#animation

#animation

Glander and producer Payson made Boys Go to Jupiter with a tiny team and a $30,000 budget, showcasing the potential of indie filmmaking in animation.

Toonstar's proven ability to translate beloved stories into engaging animation, while keeping artists at the center of the process, makes them the ideal partner to bring Friendship List and other popular titles to new audiences in formats today's families love.

The 'Jazz Numbers' series, also known as 'Jazzy Spies,' was devoted to the numbers 2 through 10 and featured surrealistic animation and free jazz.

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson sports a budget curly wig backlit by a harsh sun as he introduces himself to the Polynesian heroine as the 'Hero of men ... ah, and women, too.'

Daniel Savage walked us through some of the material experimentations that led to the development of his distinct animation style. The designer demonstrated how his use of the pen plotter as more of a printmaking process has allowed his animations to become more than just films, shaping editorial illustration commissions for The New York Times as well as his new artist book Something Savage, published by Vitra editions.

The show follows Luz Noceda, a magic obsessed a 14-year-old Dominican-American human girl who accidentally stumbles upon a portal to the demon realm, known as the Boiling Isles. There she befriends - and becomes an apprentice to - a rebellious witch named Eda Cawthorne and starts studying at Hexside School of Magic and Demonics, despite not having magical abilities. The series aired on Disney Channel between 2020 and 2023 and was widely praised during its run for its writing, world-building and LGBTQ+ representation.

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At the event, you can expect talks from Daniel Savage, a multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and animator whose work often focuses on exploring modular animation systems and process-driven work. As well as that, the graphic designer Sarah Elawad will be joining the stage to share the process behind her ultra-neon and kitsch graphic work which celebrates beauty, love and her culture through experimental prints, garments, video art and collage.

"Roger Allers was a creative visionary whose many contributions to Disney will live on for generations to come," Disney CEO Bob Iger said in a statement. "He understood the power of great storytelling - how unforgettable characters, emotion and music can come together to create something timeless. His work helped define an era of animation that continues to inspire audiences around the world, and we are deeply grateful for everything he gave to Disney. Our hearts are with his family, friends and collaborators."

"I don't trust my imagination very much, so I often create works based on things I've actually experienced," says Hewa. "I want to animate those indescribable states where all sorts of emotions get mixed up together." In these micro-animations (that do well on social media, both because of their quick runtimes and windows into varyingly haunted and serene worlds), Hewa animates women dreaming of other realities, dinner guests locked into a perpetual state of laughing and empty streets lined with crooked houses.

BERKELEY, Calif. -- As a student at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, writer and director Alex Woo's goal was to make an animated feature film. "Every film student and every aspiring filmmaker, what they want to do is they want to make a feature film on the biggest scale. That was always the dream," Woo shares. After partnering with fellow animators Stanley Moore and Tim Hahn, Woo started Kuku Studios in Berkeley, California.

Could the students who snickered their way through those first SpongeBob adventures have foreseen the franchise persisting 25 years on, even after metabolising the most lysergic pharmaceuticals? Such longevity is partly down to extra-commercial considerations, in that the series has a capacity for tickling adults' funny bones possibly even those now fully grown students as well as the very young. Though it can't claim anything quite as unexpected as the David Hasselhoff cameo in 2004's The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie not so much a high bar as an unforgettably wonky one feature four thinks nothing of making Clancy Brown talk like a pirate while handing royalty cheques to Barbra Streisand and Yello. Anything can still happen in Bikini Bottom.

What do you want to express that you feel you can't in everyday life? That's the question composer and producer Max Cooper posed to his audience in hopes of unearthing some of the hidden parts of our shared emotional landscape. In return, he received more responses than expected, many of which tapped into passionate displays of pleasure and pain. "It was like finding a secret window into our collective psyches," he writes.

One clip shows a male character detach a "LomBike"--likely a parody of the IRL LimeBike rental service--from its docking station, turn it around, and sit on it. Seconds later, that same character returns the bike to its dock. The other two clips show a female character getting off a pick-up truck in two different ways. In the first, she swings her legs out from inside the bed and jumps down.

From pieces of everyday white paper, a series of delightful stop-motion animations illuminates how a simple material can be transformed into a sophisticated design. Created by Japenese designer Tomohiro Okazaki, who runs a studio called SWIMMING, "Paper Study" is a series of short intervals in which pieces of cut, folded, and sculpted paper appears to move on its own. Flat sheets transform into voluminous structures before collapsing back into a single plane, and arches, circles, and myriad other shapes move in sync.

"At its core, the work is about connecting with a parent in that unspoken, unconditional way, and about daring to take the past into your own hands in order to bend destiny," shares Hanaé. "Some might see the film as slightly experimental, especially in a world of instantaneity where you're expected to get your point across in seconds. But for me, that's precisely the point: the past, though unchangeable, is always being rewritten in the present."

In it, viewers get a closer look at Mabel, an animal lover who seizes an opportunity to use a new technology to "hop" her consciousness into a life-like robotic beaver and communicate directly with animals.

From cool concerts and shows to delightful animation and apple tart deliciousness, there is a lot to do and eat this weekend. So let's get to it, shall we? (As always, be sure to double check event and venue websites for any last-minute changes in health guidelines or other details.) Meanwhile, if you'd like to have this Weekender lineup delivered to your inbox every Thursday morning for free, just sign up at www.mercurynews.com/newsletters or www.eastbaytimes.com/newsletters.

From cool concerts and shows to delightful animation and apple tart deliciousness, there is a lot to do and eat this weekend. So let's get to it, shall we? (As always, be sure to double check event and venue websites for any last-minute changes in health guidelines or other details.) Meanwhile, if you'd like to have this Weekender lineup delivered to your inbox every Thursday morning for free, just sign up at www.mercurynews.com/newsletters or w.eastbaytimes.com/newsletters .

On Snotmotions subject matter Kate says: "The aesthetics of sport, the motion and movements in sport, and the fact that there isn't much talking is very interesting from an animation point of view." Tennis is known for powered pitches and anime-fight-scene-like grunting; a ripe playground for Snotmotion's N° 02 short. "Animating a tennis serve was surprisingly tricky, but it forced us to study the timing and rhythm of the action in a new way," Jordy says. Paying close attention to timing, both Kate and Jordy switch hats from animators to foley artists. "We sit upstairs, at our desk making all sorts of strange noises to match the scenes," says Kate.

But the film's singular animation style, watercolored, layered, and dreamlike, is its strongest hook, situating Wolfwalkers (2020) far apart from the CGI-heavy ilk and flattened, samey output proliferating in American kids' animation. Co-directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart of the Ireland-based studio Cartoon Saloon employed a mix of hand-drawn elements and digital tools to animate Wolfwalkers, pairing blocky city renderings of Kilkenny-inspired by medieval woodcuts-with organic, gestural depictions of the forest outside its stone walls.

It's been a hilarious and poignant journey exploring how our favorite team of legacy toys might respond to today's world of technology, and we're thrilled to share this first glimpse with audiences. Having the remarkably talented Greta Lee bring Lilypad to life - balancing a playfully antagonistic tone with humor and heart - has been incredible.

"The two of us are half-smart so I think the dynamic is we need two of us to just get to a baseline that most people have," Bush joked. "That's right," agreed Howard. "Left brain, right brain, yeah, it's a good point. In all honesty, we are a really good partnership because we trust each other and we share our sense of humor, our sense of storytelling."

We pride ourselves on being like the little engine that could, because it's very much in the ethos of Bay Area filmmaking, so we want to carry that torch forward,

"Au 8ème Jour," which translates to "On the 8th Day" in French, uses CG, or computer-generated animation techniques to create a three-dimensional world in a stop-motion style. A multitude of vibrant animals and landscapes appear sewn from fabric in the film's otherworldly realm, each tethered to a single piece of yarn that connects it to a kind of central energy force-a vibrant, tightly-wrapped skein in the sky. But when mysteriously dark tendrils of black fiber begin to leech into this idyllic world, families and herds must run for their lives.

Global creative company Buck has joined with LinkedIn to give a visual refresh to the platform's in-app milestone moments. Described as "a big glow-up" by LinkedIn's director of product design Audrey Davis, the redesign includes a new suite of animations that hope to make celebrating on LinkedIn a more expressive and engaging experience. Prioritising inclusive character representation, creative metaphors that "connect across cultures", and the blue of the LinkedIn brand, these new illustrations capture a range of milestones and emotions.

They like how he thinks, they like how he talks, and the jokes he makes. People can tell it's not a decision made by a committee. It's this one person's sense of humor. Probably not the best sense of humor, but it's his sense of humor. Doing this animation, I need to bring that ethos.