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John Henry Picture Book Animation

I'm excited to announce the launch of a new animation I created with the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. It's the 50th anniversary of his children's book "John Henry" and we created a 6 minute animated read-aloud. It was a great experience working with his original art work and making a video that is in keeping with his style. Hope you enjoy!

Whale Facts

I wish I'd seen this animation by Drew Christie before reading Moby Dick last year. Learn about whales and more in "Song of the Spindle".

Tom Law’s 1000 Self Portraits Animation

Animator Tom Law drew 15 minute self portraits over the course of almost 3 years and put them together in an animation titled "I Always Look Angry: 1000 Self Portraits". It's cool seeing the evolution of his drawings over time.

Sliding down the Guggenheim

The James Turrell exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum gave me a chance to make a Vine animation of my daughters in the empty gallery bays.

Shooting Vines

Vine is a sweet little smart-phone app that allows you to shoot short video clips and post them immediately. What makes Vine unique is how short the clips are and how it records video. It only records when you press the screen and stops recording when you remove your finger, up to six seconds. You can start recording on the same clip by touching it again, creating loops of images. Jump cuts condense time, as you can see in the Vine I shot of skaters in our studio building. A tap of the screen will get you one frame and with multiple taps you can start making frame-by-frame animation. You can go Benny Hill-style with sped up reality or more painstaking hand-drawn cartoons. There are some fun, new video makers out there, such as the pencil sketcher Pinot and the wooden man adjusting Ian Padgham. The Vine app is free so try it out! The check out these tips from Mashable to make your Vines even better.

Stop Motion Graffitied Building

This video is a cool way to see a graffiti artist at work. The time lapse photography slides and pans around an abandoned factory as the artist Sofles sprays tag after tag in a frenzy of aerosol.

The Animated Doodles of Dan Berry

Here's a cute music video for Jim Guthrie's "The Rest is Yet to Come". Artist Dan Berry made a panoramic background with simple animations of watercolor drawings. The result is a slow pan across a landscape of musicians, leaves and fire.

He provides a peek at his process by posting pictures of the video in various stages of production. His main software tools are Photoshop and After Effects, along with a good scanner and watercolor paper. Dan Berry hosts a podcast where he speaks with cartoonists and others about their creative process. It's called "Make It Then Tell Everybody" and is available on iTunes.

Imagining Cars of the Year 2000

A world overrun with automobiles is the dystopian nightmare of the cartoon "Automania 2000" from 1963. So many cars have grid-locked that people have just been living in them for the past 5 years. The lively cartoon is a quirky anti-consumerist critique of 1950s excess. via Cartoon Brew Cross-posted on My Black Brick.

Chalk animation evolves

Nicholas Gurewitch of the Perry Bible Fellowship creates animations with chalk in this mesmerizing music video for The Spinto Band.

Animated GIF Stereograms

Stereograms set up flat, still images in such a way that they appear three dimensional to the viewer. In the mid to late 19th century photographers would shoot scenes using a camera equipped with two lenses a few inches apart. This would simulate our binocular vision and, when viewed through a stereoscope, would appear deeper and more lifelike. More →

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