This video although blasphemes, and i apologise to anyone who may be offended, this is a high quality animation. imaginative to say the least, i personally like the angel monkeys. Its interesting how there is a constant use of shapes you would naturally assosiate with religion such as the long spike topped windows. the only bit i didn't like was talking it into live action, i felt this acctually took away from the stylised view they had given during the rest of the animation.
Milton Glaser one of the famous illustrators known for his work for Push Pin Studios, talks about drawing.
I never really thought about it until but Milton brings up some interesting points, for starters, the idea that you don't really concentrate on what ever it is your looking at until you draw it. this is extremely true and i do believe changes the way you look at things once you have drawn them. For example if you was to draw a simple chair it no longer becomes a simple chair to the artist as your start to understand the process it has gone though to come to this point. You see the joints, you understand how it was put together, you begin to think about its texture and what it is made of. from that point onwards it is no longer a simple chair it is an object on a journey and you understand it more.
Another point made by Milton is that in order to draw expressively you must first lean to draw accurately. this is a process i have gone through and whilst i was young i could never understand why i couldn't draw expressively, but once i began to take lessons on drawing accurately the rest all fell into place and now it comes extremely naturally. I have found this to be an interesting talk that has held some interesting thought processes to it.
This animation studio has a few select, decent animations floating about at the moment. This one is my personal favorite but the one that first got my attention is a trailer for a film in production: http://www.angelvitamina.com/ the quality on this one is much better and looks very interesting, i will be keeping a close eye on this one.
Found this website a few weeks ago, this is definately a very nice site to have on your bookmarks. The general idea is everyone draws a sketch of whatever they want and admin feature the best ones on the front page. Now I know that sounds a bit simple and uninteresting but the unique thing about this site is that as you draw your sketch using the websites own software all of your marks are saved. All your mistakes and everything you do is recorded and becomes a video for the general public to watch.
This is an interesting programme to watch but is actually quite limiting. There are a select few marks you are allowed to make and I would definately recommend using a tablet to draw with as the mouse can be quite restricting.
Saw this the other day, its completely weird yet hilariously funny. i like how simple it is and think im actually learning something when i'm watching these.
