Impressing stop motion: Out of a forest

Another breathtaking animation short, this time found from Cartoon Brew.

"Tobias Gundorff Boesen’s Out of a Forest is a stop-motion effort out of Denmark’s The Animation Workshop, the same school responsible for Vegeterrible, which was featured on the site a few days ago. A lot of Out of the Forest was shot on location in forests around Viborg, Denmark, and the presence of prim and proper bunnies in this natural setting lends the film a magical flavor. The film was animated by Katrine Kiilerich, Frederik Villumsen, Christophe Peladan, and Tobias Gundorff Boesen, and the song,” Slow Show,” is by The National."

Out Of A Forest from Tobias Gundorff Boesen on Vimeo.

Two not very bouncy bouncing balls

The Maya springboard course is well on its way and I am learning new stuff every day. In this preparing course we only focus on the 3D tool itself - and I can tell you; there's points and dots and curves and tangents and a billion buttons and menus to get aquainted with - behind every simplest tiny little motion. I'm on a steep learning curve here. So I'm really happy to stick to these bouncing balls for another couple of months. :-)

The frogumentary

A "making of"-insight into Disney's "the princess and the frog".




Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RezHckg1yc
Part three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?videos=oEZ_8L5mbe4&v=cbZQ8CmL7yk
Part four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?videos=oEZ_8L5mbe4&v=ABroz5l2W9M
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The danish poet

This is the kind of story I love to watch. AND a kind of simple style of visual storytelling too, that I admire. I like the funny little observations that unfold in the situations of almost every scene... and being a scandinavian/nordic citizen myself there's so much that I recognize... This is an amazing little story.



WINNER OF THE 2007 OSCAR® FOR BEST SHORT SUBJECTS ANIMATION
A film by Torill Kove Narrated by Liv Ullmann
More on Torill Kove and the making of the film here

Inspiring animated music video

Have a look at this! Totally awesome!
Boing Boing presents a music video from the N.A.S.A project:
"Spacious Thoughts," featuring Tom Waits & Kool Keith, directed by
Fluorescent Hill.

My first scene ever in Maya...!

Hey, this is fun! After a couple of weeks of Maya training we still haven't seen one moving image... And that's really a good thing. There are TONS of stuff to learn in this 3D world, all new to me; modeling, shading, textures, rendering - and a ZILLION of menus and functions and commands.

Luckily I had SOME background in photoshopping and working in 2D... But there's is really more than enough new stuff to take in...

This little scene with Harry going to the outhouse was totally, from top to bottom, made by *me*. :-)