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Fall 2009 Animation - Word Forms

Word Form Animation Preview - Fall 2009 from reedanimation on Vimeo.

Spring 2009 Animation

Spring 2009 Animation: Part 1 from reedanimation on Vimeo.

Spring 2009 Animation: Part 2 from reedanimation on Vimeo.

While you're at it, check out our walk cycles from November:

Fall 2008 Walk Cycles from reedanimation on Vimeo.

New Wallace and Gromit Short Planned for BBC Television

Wallace and Gromit are back!
From BBC News: Wallace and Gromit are to return in a half-hour television adventure - the first since 1995's A Close Shave.
Creator Nick Park said: "The story takes Wallace and Gromit in a direction we haven't seen before - both emotionally and technically."
Link to full story

More 60s Era Russian Animation

The Russian Winnie the Pooh (1969) The video is choppy at the start but fine after that: via Cartoon Brew

Mitten (1967)

Apparently this film by Russian stop-motion animator Roman Kachanov is very popular in Japan right now. It certainly features some super cool 1960s design brought to life with excellent animation… check it out.

Animation Sampler

Now that we’re getting back into our favorite subject for the fall semester I’d like to try to start bringing in more unique examples of what’s going on in the field of animation. This week we’ll be taking a look at these two examples:

Under the Cherry Tree, music video by Dael Oates for the Telemetry Orchestra. via Cartoon Brew.

Also, check out this demo reel of animation from artist Tony Cliff, via Flight Journal.

Update: Here's another cool one: The Fool Looks at the Finger that Points to the Sky , is a music video animated by Aaron Bradbury. via Cartoon Brew.

Screw-On Head TV Pilot

The Amazing Screw-on Head was a "one shot" comic written and drawn by Mike Mignola in 2002. The Sci-Fi Channel aired an animated pilot TV show based on the comic in July (you can see it here). Much attention has been given to reproducing the look and feel of Mignola's  style.

From Sci-Fi Channel: In this hilarious send-up of Lovecraftian horror and steampunk adventure, President Abraham Lincoln's top spy is a bodyless head known only as Screw-On Head.

Monkeyjam: A Quick Look

In the classroom we use the image capture program iStopmotion, which is Mac only. So many people have been asking about Windows PC programs I finally decided to sit down with one and try it out. The program I tried is called Monkeyjam, a free animation program that can be downloaded at giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com.

Video@reed

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Stop-motion Animation: Materials & Resources

Lately, students have been asking about what type of equipment they would need to do stop-motion animation at home. Here is exactly what we use in the classroom: