Category: Animation (Page 3 of 4)

The Red Turtle

the red turtle poster

the red turtle

the red turtle

the red turtle

Yesterday, we watched the excellent animated film “The Red Turtle” together with the kids, shown as part of the Athens International Film Festival.

The film tells the story of a man washed up on a deserted island populated only by turtles and crabs. Everything changes when, in an effort to escape the island, he meets a red turtle. It’s a really great film,  for both adults and kids. It has no dialogues but that was no problem, it was actually a plus for our youngest daughter. The film touches on all the major life stages: life, death, rebirth, family. The direction, the animation and the watercolors are magical. The film is a co-production of the famous Studio Ghibli (of Totoro) and directed by Dutch-British animator Michaël Dudok de Wit.

Make sure not to miss it!

What if animals were round?

If all animals became round overnight, would their daily life still run that smoothly? This was the question the Swiss-German directing duo, Kyra Buschor and Constantin Peplos, were dealing with whilst working on the concept for the world of “Rollin’ Wild”, which originaly started as a series of four very funny clips. After the successful response, they promised to continue the series.

(thank you Alexandra!)

Moving light paintings

Arches by Lucea Spinelli / Moving light paintings

CHAIRS by Lucea Spinelli / Moving light paintings

Roof by Lucea Spinelli / Moving light paintings

Train by Lucea Spinelli / Moving light paintings

Interesting animations created by photographer Lucea Spinelli.  Spinelli experiments and creates moving light paintings (phōtosgraphé) using the technique of long exposure.

“Photography is the process of drawing with light, as it’s etymology implies: a compound of the greek words φωτός (phōtos) “light” and γραφή (graphé) “representation by means of lines” or “drawing”. Like a human eye, the camera receives impressions of light reflected off the world around us. When making long exposures, the film (or sensor) becomes a canvas for as long as the shutter is open, permitting light to act like paint on a brush.”

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Pixar in A Box – free animation courses

Pixar in a Box from Khan Academy

As a member of a Pixar-crazed family, it is very interesting that Pixar Animation Studios has teamed up with Khan Academy to release Pixar in A Box, a new free online resource, where through a series of great video lessons, interactive exercises and hands-on activities, students discover how the math concepts they learn in school enable Pixar filmmakers to work on things like Environmental Modeling, Character Modeling, Animation, Crowds, Sets and Staging, and Rendering. The program is designed for kids in sixth grade and up, but is available and accessible to all ages. Each part has a series of short videos explaining the practical use of math using an example from a Pixar movie, then the user can play around with an app online.

Great for kids to see the connection between the math they learn at school and their application in the cool world of Pixar.

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My Stuffed Granny

“Little Sofia loves her grumpy granny: even though she is always hungry and eats what little food they can buy. Her pension is the only thing keeping her and her father alive. To what extremes will they go to once granny is no more?”

My Stuffed Granny is a short animation with plenty of black humor, inspired by the current Greek financial crisis. Effie Pappa’s stop-motion animation, is not really a fairytale for kids, but an allegorical take on Greece’s younger generation who must become creative and persistent in order to build a better future for their country.

The Present

This short animation is so good and it’s no surprise it has won more than 50 awards.

I hadn’t realized Jacob Frey is the same director, who did Bob a few years back, a very funny animation about a hamster, that my kids loved watching again and again. We will probably see more of him, since “The Present” was only his thesis for Film Academy in Germany and since then he has gone to work for Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Based on a comic strip by Fabio Coala.

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