mirrored tension

just noticed while watching a clip for oscar nominated animated short: "Even Pigeons go to Heaven"
that a popular technique to create more tension in a scene is to splice two events together and mirror the escalating tension. in pigeons, the two events are: a car chase and an old man trying to get a jar of something on the top of a cupboard. as the pursuing car gets closer to its target, the old man is closer to the jar. the tenuous nature of the old mans footing on the stack of books on the chair paralleled with the recklessness of the car chase gives a sense that the two events are about to crash together in one cataclysmic instant.

My Love

"My Love" (Moya Lyubov) by Aleksandr Petrov. oil on glass. click here

pnau "wild strawberries"

just found the latest PNAU video featuring my animation: wild strawbwerries
the bird, lightning bolt and diamond. well done james.

BROTRON

i was looking for atomic age reference material and i feel upon this guy. Brotron or Greg Brotherton is a artist/ sculptor whose work centres alot around the 50s and 60s atomic age style. works like "Electrolux Death Ray" an old vacuum cleaner re assembled to look like a photon powered demoleculariser ready to vaporise a planet at the flick of a button.

Acting in Beowulf

An interesting commentary on how far away animation is from "real life" through analysing Robert Zemeckis' film Beowulf.

"Beowulf" and the Uncanny Valley

author is Ed Hooks

2d production book

this could by my next animator's survival kit

Producing Independent 2D Character Animation: Making and Selling a Short Film

By Mark Simon

sony wave animation

three legged legs are responsible for the animation here. Kathleen Quaife is the traditional animator.

sony vaio animation