Hombre Mcsteez uses transparent animation cels to add his quirky and humorous animated characters into real world situations. His little monsters and cute creatures interact with the environment that is seen behind them, through the transparent cel. Mcsteez uses a method of animation known as stop frame or stop motion animation. The way that he’s […]
Qing Han, aka Qinni, is an artist from Canada who works in both traditional and digital art mediums. When creating a painting with traditional methods, he leans towards watercolor paint, creating emotive manga scenes with an artistic flair. When working in a digital art format, Qing likes to work in Painttool SAI, Corel Painter and Photoshop CS4. […]
Birdbox Studios brings the world another funny animated short film with “Carpark”. This humorous look at the psychology of your average Joe and the relationship between humans and dogs has the same understated humor that Birdbox revealed in “Wildebeest“. For more funny animations by this studio, visit the Birdbox website.
Cinemagraphs is a New York based company compromising of Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg. This artistic duo combine photography and animation to create images that are more than simply a photograph. Each GIF animation brings the scene shown in the image to life through the movement of one or more elements. In some images, it […]
“Alma” is a short and spooky animation directed by Rodrigo Blaas. The character designs, animation and overall rendering of the film are beautiful, adding to the surprising story line. The film uses no verbal cues to tell the story, instead utilizing the quiet intent of an ambitious child to tell the tale. You can learn […]
Mike Klim, Stanley Moore, Dominic Pallotta and Mikey Sauls create a cute animated short in which an adorable armadillo is chased by a hillbilly hunter and his dog.
Using a whiteboard and erasable marker, Jonny Lawrence creates a stop frame animation in which he interacts with his animated character. Lawrence’s left hand becomes the nemesis for an animated warrior who was drawn and erased over and over by Lawrence to create the animation. Take a look at more videos by stop motion animator […]
Animator Steve Cutts shows how man has gone from creating simple tools to taking over the world with technology. This animation was created with Flash and Adobe After Effects.
Ariel the mermaid takes on a cheeky statue of a little boy who piddles in her pond. Summoning her father, the king, and Sebastian the crab, Arial goes to extreme lengths to stop the widdling work of art from polluting the water. (This is a GIF animation and may take a few moments to load.)
Nude art model Clelia Rinaldi poses for ten artists who sketch her from specific vantage points in the room. Combining their sketches into a stop motion animation allows viewer’s a unique vantage point of the artist’s model; we can see her from every angle in the room and yet the video’s view remains stationary. The […]