Professional Practise 1: Let Me Entertain You! (Study Task 4)

Professional Practise 1
Study Task 4: Let Me Entertain You!

A compiled list of 12 Animations from around world and which use different media to entertain

First Bloom from Wintersweet Animation Studio on Vimeo.

A 2D Animation made in TV Paint, I thought the art style was beautiful and the story. The cinematography made for interesting and complex shots within the animation.

• Directed and animated by Tingting Liu, a Chinese female animator from Laika Studios.

CONSTRUCT from Kevin Margo on Vimeo.

A 12 Minute animated short, The "production of CONSTRUCT was to speed up the CG workflow and mirror a live-action production and took advantage of the latest advances in virtual production technology that allow filmmakers to create a feature-grade film without the budget or resources of a major studio."

• Kevin Margo's Sci-Fi film project, whom also worked on Destiny 2 VFX, Tom Clancys’: The Division, The Elder Scrolls
• Based in Blur Studios, in California

The Icebook (HD) from The McGuires on Vimeo.

A process animation, showing use of pop-up books and projection to tell and create a story. Use of mixed-media, by The McGuires, British Multimedia Artists based in Hull

The Last Film is a Student Film made entirely in a traditional 2D media. Albert Val Boix was a student at Southampton University in the UK

Crow: The Legend is an upcoming VR Animation, produced by Baobab Studios, based in California. I decided to include this in the list, despite not being completed, as it uses a storybook style, but incorporates Virtual Reality for storytelling purposes.

The Tale Teller is an animated short produced by Josiah Brooks, made in Adobe Animate and Photoshop. Josiah is a freelance animator based in Australia, who works mainly on Youtube as an artist.

This was an animation I found on Youtube when I was exploring cut-out and traditional animation. I included this in the list as it used a range of mixed media and is less conventional than previous animations presented on the list

The music video was animated traditionally and digitally, using Photoshop by Jonah Primiano, living in LA. I included this in the list to show the range of purposes Animation can be used for, such as for the music video.

Coldplays’ music video for Strawberry Swing combines 2D traditional animation with Pixilation. It was directed by Shynola, based in London

I Have Your Heart is a cut out animation, which started in New York City, before the project became more world-wide when animators from Australia worked on it also. The characters were drawn traditionally, then scanned in as moveable puppets in Photoshop, then printed on stock-card, crafted into standing sets.

TINK by Mr Kaplin from Mr. Kaplin on Vimeo.

An experimental CGI Animation made in Cinema 4D, it shows how animation can be brought to life/ experiments can be brought to life through sound.

“Soggy Flakes” is an animation I found on Skwigly, a stop-motion film, shot in Dragonframe and composited in After Effects. I chose to include this because of the exceptional character designs and puppets featured in this film. It is directed by the Affolter Brothers, made in Canada.

As an additional animated short I found, Kitbull is both moving and an aesthetically beautiful animation of a cat and dog finding friendship. It addresses issues such as cruelty to animals and misunderstanding. I love the stylistic choices used by Pixar, directed by Rosana Sullivan and Kathryn Hendrickson.

Overall, in the research process to find Animations which are made to entertain, it was quite easy as a lot of animation produced is for entertainment and storytelling. What I struggled most with is finding animations with mixed media, however with further research I found that most of them utilise this process. For example, Kitbull used a mixture of both 2D and 3D animation, as this was used in the backgrounds.  I would like to explore mixed-media in animation further in my research.