20/1/2021 | Animation Task 1
1. 2D Painterly Animation Style
- This animation style is known for its prominant use of paint and other tools like pastel to achieve and more lifeful presence on screen. While this style may not have the highest frames per second and can sometimes look like a slideshow, the emphasis is on environment and colour the paints conjure and only sometimes does it ask you to fill in the blanks yourself. It is my personal favorite style of animation as it gives every single frame the masterpiece treatment which i personally find awe inspiring
Examples of animations with such styles are:
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Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
Produced by Mushi Production and Directed by Eiichi Yamamoto
(tw// sexual violence)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPzaIN23l4s
Fantastic images exist in this film and is a favorite of mine, though this movie is most guilty of being a slideshow in many parts.
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Alice in wonderland (1981)
Produced by Kievnauchfilm and Directed by Efrem Pruzhanskiy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oym9aw-Iso&t=374s
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Montage of Heck (2015)
Produced by HBO documentary films/Polder Animation and Directed by Brett Morgen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzYz8gdF730
Rotoscoping and beautiful environments bring to life the stories of kurt cobain
2. Stop motion animation
Growing up I was under the assumption that Stop motion was really computer animation due to how much control over realism the people over at Laika productions had with their craft. Everything changed when I saw behind the scenes footage of the sets of Kubo and how they put things together and animate. From that point on I saw it as one of the most important forms of animation even for its charm alone. Stop motion is fundamentally the animation of real world figures or dolls made of plasticine in sets that can be the size of a room! Many of us have seen Wallace and Gromit, but have you seen these movies?
Kubo and The Two Strings (2016)
Produced by Laika Productions and Directed by Travis Knight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1e_OdUzBeY
No discussion about stop motion is complete without a mention of Laika productions and the work theyve done to solidify the medium in our hearts as some of the best pieces of animation that have graced the big screens.
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Mary and Max (2009)
Produced by Melanie Coombs and Directed by Adam Elliot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEYKFw6nboY
Not as often talked about than its contemporaries, Mary and Max is an australian stop motion feature following the long distance friendship between a lonely girl and a man struggling with his aspergers.
The animation is full of character in how it chooses to make the characters quite ugly. For me this goes on to show how human this movie is by not glamorising people and their unaesthetic features
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The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
Produced by Rankin.Bass Productions and Directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbfgVEk-mxQ&list=PLZs0gQed9tMR9dwkMJlzOE6XWQTz6FKhL
A christmas classic, The Year without a santa claus is bursting with character from start to finish. It in my opinion is not as technically experimental as something like a Kubo, however whatever it may lack in animation, it most certainly makes up for in art style and charisma.
3. 2D/3D Blends:
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Bigtop Burger (2020)
Directed and Produced by Worthikids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyCagepF_T4
Bigtop Burger is the passion project of musician, artist, and animator Worthikids. The show is made using a mix of the 2D and 3D features of Blender and this sense of space given using these techniques is very evident in the sheer quality of the finished product. If anything is telling you that 3D has very little charisma, then you havent seen Bigtop Burger
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Amazing World of Gumball (2011)
Directed by Mic Graves and Produced by Boulder Media/ Studio SOI
The Amazing World of Gumball is the first example in my head that uses 3D worlds to facilatate 2D characters, but it takes that fact one step further by also being the home to different mediums of characters such as sock and felt puppets, CGI characters, completely different art style characters and so much more.
