers Quay)
Creature Comforts (Nick Park)
Stage Fright (Steve Box)
Hedgehog in the fog (Yuri Norstein)
Loves me…loves me not (Jeff Newitt)

Show Reel 2010

Stop-Motion Showreel // June 2010 from Steve Warne on Vimeo.


Additionally, his blog has other animation projects and the work he has been involved with can be viewed at http://tinylivingpeople.blogspot.com/

Treatment in Post Production

A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.


Reference: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/31/50-incredible-stop-motion-videos/

6 May 2011

Model scale

Found the scale and style I'm going to be working with. Since I haven't made my model yet, I have a visual reference from the internet which would describe roughly what I'm working with!

1 December 2010

Stop Motion in real life.

A style I personally admire in the Stop Motion category. A mix of real life and surrealism.





Reference:
Lost Things - Written and Directed by Angela Kohler

15 October 2010

STOP and Stare!

Another great stop frame video. Coldplay's finest :) I'm betting those are chalk drawings. But wow, a lot of effort. And time. And a bunch of great artists!




So nice!