Stop. Action. Animation. Stop.

Found this great explanation of how they made the movie Fantastic Mr. Fox, directed by Wes Anderson. I really enjoy his aesthetic (Royal Tenenbaums, Darjeeling Limited etc) and how it carried over into stop action animation with puppets. He has a very distinct style.



Fantastic Mr Fox. 621,415 frames taken. This is how:

http://www.makingof.com/happening_now/media/fantastic-mr-fox/cutting-edge-fox/167/666

GW

shortz

Saturday, some Oscar nominated animations were shown at Amherst Cinema so I got to see some funny shorts including this one:




Also got to see this (The Lady and the Reaper or La Dama y la Muerte):



A lot of the films were cute and funny (French Roast, A Matter of Loaf and Death [Wallace and Grommit], Partly Cloudy by Pixar), but the others were surprisingly disturbing (Runaway, Logorama) or emotional (The Kinematograph). Highly suggest you check them out. Interesting to compare the selection by animation style.

and when I see you, I really see you upside-down:

stumbled upon this animation made of thousands of drawings. strangely calming.

Eat PES

My beating heart:

an animation by PES

Crush

Orange Crush from Rebecca Yasick on Vimeo.

A day in the life of a fruit. Life bites.