The Brothers Animation Shorts

Peripetics, ex machina

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:09:00 +0000

Peripetics_ex_machina is the making of Peripetics and all the concepts that lead up to it or the outtakes that didn't make the final piece.

Featured in Vidos by Michael Fakesch, who also did the soundscape to it.

http://www.zeitguised.com/

Subconscious

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:01:00 +0000

my first 2 d animation film 2005

visuals : candas sisman

sounds : mix - candas sisman

Metachaos

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:14:00 +0000

Alessandro Bavari: Camera Tremula 1, Noise Melange, XYZ Ocula Depth
Fulvio Sturniolo: Camera Tremula 2
Jeff Ensign aka Evolution Noise Slave: Sonic Harmonium

Format: Pal Widescreen 1050x576 - Progressive
Duration: 8:27 mins
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Prizes

Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011.
Special Award IED at Skepto International Film Festival.
Best Experimental Film at the 2nd Stortford Film Festival.

alessandrobavari.com
info@alessandrobavari.com
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SINOPSYS
Metachaos, from Greek Meta (beyond) and Chaos (the abyss where the eternally-formless state of the universe hides), indicates a primordial shape of ameba, which lacks in precise morphology, and it is characterized by mutation and mitosis.
In fact the bodies represented in METACHAOS, even though they are characterized by an apparently anthropomorphous appearance, in reality they are without identity and conscience. They exist confined in a spaceless and timeless state, an hostile and decadent hyperuranium where a fortress, in perpetual movement, dominates the landscape in defense of a supercelestial, harmonic but fragile parallel dimension. In its destructive instinct of violating the dimensional limbo, the mutant horde penetrates the intimacy of the fortress, laying siege like a virus. Similar to the balance of a philological continuum in human species, bringing the status of things back to the primordial broth.

STATEMENT
METACHAOS is a multidisciplinary audio-visual project, articulated in a short film, a set of photography and mix-technique paintings. The purpose of the project is to represent the most tragic aspects of the human nature and of its motion, such as war, madness, social change and hate. An accretion of feelings that are metaphorically represented by specific visual forms, which are abstract conceptually, but concrete and tangible formally. The application of acid and monochromatic tints, besides the strong contrasts, makes everything intentionally more oppressive and tragic.

In order to obtain a more immersive and plausible version, the shot was taken adopting the camera live technique. The extreme and frenetic motion of the shoulder camera, similar to the subjective one, becomes a main constant, so that, along with the persisting cuts used to edit the video, create a bigger sense of instability and danger. In fact, thanks to the dissemination of Technology, it is possible to notice that the unconscious-esthetic potential of the shots available on Youtube, characterized by a pseudo-documentary and amateur approach, often offer an unexpected emotional involvement, which trigger an exhibitionistic-voyeuristic interchange between the author and the consumer.

The irrational gesture and action of the bodies, as if a collective form of madness controlled them, are inspired by artists like Bosch and Bruegel who, between the ‘400 and ‘500, produced an iconography where irrational images show sickly madness and pain.

The project has been realized using different techniques: live shots taken in discharged industrial sites, CGI animations, tracking and motion captures, besides various other analogical ones.

American Jeff Ensign, aka Evolution Noise Slave composed the original sound track, which has been progressively updated during the video production. The musical score was inspired by 6 separate pieces Jeff had previously created that were then combined into a hybrid. The composition was also based in part from a sonic interpretation of the ideas presented in Antonin Artaud’s the Theater and Cruelty overlaid on Bavari’s images.

Feeling My Way

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:51:00 +0000

animate! synopsis

What goes around comes around – the daily cycle of home-work-home illuminated in collage, Hi-8 and paint. Layered and luminous with in-sight.
long synopsis

An account of a journey from home to work as seen through the filter of the conscious and subconscious mind.
Through the use of moving collages and painterly animation laid over Hi-8 footage, the viewer is able to share the traveller’s experiences and his mental reactions to the trials and triviality of urban existence.
key credits

director
Jonathan Hodgson
rostrum camera
Jeremy Moorshead

Jonathan Hodgson
biography

Jonathan Hodgson was born in Oxford, U.K. in 1960 and educated at Liverpool Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. Jonathan has been a Freelance Animation Director since 1985, setting up ‘Sherbet’ with Producer Jonathan Bairstow in 1996 to produce commercials, TV graphics & short films.

animate! films by this artist

Camouflage

Feeling My Way
artist’s website

Hodgson Films

Jonathan Hodgson’s website
a film by Jonathan Hodgson
direction

director
Jonathan Hodgson

image personnel

rostrum camera
Jeremy Moorshead

production personnel

technical support
Timo Arnall

support

thanks

Soho Images and The Mill
primary funding

Arts Council of England/Channel Four Animate! award

© Jonathan Hodgson 1997

click on image for full size still

master copy format

format
35mm
colour or black & white
colour

video distribution format

video format
BetaSP
screen aspect ratio
4:3
video standard
PAL
sound type
stereo

distributor

LUX
info@lux.org.uk
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
www.lux.org.uk

Eye Liner

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:45:00 +0000

Elegant abstract animation that playfully explores archetypes of the human face.

Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound Designed and produced by Seth Norman. Supported by the Regional Arts and Culture Council.

Awards
Black Maria Film and Video Festival: Second Prize

Film Festivals:
ANIFEST (Czech Republic) April 26 - May 1
Big Muddy Film Festival (USA)
Portland International Film Festival (USA)
Salem Film Festival (USA)

Waking From A Coma

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:59:00 +0000

Waking From A Coma is an experimental animated short, a film stripped down to one colour. Created using multiple animation techniques ranging from traditional frame by frame to 3D expressions.

Directed, animated and soundtracked by Jesse Kanda.

jessekanda.com

Artificial Paradise, Inc

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:23:00 +0000

Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…what is he searching for?

In Artificial Paradise, Inc, Belgian director JP Frenay forecasts an eerie future for humankind in this experimental film that is glowing with CG polish and abstract imagery.

This Way Up

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:03:00 +0000

A.T. Shank & Son have a bad day at the parlour when a falling boulder flattens their hearse. Emotional and literal pitfalls lie in wait for the odd couple as they make their way cross country with just a coffin for company.

This short animated caper puts the fun back into funeral as their journey and relationship unravel on an epic scale.

Part of the BBC Comedy Shorts commissioning scheme, which was funded by BBC Films and BBC Comedy.

Crew

Director
Smith & Foulkes
Producer
Charlotte Bavasso
Writer
Christopher O'Reilly
Music
Christopher Taylor
Music
John Greswell

Funded By

BBC Films, BBC Film Network, BBC Comedy, The Animation Show, Arcadi and Film London

Festivals & Screenings

AniMadrid Animation Film/TV Festival, Spain, 2008
Cork International Film Festival, Ireland, 2008
Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia, 2008
Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan, 2008
Short Expression: International Film Festival, Mexico, 2008
Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, USA, 2008
The Times BFI London Film Festival, UK, 2008
Encounters International Short Film Festival, UK, 2008

Awards

Best Animation, Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA, 2008
National Film Board of Canada Public Prize, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada, 2008
Audience Award for Animated Short, Palm Springs Internationl Film Festival of Shorts, USA, 2008
Special Public Prize in International Animation Short, Mundos Digitales Animation Festival, Spain, 2008
Best Children's Film, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden, 2008
Best in Show Award, Siggraph Asia Computer Animation Festival, Singapore, 2008
Special Mention, No Words Category, Bolzano Short Film Festival, Italy, 2008
Jury's Special Mention for Best Humour, Animation Dream, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia, 2008
Shooting People Comedy Award, London Short Film Festival, UK, 2008
Nominated - Best Animated Short Film, Academy Awards, USA, 2009

Presto

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:44:00 +0000

Presto is a 2008 American Pixar computer-animated short film shown in theaters before their feature length film WALL-E. The short is about a magician trying to perform a show with his uncooperative rabbit and is a gag-filled homage to classic cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes. Presto was directed by veteran Pixar animator Doug Sweetland, in his directorial debut.

Train of Thought

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:26:00 +0000

A short film in paper by Leo Bridle & Ben Thomas.

Train of Thought was made as our graduation film from The Arts Institute at Bournemouth. Although we used digital compositing software, all the animation and models were done by hand, not with CGI. The film took approximately 9 months to complete, from storyboards through to the final edit.

The music is by Portico Quartet arranged by Jack Wyllie porticoquartet.com/
and sound design by Andrew South vimeo.com/andrewsoundesign

Making of here: vimeo.com/5704398
Official film website - including full credits: train-of-thought-film.com

Train of Thought

Making of

Girl & It

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:16:00 +0000

[Short Synopsis] A hunter falls in love with a girl, who lives in the wild, with a beast that he is promised his King to kill as his trophy.

Girl & It is a short experimental animated film Mohammad Ahmed Fikree started from November 2010 to January 2011. Mohammad Fikree's upcoming short animated film CHILDREN will have similar theme and style from Girl & It.
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www.mohdfikree.com

Mount Head

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:39:00 +0000

Storyline

A miserly man eats the pits of some cherries he can't stand throwing out. A tree starts growing from the top of his head. He cuts it off; it grows back. After a while, he gives up and lets it grow, but the crowds that gather on top of his head to enjoy the tree (and leave huge mounds of trash) eventually drive him to uproot the tree. This leaves a crater on top of his head, which fills with water, which becomes a popular lake. Written by Jon Reeves

(Koji Yamamura, 2002)

Dripped

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:22:00 +0000

An uber-cool homage to Jackson Pollock by French animator Leo Verrier. An official selection for Annecy 2011:

Dripped from ChezEddy on Vimeo.

Chick

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:17:00 +0000

Michal Socha’s Chick (Laska) from Poland. The images in this short stay with the viewer long after the film has ended thanks to a combination of stark production design and energetic animation, especially the jaunty dance of the lady, who appears to be a prostitute. The sex scene (safe for work) illustrates the effectiveness of abstracting an idea in animation instead of literally showing it. It may surprise some viewers to learn that the film was made primarily in CG, using 3D Studio Max along with After Effects and Toon Boom. Dig around the film’s official website to see the storyboards and concept art.

CHICK from Mayki on Vimeo.

Junko's Shamisen

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:06:00 +0000

Though primarily live action, I had to post the phenomenal debut film by Toronto-based filmmaker Sol Friedman. Junko’s Shamisen, which played the festival circuit last year, was recently posted online. A visual tour-de-force, it combines live action with cel, stop motion (by Pete Levin) and computer animation.

www.junko-film.com

Baaa

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:29:00 +0000

Experiments in ovine geometry.

Software used: adobe after effects.

More inc commercial art work @ http://cyriak.co.uk/blog/

CHIMERASCOPE SHORT FILM SERIES

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:50:00 +0000

Welcome to the screening room! Below you can see some of Voltaire's "Chimerascope" short, stop-motion films that pick up where his station IDs for MTV and Sci Fi Channel left off.
Voltaire describes the series thusly, "They are each about a minute long, animated in stop-motion animation and narrated by a singer. Moreover they each have a title that sounds like it could be a disease of some sort. These films have a dreamlike quality. The are intentionally short to give the viewer just enough time to take them in, but not enough time to truly examine every detail. The goal is to recreate the feeling a dreamer has upon awakening, when the dream is fresh in their minds but quickly fading. There is the sense that one has seen something fantastic, but one struggles to remember the details. The process employed in making the films is also tied to the surreal, allowing the animation itself to take shape in a stream of consciousness. Often, key plot points are conceived of on the spot, in the delirium of sleeplessness, in the wee hours of the morning after animating for hours. And lastly, the narration, unlike in most films, is written after the film is finished. It is based on what the visuals subconsciously suggest."Narrators involved in the Chimerascope series so far include Deborah Harry of Blondie, Richard Butler of the Psychedelic Furs, Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance and Danny Elfman.
You can see the first four films below:

DemiUrge Emesis- narrated by Danny Elfman

A mummified cat is tormented by the skeletons of past meals.

DemiUrge Emesis 2010 AWARDS:
Stiff- Seattle True Independent Film Festival AWARD: "Best Animated Film"
Fear No Film Festival AWARD: Fear No Filmmaker Award
Independents' Film Festival AWARD: Best Independent Animation
The Indie Gathering AWARD: 1st place Experimental Animation
Famous Monsters of Filmland Film Festival AWARD: 2nd Quarter Winner: Animated Film
Chicago Horror Festival AWARD: Best Experimental Film
Atlanta (Underground??) Horror Film Festival AWARD: Best Short Short
Arizona Underground Film Festival AWARD: Best Animation
Terror Film Festival: Honorable Mention in Filmmaking
Dark Carnival: AWARD: Best Score

2011 Awards
Famous Monsters-Imagi-Movies Film Festival: Best Animation

2010 NOMINATIONS:
Chicago Horror Film Festival: nominated: best special effects
Oklahoma horror film festival: nominated: best animation
Dragoncon: nominated: best short short
Animazing Spotlight: nominated: Achievement in non-narrative animation
Syracuse Horror, Sci-Fi Fantasy Film Festival- Best Animated film
Terror Film Festival: nominated: Best Fantasy Short Film
Terror Film Festival: nominated: Best Sound Design
Terror Film Festival: nominated: Best Original Music Theme Song
Dark Carnival: nominated: Best Short Film
Dark Carnival: nominated: Best Director

X-Mess Detritus- narrated by Gerard Way

Voltaire takes a dark look at holiday gift-giving and the negative effect it has on the Earth in this one and a half minute creepy Christmas parable.
X-MESS DETRITUS AWARDS:
2009-South Beach International Animation Festival- "After Dark" Honorable Mention
2009-Dragoncon Film Festival- "First Place Animated Short-short"
2009-Atlanta Underground Film Festival " Best Short-short"
2009-Official "Warm Up Film" of the Terror Film Festival (screened at the beginning of every screening block).
2009-Terror Film Festival- "Best Fantasy Short Film"
2009-Animazing Spotlight: Nominated for best design overall.

Transrexia- narrated by Richard Butler

A T-rex recalls a relationship gone wrong with a Pterodactyl in this prehistoric postcard.

TRANSREXIA Awards 2008:

*Best Experimental Animation-Dragoncon Film Festival

*Best Short Short- Atlanta Underground Film Festival

*Honorable Mention- Twin Rivers Media Festival

*Best film pound for pound- Daggers Horror Short festival, NYC

*Best Fantasy Short- Terror Film Festival, Philadelphia

TRANSREXIA Awards 2008:
*Best Experimental Animation-Dragoncon Film Festival
*Best Short Short- Atlanta Underground Film Festival*Honorable Mention- Twin Rivers Media Festival
*Best film pound for pound- Daggers Horror Short festival, NYC
*Best Fantasy Short- Terror Film Festival, Philadelphia

Rakthavira- narrated by Deborah Harry

A one-minute tour through Hindu Hell as narrated by Blondie's Deborah Harry

You can see the entire collection at:
http://www.youtube.com/voltairenyc
Source:

http://www.voltaire.net/chimerascope_films

Marvelous

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:33:00 +0000

Directed/Animated by Lizzi Akana

Music and Sound by Erin Kilkenny

Rhode Island School of Design Degree Project 2005

Winner of:

"Best Student Film": Animation Block Party
"Best Animation: Chris Frayne Award": Ann Arbor Film Festival
"Silver Hugo Award": Chicago International Film Festival
"Best Student Film": Flux ipod Film Festival
"Best Student Experimental/Animation": Carolina Film & Video Festival
"Special Jury Award": Seattle International Film Festival
"3rd Place: Best of 2006": Microcinema International: Independent Exposure
"Audience Favorite": Animation Attack!

"Marvelous, Keen Loony Bin" from Lizzi Akana on Vimeo.

Germans in the Woods

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:16:00 +0000

Joseph Robertson was an infantryman in the U.S. Army during World War II, where he fought in the Battle of the Bulge. The stark black and white images in this short haunt the viewer, just as Robertson is haunted by his memories from that battle.

Credits:

Directed by: The Rauch Brothers
Art Direction: The Rauch Brothers
Background Painting: Iandry Randriamandroso & Tim Rauch
Producers: Mike Rauch & Lizzie Jacobs
Animation: Tim Rauch
Audio Produced by: Michael Garofalo

Music: Fredrik
Label: The Kora Records
Publisher: House of Hassle

Major funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Germans in the Woods from StoryCorps on Vimeo.

Curtains

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:09:00 +0000

This was my senior film for SCAD in 2008. It was all done by myself from concept to sound design. I did have help recording instruments which I later chopped and re-edited. Done in Flash and edited in final cut s as well as some live images at the end. Its been in a few film festivals including The Persistence of Animation at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and has won "best local student short" at Animation Attack. The story is different for everyone and the ending is subjective tot he viewer.

Curtains from amanda goodbread on Vimeo.

Orgesticulanismus

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:54:00 +0000

Mathieu Labaye's short-movie, Camera etc (Belgium, Liège): http://www.camera-etc.be
Great tribute to his father Benoît Labaye, suffered from a multiple sclerosis at 29 years old. Benoît Labaye had been confined to a wheelchair since age 40 and died at 55 years old the 04.22.2006, as a result of a pneumonia.

In the movie, you can hear Benoît Labaye speaking:

"I think it's by the movement you appropriate your own life. By the freedom to come and go, to have gestures of love, tenderness, anger, whatever. When you are deprived of movements, as I am and as a lot of other people are, I think if you want to survive, you must reinvent the movement differently. And so what happens inside my head isn't purely brain, purely intellectual. It's a way of recreating an inner space which is also my freedom."

"When you live a severe handicap, when you live absolutely still, dependent, you live, in fact, something that can't be shared, that can't be easily expressed, which you can't easily talk about. Because when two people talk, to be able to understand each other, they need to have a minimum of common experience between them, to speak of something they both know from some form of experience."

"Sure, the stillness, the handicap, brings you to the conclusion and to the gradual acceptance that there's a certain number of things that you can't do. But conversely I think it opens a whole bunch of new possibilities, notably with inner freedom, inner space, but also with the way you can come in contact, in relation with others.
I think there is in the handicap, in the disease, a lot of potentiality. The human being is inexhaustible at the level of desire, of energy, of inner strength. Ans it's something you discover with maybe more urge, more intensity, when you're deprived of movement."

http://www.proxiliege.net/index.php?page=article&id=859&idrub=24
http://www.neuroplanet.com/fr/index.asp?chap=nouv&schap=1
http://murielgerkens.be/spip.php?article55

court-métrage de Mathieu Labaye, Camera etc (Belgique,Liège): http://www.camera-etc.be
Magnifique hommage à son père Benoît Labaye, atteint d'une sclérose en plaques à 29 ans. Dans un fauteuil roulant à 40 ans, Benoît Labaye s'est éteint le 22.04.2006 à l'age de 55 ans des suites d'une pneumonie.

Orgesticulanismus (high quality) door Camera-etc

FRONG

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:20:00 +0000

By squirc

Made in my spare time, an average of one frame per day, over 4 years. This animation was created one frame at a time in Photoshop. The idea is that I would base every frame off the last one, just making a small change to it without any overall plan or direction. It's about the process and allowing my creativity to flow freely without any expectations.

The Astronomers Dream

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:04:00 +0000

When a hungry astronomer falls asleep while working on a problem, he discovers a solution not in outer space, but in the surreal food-chain of his subconscious mind.
An animated film by Malcolm Sutherland, with sound by Leon Lo. Made in 2009.

Life in Transition

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:39:00 +0000

"Life in Transition" is a visual and symbolic journey depicting the continual transofmrations of life from birth to death to re-birth.

Directed and animated by John R. Dilworth
Art Direction and painting by Andrew Covalt
Music by Masami Tomihisa
Effects Animation by Thomas Bayne

Rinky Dink

noreply@blogger.com (Headshake) — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:31:00 +0000

"Rinky Dink" by John R. Dilworth

A post-modern fairy tale on finding "true love".

For more films by John Dilworth, see http://www.stretchfilms.com.