Light paintings have been around for years, people create long exposures and paint their own picture using LED’s, flashlights and other illuminating tools. There are numerous amounts of videos out now showing light animations that would blow your mind. Plus I love some stop animation as you already know.
Music of the Week: Common “Universal Mind Control”
by
Marcus Lewis
Sat Jan 9th, 2010:
Some music is an acquired taste and some you just have no choice but to like because of the beat it lays down.
Personally I have song for everyone and some songs simply to get laughs out of friends and family. I’m not opposed to some (emphasis on some!) country music, love me some good ole caribbean reggae, dancehall music, baltimore club, definitely must have classical music in there too. Lots of R&B as well as old school hip hop and R&B can get the mood right, can’t turn away from pop and recently a little bit of rock. I have to place Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5 in their own category and I’m definitely not against some good folk music (going to see The Wiyos in a little over a week).
*The Robot is Pharrell
Today we bring you Common’s Universal Mind Control ft Pharrell. Read More…
An architect friend has been working with Joel Fitzpatrick, rumor is there should be a new site released soon with some of her work on there. Thought this was a pretty cool stop animation project…
It’s also been a while since I checked up on the Cracker Jack Gang. I hadn’t seen this one yet, check it out.
Ever see The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride or the new Coraline ? All were created in stop motion, you may be thinking, what is stop animation? Stop animation is frame by frame actions of miniature sculptures. Artists and animators physically maneuver these characters into their desired position, and each time moved a photograph is taken. These billions of photographs are then stitched together in order to make each movement seem as fluid as possible.
These are by far the best animation movies I enjoy watching. Don’t get me wrong, the realistic integration of computer generated imagery (CGI) like in transformers is amazing and incredibly impressive, but there is something about watching a movie such as Coraline, knowing each character is actually tangible.
If you get a chance to watch one of these movies I highly recommend it. Here are a couple “Making of…” videos on Coraline and The Corpse Bride which dive into what it takes to build these amazing films.
