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Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
2.03.2010
9.20.2009
9.18.2009
2.08.2009
9 and Coraline
Watch this:
Tim Burton is making this into a movie which should be pretty cool...as long as he doesn't mess it up like he did with Charlie and the Chocolate factory.
I just watched Coraline 3-D and it was awesome.
'Coraline': Making the most of 3D
Selick describes this scenario as "Alice in Wonderland" meets "Hansel and Gretel." Moviegoers might recognize more than a little bit of "The Wizard of Oz."
It took several years for the filmmakers to come up with their own version of sepia-tone Kansas and Technicolor Oz. Selick took the unpublished manuscript of the book to Bill Mechanic, a producer of the movie, who had worked with him on past films.
Initially Mechanic thought "Coraline" would be live action too, but Selick's push for animation prevailed. Still, Mechanic said he considered stop motion "kind of passe" and cast around for ways to make it "showier." He suggested that half the movie be shot in stop motion and the other half in CGI.
But the alternative reality, in Mechanic's words, "didn't really do the wow"; it didn't look special enough for Coraline to want to stay, or for audiences to be impressed. That's when 3-D, which had only recently become technically viable thanks to better technology and more comfortable glasses, came into the picture.
But with the entire movie now in 3-D, Selick and his colleagues still needed to find a way to make the alternative world stand out, literally. Selick's solution was to flatten the colors and "crush" the sets in the real world. Coraline's bedroom, the kitchen, the apartments upstairs and down: All these locations were compressed through the use of forced perspective and sets pitched forward toward the camera. For the alternative reality, the colors were deepened, the sets built out and the 3-D cranked up.
Tim Burton is making this into a movie which should be pretty cool...as long as he doesn't mess it up like he did with Charlie and the Chocolate factory.
I just watched Coraline 3-D and it was awesome.
'Coraline': Making the most of 3D
Selick describes this scenario as "Alice in Wonderland" meets "Hansel and Gretel." Moviegoers might recognize more than a little bit of "The Wizard of Oz."
It took several years for the filmmakers to come up with their own version of sepia-tone Kansas and Technicolor Oz. Selick took the unpublished manuscript of the book to Bill Mechanic, a producer of the movie, who had worked with him on past films.
Initially Mechanic thought "Coraline" would be live action too, but Selick's push for animation prevailed. Still, Mechanic said he considered stop motion "kind of passe" and cast around for ways to make it "showier." He suggested that half the movie be shot in stop motion and the other half in CGI.
But the alternative reality, in Mechanic's words, "didn't really do the wow"; it didn't look special enough for Coraline to want to stay, or for audiences to be impressed. That's when 3-D, which had only recently become technically viable thanks to better technology and more comfortable glasses, came into the picture.
But with the entire movie now in 3-D, Selick and his colleagues still needed to find a way to make the alternative world stand out, literally. Selick's solution was to flatten the colors and "crush" the sets in the real world. Coraline's bedroom, the kitchen, the apartments upstairs and down: All these locations were compressed through the use of forced perspective and sets pitched forward toward the camera. For the alternative reality, the colors were deepened, the sets built out and the 3-D cranked up.
1.27.2009
Sweet Dreams
This is insane. I mean, a cupcake and butternut squash? Put yo wrapper back on you crazy cupcake!
"Sweet Dreams" by Kirsten Lepore
Music by Kirsten, Chelsea, and Megan Lepore
www.kirstenlepore.com
12.30.2008
PEUR[s] DU NOIR
I can't wait to get my paws on this one:
I have to wait until February though. Boo. One of the animators is Charles Burns, who wrote Black Hole. Sex, drugs, and awesome black and white imagery.
I was looking at a hole… a black hole and as I looked, the hole opened up… and I could feel myself falling forward, tumbling down into nothingness. For a while I was just floating… I was in this totally black place. It was kind of spacey but it felt nice… nice and safe.
And of course I can't wait for this:
I hope this little ownership war between fox and warner bros ends well.
I have to wait until February though. Boo. One of the animators is Charles Burns, who wrote Black Hole. Sex, drugs, and awesome black and white imagery.
I was looking at a hole… a black hole and as I looked, the hole opened up… and I could feel myself falling forward, tumbling down into nothingness. For a while I was just floating… I was in this totally black place. It was kind of spacey but it felt nice… nice and safe.
And of course I can't wait for this:
I hope this little ownership war between fox and warner bros ends well.
10.29.2008
Wacky
What is with all these inanimate object-love related stop motion animations?
Also, how weird is this? This is a photo of frozen broccoli packaging.
IT'S PEOPLE!!!
Also, how weird is this? This is a photo of frozen broccoli packaging.
IT'S PEOPLE!!!
10.28.2008
10.24.2008
Huge Chunks of Whale Blubber Falling Everywhere
I stumbled across this today and thought it was pretty wonderful. What do you do when you have a dead whale on your hands? The same thing we seem to do with all of our problems. Blow them up.
Oh, and here is the actual news video.
Oh, and here is the actual news video.
10.17.2008
The stuff of dreams...
The Sandman. A Stop Motion Animated Short Film By Paul Berry.
The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1991. Paul died tragically in 2001 of a tumor. He also worked on The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. Models and sets by Ian Mackinnon who set up Mackinnon and Saunders in Manchester, UK. They went on to create the models for Corpse Bride.
And this:
I used to have a link to the 1979 version with a soundtrack I liked better...It came in the night by A raincoat.
Here is that song:
RW: Rabbit's Moon is a very directly emotional film.
KA: It's what I call a nocturne, a dream about me. It's about unrequited love and the moon is a symbol, as it has been in romantic literature, of the unattainable. The moon has always been something that's longed for. I use the figures of Commedia: Pierrot, the lost clown; Columbine, the flirt; and Harlequin, who's the devil, the trickster.
RW: Your harlequin is very spiteful.
KA: So he is. The world, to Harlequin, is a comedy. To him, it's uproarious to trick - to trip people up. Harlequin is Lucifer. To look at it from Harlequin's standpoint - which may be the devil's point of view - he's having a good time. In other words, Harlequin has no complexes; his approach to the world is very direct. You can call him cruel, but he is also a survivor and Pierrot the sad sack is not.
The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1991. Paul died tragically in 2001 of a tumor. He also worked on The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. Models and sets by Ian Mackinnon who set up Mackinnon and Saunders in Manchester, UK. They went on to create the models for Corpse Bride.
And this:
I used to have a link to the 1979 version with a soundtrack I liked better...It came in the night by A raincoat.
Here is that song:
RW: Rabbit's Moon is a very directly emotional film.
KA: It's what I call a nocturne, a dream about me. It's about unrequited love and the moon is a symbol, as it has been in romantic literature, of the unattainable. The moon has always been something that's longed for. I use the figures of Commedia: Pierrot, the lost clown; Columbine, the flirt; and Harlequin, who's the devil, the trickster.
RW: Your harlequin is very spiteful.
KA: So he is. The world, to Harlequin, is a comedy. To him, it's uproarious to trick - to trip people up. Harlequin is Lucifer. To look at it from Harlequin's standpoint - which may be the devil's point of view - he's having a good time. In other words, Harlequin has no complexes; his approach to the world is very direct. You can call him cruel, but he is also a survivor and Pierrot the sad sack is not.
But Wait... There's more!
While we're on Jan:
How's bout a little meat love?
And while we're on the topic of love between inanimate objects:
How's bout a little meat love?
And while we're on the topic of love between inanimate objects:
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