Category: digital art

Buster Keaton, “Neighbors”: Film History Series

Buster Keaton Remix from “Neighbors”, December 22, 1920 Release Date, Length: 17 minutes

“Neighbors” was a two reel silent film produced by Joseph M. Schenk for Comique Film Corporation. Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline wrote and directed. The film was photographed by Elgin Lesley and Metro Pictures was the distributer. The story followed the romance between the boy, Buster Keaton, and the girl, Virginia Fox, who lived in neighboring tenant buildings. Keaton’s actual father played the role of the boy’s father in this film.

The silent film, without any added soundtrack, is in the public domain and can be viewed here: https://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/buster-keatons-neighbors-1920

Reblogged with thanks to http://ensalada-de-lengua-de-pajaritos.tumblr.com

Walk the Dog

 

“Dame mit Hund (Walk the Dog)”, from Talking Animals on Vimeo

Directed and animated by Sonia Rohleder.
A woman walks her dog in the park, where she meets a man she would have liked to avoid.

  • Sounddesign: Michal Krajczok
  • Animation: Sonia Rohleder and Veronica Solomon
  • Voices: Ivan Baio, Alberto Picciau, Francesca Pili, Ivana Mescalchin

Talking Animals is a collective in Germany of award-winning professionals in animation and sound design/music, united as Talking Animals since 2009. They make short films, music videos, animated documentaries, animation for advertisement, explanatory movies. Their styles range from artistic 3D, over cutout and 2D drawn animation to analogue stop motion under the camera. Their site address is http://talkinganimals.de.

(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Steven K. Simons and Sonya Nevin

Steven K. Simons and Sonya Nevin, Gifs from “The Panoply Vase Animation Project’

Steve K. Simons and Sonya Nevin are in Westminster, England. The Panoply Vase Project site is: http://www.panoply.org.uk

Steve Simons has been making vase animations since 2007.  With a history in software engineering, Steve studied multimedia production and design before becoming a freelance animator.

Sonya Nevins is a Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton in London.  She did her doctorate on ancient Greek warfare at University College Dublin.   She has worked and volunteered in the Ure Museum, the UCD Classical Museum, and the Royal Museums Greenwich.  Sonya’s research and teaching interests include religion, warfare, and historiography.