kangaroos can’t jump backwards by motiphe

2014-03-04

The mechanically artistic engineers of animation at Motiphe provide us with yet another playground for the clever. Here Director Rafael Mayrhofer wantonly toys with ideas, statistics, disturbingly fun facts, camera angles, tinfoil, storied layers of perception and expectation, clay, soap, scale and lighting. Nothing is really safe in this arena, but, there is one certainty. That is that the film is smart, simple, elegantly crafted and terribly engaging. Read on as Mayrhofer provides Dragonframe with an exclusive making-of vid and interview rife with some most excellent trivia that is sure to appear in Dragonframe’s new stop-mo boardgame, to be released soon.

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the man who was afraid of falling by wallace

2013-08-01

Something worthy of falling in love with. This BAFTA Cymru nominated film is the graduation project of Joseph Wallace and DOP and co-animator Emma-Rose Dade. The sweeping piece boasts great angles, beautiful lighting, story progression and music. The correlation between the flower pot and our bodies (physical containers) on this earthly plane is particularly subtle and moving. The piece combines delicate puppet animation with Van Gogh-esque paint-on-glass, shot at 24 fps. The sets are made almost entirely from recycled cardboard. Shot at Newport Film School, it took eight months and was developed through the support of Animation Sans Frontieres, the European Animation Production Workshop. Read on to for an in depth interview with the Director and to watch the excellent making of.

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as you watch my heart by andersen

2013-03-12

A visual feast in sets and lighting, this music video for the Danish band “Penny Police” is directed by Jacob Lundgaard Andersen and his thesis team at American Film Institute. Being trained in live action, it was the entire crew’s first foray into stop motion, heavily armed with Dragonframe and the DDMX-2. Read on for production notes and gorgeous set photos that make it clear how much fun was had in the process.

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