[midterm wip]

[S] Terezi: Remem8er

Homestuck is a long-running webcomic by Andrew Hussie and several guest artists, combining elements of a webcomic, text adventure, role-playing games, and flash animations. The animations themselves combine the art of all the artists involved set to music that was composed for the webcomic. The guest art plays like an animatic, while all the actual flash animation is doneby Hussie himself.

High Tide – Kristen Kemper

I really like the painterly/sketchy feel that the artist’s style has, and the way that they manipulate only a few symbols at a time and having limited movement but still expressing a lot through it.

Dinosaur – Ning Cheng

Short and sweet(?). I like how simple the visuals are while delivering a really strong punchline.

Hardest Boss EVER – CatFat

Let’s Play channel GameGrumps was founded by Newgrounds animator Egoraptor, so it makes sense that every once in a while he organizes a collaboration with a Youtube/Tumblr/Reddit animator in which they animate a sound clip from one of the Grumps’ episodes. I found this particular video really cute, and I found it interesting that it plays like an animatic, with the action parts having more frames than the non-action parts.

Draw with Me – Mike Inel

This video was extremely popular around the mid to late 2000s and was spread around artist hubs like deviantArt and sheezyart. It was a big influence on how I viewed animation less as a huge industry that is super hard to break into without being Disney and more of something that people can do in their own homes if they had the right tools! I really love the sketchy feel to it, almost like it was done with pencil and paper, and I also love the atmosphere that the artist created in After Effects.

Nephtali — Glen Keane

I love Glen Keane’s work on a lot of Disney films, and this is a really great insight on his process and style! I love the gestures and how fast and accurately he was able to capture some split-second poses, and I especially love the finished animation and how fluid the movement is.

How to Cope with Death – Ignacio Ferreras

I really love the fluidity of the animation, especially Death’s movements! It flows so smoothly, and I feel like the contrast between the grandma’s brusqueness and Death’s elegance is super emphasized through them. I also really like the different color palettes used to give different moods depending on where the story is (and takes a turn).

World’s Tiniest Animated Film!

In 2013, IBM was able to make a stop motion film at the atomic level using a scanning tunneling microscope to manipulate carbon monoxide molecules (which consist of one carbon atom and one oxygen atom). The video is really cute, and the fact that something like this has been accomplished is really incredible!

Whenever I see concept art for the newer (3D) Disney movies, especially Tangled and Frozen, it makes me wish for more traditional 2D versions of them as well, even if it was only just a 5 minute trailer… Not that I don’t love and appreciate the final versions– the animation and visual effects were GORGEOUS– but I am always a sucker for Disney’s 2D animation and I bet Frozen would have been just as amazing if it were (especially when looking at Jin Kim‘s sketches!)