3D Models, Animation, Blender, Games Industry Ireland
Getting a little tired of 3D Pixar animation style or just looking for something a little different? This ‘old school’ cartoon ‘Moonbird’ is worth looking at.
I always enjoy hearing and see how other people came up with their concepts and how the approach their work. Canadian animator Cordell Barker (The Cat Came Back) talks briefly about his latest production ‘Runaway’. Check out his site to find out more here: http://www.nfb.ca/runaway
Nice timing, simple but effective use of Flash. Where can I see the entire 6 minutes?
Find out more about this production here.
“A short clip from Emma Lazenby’s BAFTA nominated short film, Mother of Many.The most dangerous journey needs a helping hand. Directed by Emma Lazenby. Produced by Sally Arthur for ArthurCox as part of Digital Shorts 2009. Commissioned by UK Film Council, South West Screen and 4mations.”
If you’ve studied animation at all it’s likely you came across Richard Williams name at some point. The Little Island is far from the classical animation Williams later produced. That’s not a criticism and it does not take away from this timeless production. I love the character design and the simplicity of the animation.
“The BAFTA winning animated film by animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit’s animation director). This was his first film and is a wordless engima of philosophical musings. Reminiscent of the 1950s modern animation of UPA. Video source provided by Orange Cow Productions.”
This is the first 9 minutes, you can watch the entire movie at Google Videos (for some reason WordPress won’t accept the Google video embed code…)
This one is well known to Irish people the world over and may more besides. Awarding ‘Give Up Yer Aul Sins’ made Brown Bag Films an Irish household name and you’ll be hard pressed to find a home that doesn’t have a copy of the DVD tucked away somewhere.
If I recall correctly from articles I read about it at the time of it’s launch, it was a side project for for the studio. The animation and look of the production fits perfectly with the amazing voice recordings of Dublin school children telling stories from the bible, recorded decades ago.
Brown Bag are probably Ireland’s best known animation studio (set up by a couple of ex-Ballyfermot students) and they have won many awards and been nominated for many besides this.
“Based on the original recordings taken by Peig Cunningham in Dublin schoolrooms from the 1960′s, (subsequently re-discovered and released by EMI record) this film dramatises the event as a TV crew arrive to record the children and we are treated to the story of John the Baptist told as only children can. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short at the 2001 Oscars.Give Up Yer Aul Sins has screened in almost 50 film festivals, including The Galway Film Fleadh (where it won Best Animation), Cork Film Festival (Best Irish and Best International Animation), Cartoons on Bay (Special Award for Original Idea), New York Comedy Festival, Boston Irish Film Festival, Aspen Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival.”
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Wow! Great idea, a story tree! This one brings back memories of layout class and the backgrounds in this production certainly have that classical animation feel. I loved everything about this short and can see why it won an award. Great story, nicely done.
“Created by Vancouver Film School student Stephanie Sim through the VFS Classical Animation program. It received the award for “Best Classical or Stop Motion Animation” at the 2006 CAEAA awards.”
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This is a lot of fun, again good simple concept and nicely done. It also gave me a few ideas for decorating my kids room 
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BlastOff!
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I can see why this one is so popular. The concept is taken from a simple quote (I think) and it just goes to show how easy it is to come up with an idea for your production. Keep it simple, let the animation tell the story and entertain. This is really enjoyable!
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Will add interesting short animations from around the web to this site soon.
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