A sketchy look at family life: Daddy’s on childcare duty while mummy gets the ice creams.
That little girl’s scream gets me every time.
Bird Box is an Animation and Illustration studio in the UK. Watch more of their videos, they’re all short, cute and funny.
Noelle
I’ve been a big fan of Kristopher Strom’s work since I first saw his whiteboard animated music video for Minilogue back in 2006
I love how he interacts with the creatures he draws under the camera. Makes for some wonderful surprises along the way. This seems to be a great medium for this type of animation, but as he says in the description of the video, it’s stop motion on whiteboard, so no undo or redo. Only makes it more impressive.
His most recent work on his youtube page is the Official Music Video for Benga’s “Baltimore Clap,” which follows a hapless little chap on a terrifying journey through a cavernous clap factory …
I love the snappy animation to the beat of the music, my favorite part being when the little chap’s hand grows back – only to find that the horrible cycle will continue infinitely for an unexpected purpose.
Noelle
And now a short clip from Pixar’s “Day & Night” by Teddy Newton.
I’m going to make a bold statement and say that this is by far the best Pixar short yet. I have a sweet spot for traditional animation, and here they have blended both 2D and 3D styles so well. The 2D characters are silhouettes while the 3D worlds inside of them make up their actual characteristics – one being Day and the other Night.
The sound effects are done in a very clever way. Different sounds of nature represent the characters emotions / actions – when Day falls, there is a sound of a tree falling; when Night laughs, it’s the sounds of little (adorable!) ducks quacking.
I have been a fan of Teddy Newton’s style ever since I was shown his concept and design work, particularly for The Incredibles.
It’s just so wonderfully crafty. I believe that the pattern on Edna’s dress is houndstooth. How fab.
~Joy
This is an oldie but a goodie – I just found it on the Gorillaz youtube page. They should finish it!!
~Noelle
Got talking with friends one night over drinks. Decided we should start a small film screening.
Movie Night at the Glasslands was born!
Golem wins the Audience Choice Award for Best Animation at Charleston! This is one of our favorite festivals, and this year was super fun – we have Tina McCard to thank for that! Thank you for giving us food and shelter for the week!
The lovely Tina McCard, me and Joy down at Folly Beach!
Festival Director Brian Peacher, me, Tina McCard and Joy at Club Pantheon
Opening Night Party – from the left: Joy, Dave Brown, Matt Slechter (won Best Feature for Republic of Pete) and me!
Meet Petra Mrzyk and Jean-Francois Moriceau, two French artists who recently got together with Mathematic to create a music video for Sebastien Tellier’s song “LOOK.”
this just in, at 3:00 AM this morning, noey and i completed our last animation sequence of the music video for “golem” by the maladies!!! ok, ok. noey finished hours before me. because well, she is much faster than me. but still, i’m doing my happy dance!!
we are finishing post production this weekend.
who needs a drink!?
~jOy
I remember my first crush. Obviously it was on a boy who didn’t feel the same way about me. He sat a few seats in front of me in class. He had long hair and disrupted the teacher all the time. My tiny black heart was captured.
“My First Crush” is a short by Julia Pott, an animator/illustrator based in London. I actually met her months ago through a good friend, but I haven’t seen her work until recently. Yeah, we’ve hung out – I’m name dropping right now …
i made many resolutions for the new year and haven’t been doing so well sticking to most of them. for example, i resolved to be on time for work and have come in about an hour late all month. but today i’m buckling down! i got in to the studio today about 15 minutes late – a vast improvement – and am tackling a few other resolutions like cleaning my computer and making room for new work! the best part about this is finding things i had forgotten about like this little gem from noey…
noey, thank you.
jOy
