Hi all !
I have another thread running here asking for collage cut-out style animation links and it brings me to the question of;
What is the most unique style of animation you have ever seen?
How was it done? Sand? Fabric? Chalk? Paper cut-out? smoke?
I am sure you could come up with better examples than I can name.
So post your links here so we can all take a look and be inspired.
I would also welcome any more links to collage type animation on the web that is done in a childrens book illustration style.
Thanks :)
"The Street" Oil paints on glass, was one of the most unique pieces of animation I've ever seen.
Alexander Petrov jumps to mind, and the sand animators. There are so many, though.
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I think Frederic Back's MIGHTY RIVER is the most unique and beautiful film, I have ever seen.
The underwater sequences are drawn with prismacolor or chromacoulor pencils- they are really vivid!
Look at the credits and you will see this 20 minute masterpiece is drawn by Back ( in his seventies) and one assistant. AMAZING!
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must be the work of Ladislaw Starewitcz one of the greatest animators ever.
He animated his stopmotion tale about the revenge of a grasshopper cameraman using real insects(or were they very realistic models?)
what makes it truly unique is that the film is from 1911
when film making (let alone animation) still had to be invented
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i always loved the artists who scratch and paint directly to film. len lye's "free radicals" is a personal favorite but there are so many more who do some really amazing stuff.
and also the optical printing films are unique. sky david/dennis pies' films are incredible.
I don't remember the director or the name of the piece, but i once saw a stop motion piece using real people. It wasn't the best stop motion I've ever seen, but i thought it was pretty unique...
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I saw this in Bristol UK at the imax cinema.
Blown away.
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This is a really cool question.
I classify 'unique' as something that makes me go 'Holy freakin' WOW!' and makes my eyes pop out in awe. I would have to think on that one, but there is a South Korean film currently out called 'Wonderful Days' that blends miniatures, 2D, and 3D animation, splendidly. I have only seen the trailer for this and I hear the story isn't all that great, but just looking at it gives me goosebumps. I think it's already out on DVD, but only Region 3. They used to have a great website out, but unfortunately it's down. So here's the Internet Movie Database version.
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The last time this kind of feeling struck me was when I saw Das Rad last year. The animation was pretty regular stop motion, but the storyline blew my mind off!
I also love that short called Powers of Ten.
By the way, Starevicz used real insects with wire armatures around them. That movie is absurdly beautiful. There's another one where he uses animated stuffed birds.
I'm dying to see a short called Ryan, I saw a short part of it on AWN... it's about Ryan Larkin, and the movie was mounted with some audio from a real interview and then illustrated with very creative 3d animation. It's always great to see a new approach and look to 3d!
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For me michael DudokdeWit's Monk and the Fish was a real revalation since I had never seen watercolor's beeing used in animation before. Furthermore Richard Williams' the Thief and the Cobbler is still one of the most unique animated features from a graphical point of view. The op art style of some of the backgrounds combined with characters that appear to be flat (like a lot of the gards) and the hand animated camera moves are truly unique.
I also have a videotape with Chinese animation on it and it's all in a style very similar to chinese wallscreen artwork. You also have Daniel Greaves' manipulation which is a very unique combination between traditional, pixelation and stop motion animation as well as his film Flatworld.
I can keep on going like this forever so I leave it by these. I'm never really good at naming just one example cause I like a lot of very different things for different reasons.
Definitely the Brothers Quay. Street of Crocodiles. Very different, stop motion, nice use of objects, fabric and light. Love it.
Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
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I once saw a very brief clip of what looked like an animated Chinese ink painting (a boy riding a water buffalo in a rice field), but that was a long long time ago.
Jan Svankmajer's stopmotion work with clay, and food, and metal, etc.
Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase (the name of the director escapes me)
I know I saw a film that was made using a giant pin board (like the kind where you press your hand on the back to make an image of your hand in the front accuratly out of little metal pins.) That was amazing.
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It was probably 'Mindscape' by Jacques Drouin you saw.
And yes what a truly amazing technique!
it doesn't look at all like what you would expect, it lookes very much as if done in charcoal.
http://www.nfb.ca/animation/musee/drouin/html/en/portesouvertes_03/mclaren_03.html
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Since last year, I have an almost irrational love for Barry Purves' short 'Next' in which a Shakespearian actor performs bits of all the plays he's ever written in 5 minutes' time. Being an Aardman short, it's stop motion, of course.
'Harpya' is a Belgian short with a surreal and eerie atmosphere and therefore holds the weirdest kind of fascination for me. It mixes several animation styles. I think 'real life stop motion' describes its style best.
Since someone recently raised the topic of originality in another thread, I thought I'd resurrect this 2-year-old thread, which recommends some animation that will transport you to another universe. ;)
Hopefully people will have new suggestions. :p
Jan Svankmajer's latest "Lunacy" takes his stop motion meat/body parts to a new level. Very bothersome but very effective and definitely original.
Another Brothers Quay fan.
For a beautiful style, I saw stop motion using water drops moved into shapes for a Japanese children's show. Cool stuff.