Tag: animation

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.

Mickey Mouse Christmas

Walt Disney’s 1932 “Mickey’s Good Deed”

Early in his career, Mickey Mouse starred in the 1932 Christmas themed “Mickey’s Good Deed”, an animated black and white short film that was released during the Depression years. This film has resurfaced throughout the years and was re-issued to theaters in 1974. Released just prior to Christmas on the seventeenth of December in 1932, “Mickey’s Good Deed” was directed by Burt Gillett who had overseen many of Disney’s short subjects, including the 1933 “Three Little Pigs”. 

The voice of Mickey Mouse was provided by Walt Disney himself, a role he performed until 1947. The voice of Plute in this film was done by Pinto Colvig, known for being the original voice of Goofy. Although originally in black and white, it was eventually colorized for future showings. Released in home video compilations, it was also retitled for some releases as “Mickey Plays Santa” and “Mickey’s Lucky Break”. 

In addition to the warmth and humor in “Mickey’s Good Deed”, there are also scenes involving orphaned kittens in a dilapidated house and a scene in which Mickey is forced to sell Pluto to a family of pigs so he can care for the kittens. Of course there is a happy ending as Pluto runs from the pigs’ house carrying their turkey dinner, and later emerges through the snow to his Mickey. As they eat their turkey dinner, Mickey declares “Merry Christmas” to Pluto.

Tyler Haywood

Tyler Haywood, “Hesitation” from His Series “Daily Gif”

Tyler Haywood is a freelance 3D artist currently living and working in Los Angeles, California. He has a background in traditional animation thechniques and experimental film making. His design challenges involve crafting dynamic camera animations, establishing intelligent compositions, and creating focus driven motion.

He has directed, done animation and design for clients: HBO, Cinmax, the NFL, Audli, the NBA, Toyota and others. He is also the owner of the longest running every day GIF blog on Tumblr: four years.

Gif reblogged with thanks to his GIF blog: https://angulargeometry.tumblr.com

Ash Cox

Three Endless Loop Computer Graphic Gifs by Ash Cox

Ash Cox is a graphic designer living and working in Australia. His creative studio, ALTITXDE, is based on the Sunshine Coast and focuses on art, design, and future culture. .

“Working in a range of disciplines and using a variety of media, I believe design is our most powerful tool and feel equally as comfortable immersed in an illustration as in a 3D environment. My love of variation in the design process allows for a unique aesthetic to emerge that covers multiple facets of design.”   -Ash Cox