Stop Motion Poetry for Fleet Foxes “Mykonos”
2009-02-06
We were just sent this beautiful music video directed by Sean Pecknold for the Fleet Foxes song “Mykonos”. Sean and his team spent four weeks animating cut paper on a glass multi-plane rig. The images flow so well with the track, quite cinematic! You may also know Sean as the filmmaking entity “Grandchildren”. Here is
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2009-01-31
Animation industry notables gathered at Royce Hall in Los Angeles for the 36th Annual Annie awards yesterday. ASIFA-Hollywood awarded prizes for last year’s best animation, including projects from film, television, commercials, video games, and short subjects. It was a night of animation giants, with amazing presenters and presentees such as Henry Selick, Nick Park and
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2009-01-24
I met Jamie while working on ‘Coraline’ in Portland, OR so I was excited to get the chance to work with him again on the USofTara credit sequence. I was also very interested in testing out the features of his stop-motion software, Dragon. When I arrived, Jamie had shot a test using a real pop-up
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2009-01-21
Here are a few more shots of our production plus a link to the Quicktime. The opening shot shows a full house “Pop-up” in a larger than normal book. Morgan Hay went to work straight away on the house. It was our most complex pop-up. As the house settles Morgan used some cleverly placed rare-earth
Read More >: More on United States of Tara TitlesFiat Punto: Les Rideaux
2009-01-21
30 second spot for Fiat by Partizan Lab director Olivier Gondry. Combines live action and stop motion animation.
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