We all love a doss on Fridays don’t we? Especially after a butt-clenching Thursday deadline that you made…
So here’s a couple of nice animations for you to watch on your well-earned Friday work-avoidance:
The Reward from The Animation Workshop on Vimeo.
Maybe everyone had seen this already, but I only saw it for the first time the other night.. a great little extra at the end of a Simpsons episode, where they go all Edward Gorey.. Brilliant!
The only online clip I could find had subtitles, so we may be asked to remove this at some point.. until then, enjoy..
Riki Blanco is one of the most interesting illustrators working in Spain today. He is also really versatile. His new book which he has not only written and illustrated but developed and even done its soundtrack is now free to download. Check out the trailer!
You can download Touché! (English version available) or watch it here
The Blog of Kells - Cartoon Saloon‘s production blog for their Oscar-nominated film The Secret of Kells – was a fascinating 8 year read into the behind the scenes of making an animated feature film from start to finish, warts n’ all! So I’m delighted to discover that they’ve created another production blog for their current feature – Song of the Sea (of whom Scamp’s very own mr steve mccarthy has recently joined as part of the key background team).
Thank you Jennifer Farley for making us aware of this nice little animated poem about the wonders of being an illustrator.
Illustration (The Finest Occupation) from Studiocanoe on Vimeo.
It’s the work of Temujin Doran, who wrote it in his final year of art school as ‘a fictitious congratulatory letter written by a proud tutor to a recent graduate’. But what really stands out are the beautiful illustrations – each with a sense of quirk, as some have pointed out, that would put you in mind of our own Alan Clarke, and that can only be a good thing.
We’re excited to see what Temujin does next.
James Jirat Patradoon is an Australian illustrator who made me excited about animated gifs again.
Bright neon colours, sci-fi tinge – what’s not to love?
The above brilliance was made for an exhibition of his in The Tate in Glebe, Australia. But with work like this he could easily show the work in The Other Tate.
Check out more on his website
Beautiful animated short by Jacob Wiatt
Madefire Inc. is a new company who is trying to push the boundaries of e-books. They are here to revolutionize the way stories are told. To start with, their narrative flow on a page challenges all conventions. Is this really the future of storytelling?
You can download the app and get a few samples of their “motion books” here.
Nice animated video of illustrations by Carson Ellis for Colin Meloy‘s (lead singer of the Decemberists) book Wildwood.
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