Sand Animation This time I have watched another sand animation which has no title at all. This time it was created by Ilana Yahav. Her skill with creating beautiful images with sand is terrific! She shows how to create animals just by flicking her wrist and pushing sand around. There was not much of an animation but her art was great! But overall I must give it a 3 out of 5 because there was hardly any animation present in the film.
The flick that I have just seen is a music video which is entitled "Filter Factory". It is a song created by DEE, a singer-songwriter, DJ and multi-instrumentalist from Montreal. But the stop motion animation was created by Jean- Francois Dugas and a small team. The stop motion was great and the music was awesome! The pictures were taken in perfect timing and were placed in a manner in which it does not seem to be stop motion (is that possible?). Overall this music video is the first one I would rate, and I would be giving it a 5 out of 5 for the stupendous work.
The movie that I have just viewed is called "Seven Deadly Sins". It shows all the seven deadly sins in a kind of morphing matter. The flick was created by Mark Crawford by using sand animation. The film was great because it had very good picture transformation and the transition was very fluid. The only downside was that the models were kind of a blur and we could not clearly see what they were. The film scores 4 out of 5 stars for its animation.
The short film that I have just viewed is entitled "Sand animation (Animals)". It is a film based on various animals morphing. The movie was created back in the spring of 2005 by Miss Sigrid Astrup. Even though the transformations were not very smooth, it was still a good film. But the downside was the music, which did not go well with the film. Overall I would rate this movie 3 out of 5 stars for the good animation.
Rain The film that I have just watched is entitled "Rain". The film starts out with a man lighting a match and then swallows it (is that physically possible?!). Then he blows out the fire from his mouth to light up a candle. He then takes the candle and places it on top of a shelf to illuminate the entire room, he goes over to his table to resume what he was doing. He then starts to carve markings onto a piece of wood. He then brushes the wood shavings off it and places it in a bag with the rest of the items he made. He continued to create similar things til the candle ran out. Then he takes the bag, puts out the candle with his fingers and goes out the door. He poured the items onto a wheel barrow and brings it near a tree where the leaves have all withered. He digs a small hole in the ground and takes one item (which is actually a tombstone) and creates a small grave. Then a leaf that had just fallen from the tree and was picked up by the man and placed into the grave. And in the end it rained and showed a message " it rains because the universe weeps for all the fallen leaves of autumn".
This animation was created by Simon Streatfeild. The applications that he used was Wacom, the animation was very great throughout the film. Because the caricatures were well drawn and the transition of the pictures were flawless. Overall I would give it 4 out of 5 stars because of the excellent animation and good story.
The film that I have just watched has no name but is a short stop motion animation. This was created minilogue in 2006, the creator is unknown but he used whiteboard for his stop motion so it did not have any retakes. As we can see the film consists of a lot of things ranging from various animals to people. The animation was great because his caricatures were very well drawn and it did not have a lot of flaws. And the transition from one drawing to another was so smooth it felt like it was alive. Overall this stop motion animation gets a 5 out of 5 for its category and for great animation techniques.
The flick that I have just viewed is entitled "Toy Friend". We start off in a living room where a disabled child is playing with his toys. Then he throws his alien toy on the floor and heads to the table to free the girl toy from her cage. He then speaks a little dialogue of the superhero and the girl talking, then moves away from the table to pretend that the superhero is flying. As he was playing he was not able to notice the stairs and was about to fall, then suddenly the alien toy comes to life and goes over to the wheel to stop him from falling. Relieved from not falling down, he goes over the stairs and picks up the alien toy. He then brings the toy to the table and pats it on its head, and then picks up the superhero toy and goes away. Then the alien toy sits up and is delighted with itself as the girl toy comes over to show affection to it.
This film was created and animated by Silvio Toledo, a brazilian animator. This flick was great because it brings to life the saying "beauty in simplicity". Even though the story was simple, it was saved by the stunning 3D animation and the sound effects. The models had no flaws in them and their movements were very well created. Overall this animation would receive a 5 out of 5 stars.
The film that I have just viewed is called "Sally". The movie begins with Sally walking through the desert. He kept on walking til he found a tree, and when he approached it he saw a juicy red apple. So he decides to try and get it, he then notices a branch that has fallen from the tree beside it. So he picks it up and then goes up a rock and tries to swipe the apple with the branch. But after a few tries he has not yet swiped the apple. In his frustration he throws the stick and just stands on the rock. To his amazement the apple dropped and he was able to eat it. But after one bite, he turned into stone and thus was doomed. He did not notice that there were other people who also ate the apple and turned to stone because of him being too hasty. And in the distant horizon we could see another wanderer heading to the same spot as Sally did.
The animation was created by Hasan Ulukaya. He used 3D as his medium for this short animation. The models were created very well and the setting was also done beautifully. But the only downside of the film was the sound effects. Some sounds did not match the right timing or right moment for it, an example was the voice of Sally and the biting of the apple. But overall I would give it a 3 out of 5 stars for the good story and great animation.
War of the Worlds The film that I had just viewed is named "War of the Worlds". Just like the movie that Tom Cruise starred in, the movie has a similar plot but was set way back in the early 1800's. I will go straight to the point with reviewing this film because this is one of the worst animations I have ever seen so far. The creator said that this animation was created over 5 years ago and that he didn't know how to use 3D max and was his first attempt at an animation. Even with these reason, I would say that he should have really put more effort in his work. The animation was so bad that 2D pictures were way better than this. And that the transition of the frames and the movement of the models were to robotic and it was badly produced. I would give this 2 out of 5 stars, I would have given only 1 but I still considered the plot of the story
This film which I just viewed is entitled "Blast Off!", and it as a short summary of what the movie is all about. BlastOff! tells the story of how the worlds of reality and fantasy easily blend together in the fertile imagination of a young child, especially when supplied with creative toys and environments. The story begins at dawn with a child's wishful drawing of a space ship. During the day his father builds him a custom designed space shuttle bed and fills his room with toys. As the sun sets, one of the child's toys, a little green alien, comes to life and is excited pretending to pilot the space ship. As his imagination soon takes over completely, the room fades away and the shuttle bed blasts the little alien out into space for a wild rocket ship ride through the rings of Saturn. The alien finally comes crashing back to reality as the child returns home to find his room is a complete mess.
The animation was created by Michael Scaramozzino and his custom design of the space shuttle bed used in the film. This animation has won multiple awards and screened as an official selection in multiple film festivals. This animation is so good that it made me realize how incredible and powerful 3D films are. The models of every element in the movie was well designed and very well rendered to make it look so realistic. And to top if off the story was indeed a simple yet very interesting creation. With these, I have given it 5 out of 5 stars and a rare two- thumbs up to Michael for a job very well done.
This film is entitled "SOLO". It is about an old man who loves to take photographs. We see him taking random pictures such as a lamp post, birds, a dog, and even an old lady. But his actual reason for doing this was to create his own world using the shots he got. For awhile it seemed great for him, he was having a romantic dinner in his makeshift studio. But alas, the cardboard cut out of the old lady started to fall down and got burned a bit by the candle light. He tried to resume his dinner but it didn't feel any real, and because of this he cried. But suddenly the cardboard lady comes alive! She reaches out to the old man to comfort him. Then he becomes cardboard and everything around them also comes alive. The old man has finally become happy.
The animation was created by Master Internacional De Animacion Audiovisual and was directed by Ricardo Moyano, Maria Calatayud and Ysabel Castro in 2002. The movie was very touching and it was very good because the animation was excellent. The transition of frames was flawless and there wasn't a single miscalculation in the sound effects. The company utilized both 2D and 3D graphics which made it a top- notch film. Overall I would rate it 5 out of 5 stars because of the great plot and amazing animation.
The film that I have just viewed is entitled "The Real Survivor". It starts out in the middle of nowhere where we find a boy stranded on a sand bar with nothing else except some coconuts. After awhile he sees a big cola dispenser floating towards him. He was so happy that he was able to carry it onto the sand bar so he could get some cola. Lucky for him that there was a last can of soda pop inside the dispenser, so he placed his $1 coin into the slot to be able to obtain the cola. But it soon spits back out the coin, and he tries it again and again. After several tries he got so frustrated that he started to try and take the cola by force, but was still not able to. After a few moments he found that the dispenser had a cable in which it needed to be plugged in to work. But as he was about to lose hope the dispenser opened up and dropped down the cola. The boy was so happy that he jumped and danced to his delight from the triumph he had. But then, when he opened the can it spew out its contents thus leaving the boy with an empty can. Angered, he crushed the can and threw it and the dispenser back into the ocean.
This film was created by Eduardo Vieira. The quality of the animation was excellent because it used 3D graphics instead of the common 2D design. And the story was good for a short film. Overall this film would get 4 out of 5 stars in both animation and story.
The film that I have viewed for today is called "Juxtaposer". From the title itself we can picture what the film might be. The word Juxtapose is to place side by side or to compare each other. In this short film we see a woman sitting in the park alone, reading the daily newspaper. When out of nowhere a cat comes and jumps on her lap. The cat sniffs her for a bit and then growls at her, then the cat jumps beside her to lie and sleep. After a few moments a group of teenagers pass by doing "pasa mano" and the like. She tries to copy it but gets punched in the nose. Then a pair of stylish best friends pass by her, acting all so lady-like. She also tries to be like them by rolling her jeans up to create fake "pedals" but to no avail. Then a child passes by and seems to be lost. As she was about to try and comfort the child, his mother came and picked him up. Then out of nowhere comes a stranger who speaks of dazzling words and weird rhymes. It seemed that this person was a hopeless romatic who was trying to write a poem, then comes his girl friend and they kiss in front of the lady. After thinking for a bit she decides to be herself and picks up the cat and starts brushing it. She kept on brushing the cat until she was loved by it.
This animation was created by Joanna Davidovich in 2005. Her animation was pretty good despite the fact of average drawings and the lack of realism in her film. She didn't dwell too much on the sketches too much but concerned herself more on the plot of the movie. Overall the animation and story was excellent and would be rated four out of five stars.
The last animation that I watched for this week is entitled "Devil". The story starts somewhere in heaven, we can see a little devil flying up and reaching St. Peter's Gates. But as he touches the gates an alarm goes off, so he tries to look for a way to get in. Just then, a soul comes to the gates of heaven and the devil is forced to hide. As he was watching, the devil found out the way to enter into heaven's gates without tripping off the alarm. So he comes back wearing a fake halo around his head and bows down before the gates. It opens and he quickly enters it, after a few seconds he went it he quickly wrecks havoc and dismay in heaven. And is then kicked out once again for his devilish deeds.
The animation was created by Chris Magovern for his final project in Ex'pression College for Digital Arts in May of 2004. Even though the story was very simple, the visuals and animation was stunning. He had created such a masterpiece that involved very complex animation using 3D graphics. The little devil and the soul were created perfectly and the rendering was great. The animation was also very good because it didn't have any jumps or any errors. This is one of the best animations I have seen so far. I would give it 5 out of 5 stars.
The Season This animation is named "The Season". From the title alone we can already know what it is about. But because of the great skill the writers of this short animation had, they were able to turn it into a great film. The film start in late fall, where a tree stands and the leaves were starting to wither and die. We can see that the leaves, nuts, etc. had lives and were happy. After a few seconds we can see that beside a leaf, there was crawling a hungry caterpillar who had its eyes on the leaf. Lucky for the leaf that the nut had seen the caterpillar and shook the branch so that the caterpillar would fall down. And we could see that the nut was madly in love with the leaf. Then after a few days had past, almost all the leaves had fallen to the ground except for the last leaf and the nut. Then suddenly came a strong gust of wind and it tore the leaf from the branch and started to fall. Because of this the nut also shook and fell along with it. And when they fell onto the ground the leaf then wrapped aroung the nut to protect it from the snow. And when spring came, the nut had began to grow and would eventually become a tree.
The film was created by B Entertainment Animation Studios in 2005. The animation was not the excellent because we can clearly see the rough movements of the drawings and some errors in the film. But because the story of the film which was written by William Sikora III and Josh Echavarria, it turned out to be one great film.
This short film that I have viewed is entitled "Fridges". This was created by a Japanese independent animator named Fujio Tanabe. The story is about a busted up fridge who was dumped because it was of no use anymore but still wanted to be used again despite its inferiority. It tried desperately to be accepted by another but to no avail. When all seemed hopeless, a young woman carrying a lot of groceries came and stopped it from killing itself. She then brought it home with her and tried to fix it, after awhile she was able to fix the fridge. Because she had a bigger and working fridge now, she threw out her old and petite fridge. After serving its new found owner, the fridge was bothered by how she treated her old fridge. And because it felt the same feeling the fridge went after the owner's old fridge to try and persuade it to come back.
Fujio is a very good animator because he utilized 3D effects in his animation. The characters in his film were very much 3D modeled and were perfectly rendered to show no flaws. The only backdrop of his film was the fading/cutting of scenes in which he didn't get it right. Overall this animation would get 4 out of 5 stars for its good quality and storyline.
This short animated film that I have seen was created back in 1997 by the animation studio Pixar. The film starts in a park, Geri goes to a table and places a chessboard and he begins to set up a game of chess. It was already clear that he was the only one in the park that day but still decides to finish placing the pieces on the board. After awhile he takes a pair of glasses from his jacket and makes the first move to start the game, then he took the glasses off stood up to go to the other side to make a move. Then after a few seconds it seemed that he was battling another person, his own self! Every move he made was countered by his enemy until the only remaining piece he had was his king. Unsure what to do he faked a heart attack to try and distract his opponent. And it worked! When his opponent was trying to check on him if he was all right he flipped the board to make it look like he was winning. And when his opponent saw the board he didn't notice that Geri changed the board because he forgot what color he was. And so Geri's opponent lost and gave up a prize, his false teeth. This film was so great that it was able to win the 1997 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Pixar has produced great animated movies such as Toy Story (1995), A Bugs Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004) and Cars (2006). All of these movies have won numerous awards for animation and they are still coming up with even more films with even better animations. They have been breaking grounds of animation with the projects they have come up with. And this short film is one of them, taking a simple game of chess and turning it into a masterpiece of art and film. Pixar always provides the public with high quality movies that is sure to be enjoyed by everyone.
The short film that I have seen was entitled Kiwi!. The flick was about a kiwi bird who really wanted to fly but could not do it because all kiwi birds are flightless ones. Yet despite this, he found a way to fly because of his determination and creativeness. He climbed a really tall tree and started to bring up smaller ones on its side and nailed them to it, thus creating a fake forest. After completing this daunting task he then put on his pilot's helmet and jumped. As he was falling it looked like he was flying because of the forest that he nailed on the side of the giant tree. And for the first time in his life he was able to experience something that no other kiwi would ever experience, the ability to fly. Because of the overwhelming joy he was experiencing, he was able to cry a bit and then plunged into the abyss.
This short film was created by Doni Permedi for his Master's Thesis Animation. And because this animation was so popular it was able to win the "Best CG" award at the Channel Federator Awards. He created this using Maya and After Effects. The animation was very good because it didn't have any errors in the 3D creation of the model and that the flow of the film was flawless. The camera angles and the shots were excellent and the time in which he moved in for an extreme close up to see the tear from the kiwi was great.
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