This video serves as beginner’s guide to the world of Czechoslovakian animation. I discuss filmmakers such as Jiří Barta, Jan Švankmajer, Jiří Trnka, and Karel Zeman.
This video serves as beginner’s guide to the world of Czechoslovakian animation. I discuss filmmakers such as Jiří Barta, Jan Švankmajer, Jiří Trnka, and Karel Zeman.
Member of the International Jury Lucija Mrzljak talks about her life in Estonia and Estonian animations and how the jury worked together to choose the award-winners of Primanima.
Acclaimed animation directors Péter Vácz and Joseph Wallace led an intensive four day stop motion workshop as part of the PRIMANIMA World Festival of First Animations in Budapest (Oct. 2017). Twelve international participants joined the directors to learn the practice and theory around their methodologies of creating cinematic puppet animation from simple materials.
Four individuals from different creative disciplines talk about how they got into VR, how they use it, and how it changed their creative processes and thinking.
This is what it was like being an animator on Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget–my personal behind-the-scenes.
My films are abstract in the way that I use improvisation, intuition, and experimentation as methods of development. But my films are also emotional responses to ideas, materials, images, and sounds. In that sense, even my most visually abstract films have a human presence in them'.
Welcome to my channel! In addition to making flipbooks, I am a stop-motion animator and have worked on movies like ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link, and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. I fell in love with animation as a kid and have been doing it ever since.
A look into the making of animation for my recent short film "Translation Office"
Joanna Quinn talks us through the journey of a scene of Affairs of the Art from Script to the Screen, paying special attention to her unusual way of working out the mouth shapes!
A conversation with Pritt Parn, a legendary Estonian animator, a recipient of the ASIFA Life Achievement Award, six-lifetime achievement awards from international festivals, and has had over 50 solo exhibitions in various European countries over the past 35 years.
New this year, our TIFF Kids International Film Festival Master Class is a unique opportunity for Industry delegates and film students to learn from animation industry pioneer Peter Lord. Peter Lord is co-owner and Creative Director of Aardman, which he co-founded with his long-time collaborator David Sproxton in 1972. As a director, Lord has been honoured with two Academy Award® nominations for Best Animated Short, the first in 1992 for Adam, and again in 1996 for Wat's Pig. He has also earned BAFTA nominations for Adam, The Amazing Adventures of Morph, and War Story.
The movie tell about dinosaurs, people and life in general.
Interview with Leon Vidmar, animator and author of the Farewell exhibition.
This video serves as a beginner’s guide to the world of Hungarian animated cinema. Films discussed include Son the White Mare, Cat City, Johnny Corncob, Foam Bath, White Plastic Sky, Ruben Brandt Collector, Kidnapping of the Sun and Moon, and many more.
Animation is team work and Joanna Quinn often gets asked how she is able to keep her style when working with other animators on my films.
Bret Battey’s “Estuaries” series of audiovisual compositions (2016-22) and two additional installations were based in part on the exploration of unique algorithmic approaches.His OptiNelder video filter visualises mathematical optimisation processes applied to video or mathematical “terrains”. His Nodewebba software links mathematical-feedback pattern generators to help create emergent musical behaviours. Battey discusses how these tools were part of his investigation of his idea of “fluid audiovisual counterpoint” and finding fruitful intertwining of “event and object” thinking and “continuum, texture and gesture” thinking in combining music and image.
How is Sony Pictures Animation becoming the GOAT of 3D animation? Learn how award winning movies such as The Spider-Verse, K-pop Demon Hunters, & GOAT utilize Autodesk Maya and industry workflows with keyframe animation, rigging, and more!
A short animation inspired by Nastya Fateeva choreography and "Dostochka" by DakhaBrakha, with step by step process.
In this masterclass Éva Darabos will discuss why the block of flats areas are so important for her and will offer a glimpse into where her inspiration was coming from to create her award-winning short animation, Bye Little Block! which received the Best Design Award at The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), and won awards in Poznań and Barcelona. She will share her personal experiences about how the whole project started and how the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest and her crew helped her to develop the original idea into a graduation film. There are many aspects to discuss: technical steps, adapting to a new role, teamwork, communication. Later, she will give a fresh and retrospective insight to her student years at MOME Anim. At the end she will share her feelings about film festivals, the afterlife of Bye Little Block! and her future plans and projects.