Stop Motion Animation: De la Flora Appale'

This is a quick stop motion, object animation, test I did using my digital camera. I then took the image sequences and imported them into After effects and then I created my own treatment as to give the film its old vintage look. (sound track with film)

Kinestasis and Collage

Kinestasis: varying camera movements over images
Commonly used in documentaries and historical narratives


Powers of Ten: Charles and Ray Eames, 1977
Wonderfully creative use of kinestasis. In this example the majority of the images are still images and just scaled larger or smaller as to create the feel of moving away or towards a subject.



Black History in 60 Seconds: Circa 1972
The first commercial to use the Kinestasis technique developed by director Chuck Braverman. The spot was conceived, co-written, art directed and produced by Allen Kay, CEO of Korey Kay & Partners advertising, NY.





Collage:Assembling various object together to convey symbolic or suggested relationships
Frank Film: Frank Mouris, 1973
made up of images from magazines that he liked or meant something to him from his life up to the present time.
Won Oscar for his work

Motion Graphics: Movie Titling and Broadcast Motion Graphics

Trish and Chris Meyer are long time After Effects users and the authors of the Book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects. There website called Crish Design here is a nice example of their work from past and present times.
Looking at their portfolio page under the Broadcast slide show you can see a nice example of the Digital Scrapbook style animation they created for the show entitled "Free Ride". Their work is very clear on how layers, masks, blend modes, and transitions play a vital role in motion graphics.

Other movie title work that is a must see include the following by designer: Source Motion Graphic design by Jon Krasner
Saul Bass

• The Man with the golden Arm, 1955
• Psycho,
• It's a Mad, mad, mad, mad world,
• Anatomy of a Murder, 1959
• Carmen Jones, 1954( his first title for film)
• Vertigo,

Fris Freleng

• The Pink Panther, 1963

Maurice Binder

• Dr. No
• License to Kill

Terry Gilliam

• Monty Python Opening title to T.V. show
• The Life of Brian,
  

Richard Alan Greenberg

• Superman, 1978
• Family Business,, 1989
• Flash Gordon, 1980
• Altered States, 1980
• Another You,1991
• Death becomes her, 1992
• Executive decision,1996
• FoxFire, 1996

Pablo Ferro

• DR. Strangeglove,1964
• The Thomas Crowne Affair, 1968
• A Clockwork Orange, 1971
• To Die For, 1995

Kyle Cooper

• Se7en, 1995
• Spider-Man, 2002
  

Harry Mark: Pioneer for Television Broadcast Graphics learn more here

• ABC, NBC Broadcast graphics, Movie of the week openers,

The art of the title website features great Movie title work

Saul Bass: King of the Moving Title

Bass on Titles is a great education of how to think about titles and to tie in all the psychological elements that ties visual images to emotion and connecting the concepts of the movie in with the motion graphics.




Oceans Eleven Title:Saul Bass


Around the World in 80 Days: Saul Bass, 1956


It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World Title Sequence :Saul Bass



The Doors Movie tile: Saul Bass


Here is a large list of Movies that Saul has had a hand in:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000866/filmogenre

More on Saul Bass as a Graphic designer. See the connection between a motion graphics aretist and a graphic designer?
They both, A motion graphics artist and a Graphic designer, distill ideas down to the simplest forms so that an image becomes instantly recognizable, Memorable, and emotionally connected. Look at all the symbols he created that we now consider standards and do not think twice about them being a symbolic representation of a corporation that embodies a companies products and earned the public's trust.

Motion Graphics: Motion Graphic Examples

Psycho, Saul Bass, 1960
Early motion graphic style used in Movie title sequence.
Saul Bass is considered king of animated titles
This motion graphic is visualizing urban paranoia and broken Psyche (letters slide on the screen and fracture)





Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Yellow Submarine, George Dunning, 1968
Developed by an experimental artist
Early form of the music video
Rotoscope was used to from old movie clips of Fred Astaire dancing with Ginger Rogers
Those images were painted with out concern for continuity . This creates a magical fluid effect as the character move through color





Pencil Dance, Chris Cassidy, 1989
Experimental Animation
notice the simple color scheme:Greyscale
Creative usage of simple shapes
Nice examples of leading the eye around the screen but always leading us back to near center. Music matches the fun motion on screen, Nice use of line weight to create the illusion of depth and distance as object come towards the screen
and pass by.




Monocodes, Alexander Rutterford, 2000
Nice Motion Graphic example that utilizes sound, color, light effects in a technique similar to the paint on Film techniques of norm McLaren.
Notice the intense use of blur and glows to create a futuristic visual display that excites the senses. Designing with digital light and sound.
Notice the perfect sync with audio track.
Notice limited use of screen space but visually powerful because of color and motion.



Bleip: No, Pleix, 2001
Very modern looking Motion Graphic with sound. Notice the design and the creative use of time to move in sync with the music. Watch for the use of background colors as text colors. Its' a nice layering effect and a simplified 3-4 color palette. Also, notice how there is contrasting colors, Grey on bright green, that creates emphasis and focal point. Notice how there are simple silhouetted shapes that "orbit" around the anchor point and basically have simple motion.





Down With Love, Ron Diamond (Acme Film Works)2003
Great example of Saul Bass influenced motion graphics. Notice the color and modern styling s, and The way that all the scenes connect to each other. Lots of symbols that are related to the theme of the movie, music and color treatments within the film itself.

Cut out animation test 1

Here is a simple cut out animation test

Cutout, Sand, paint on glass Animation:Black Soul, Martine Chartrand, 2000

Black Soul
Martine Chartrand, 2000
Paint on glass














Click to view film from national Film Board of Canada website

Pinscreen Animation: Mindscape, Jaques Drouin, 1976

Mindscape, Jaques Drouin, 1976
Unique animation technique called pinscreen. It's a screen with thousands of pins that can move in and out with shadows.
Click to view film from national Film Board of Canada website

Cutout, Sand, paint on glass Animation: The Sand Castle, Co Hoedman, 1977

The Sand castle, Co Hoedman, 1977
Puppet with Sand Animation
Notice textured design created with sand














Click to see film from national Film board of Canada

Cutout, Sand, paint on glass Animation: The Street, Caroline Leaf 1976

Caroline leaf, 1976
Paint on Glass














National Film Board of Canada Click to view film from website

Cutout, Sand, paint on glass Animation: The Owl that Married a Goose, Caroline Leaf 1974

Sand Animation




National Film Board of Canada

Cutout, Sand, paint on glass Animation: Claire De Lune Espangnol, Emile Cohl, 1912

Animated moon by using cut out animation techniques
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Animation Labs: Claymation

This is the second group lab that the students completed. They were given a storyboard which gave them the task of animating a ball of clay entering the scene and then transforming into three distinct shapes and then leaving the scene.
Project completed 9/16/2008



StoryBoards used in lab:

Puppet Animation Part 2, Tim Burton: Vincent 1982

Tim Burton
Disney studio animator
Disney did not k now what to do with him and let his contract run out ( same as John Lasseter)
Directed Pee Wee's big adventure

Puppet Animation, Jan Svankmajer, Flora, 1989

Jan Svankmajer, 1989
Czeck surrealist puppet animator
Wildly imaginative, utilized combinations of puppets, humans, stop motion, live action
He Inspired Brothers Quay, Tim Burton

Puppet Animation, Part 2, Jan Svankmajer, Dimensions of Dialogue, 1982

Animation Labs: Object Animation

Spring 2009 Object Animation Lab:

Stop Motion animation: Meat Love Jan Svankmajer 1992

Wildly imaginative Surrealist
integrates stop motion, live action, Puppets, ...
Inspired other artists like Tim Burton

Stop motion Anmation:Picnic with Weisman Part 2; Jan Svankmajer 1969

Part 2 of Picnic with Weismann
By jan Svankmajer 1969

Stop motion Anmation: Picnic with Weisman Part 1; Jan Svankmajer 1969

Stop Motion Animation Composition 1 (Themis) Dwinell Grant 1940

Stop motion Anmation: the Impossible Map 1947

http://www.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/films/film.php?sort=title&id=14229

Link to national Film board of canada site to view Animation

This is an excellent example of the use of stop motion animation in an educational way.
by Evelyn Lambart ( who worked with Norm Lambert) 1947
This animation is from the natuional film Board of canada website