Der Schweizer Filmpreis Quartz für den besten Trickfilm geht an “Tôt ou tard” von Jadwiga Kowalska für die Schlichtheit und Feinheit der Grafik in einer Geschichte voller Poesie, die von einer gelungenen Tonspur getragen wird.
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I just released a keyframemapper plugin for shake osx – a swiss army knife for keyframe mapping. You can get it here or on highend3d.com .
I developped it in the first place to be able to fit the changements in parameters to our cartoon renderings and stop motion animations after retiming. I still have the script that converts the cambridge animations animo dopesheet to shake script …
Let me know if yo like it, if it is useful to you or if you have any suggestions to it.
See some basic concepts of lightning nicely explained on lowel.
Kurzer Nachtrag der auszeichneten Filme:
Signalis:
*Januar 09 Nominierung Schweizer Filmpreis Kategorie Animation (dotiert mit 10’000 CHF)
*Januar 09 Nachwuchspreis SUISSIMAGE/SSA 2009 Solothurner Filmtage, Schweiz (dotiert mit 10’000 CHF)
*November 08 Best animation Film – International Competition VGIK Int. Student Festival Moscow, Russia
La Main de l’Ours:
*Dezember 08 Best Animation Film – International competition Tirana Film Festival, Albania
*November 08 Special Mention – International competition FIKE 2008 – Evora International Short Film Festival, Portugal
*Oktober 08 Best Short Film for Children and Young Audience – International competition Ekotopfilm Bratislava, Czech republic
*Oktober 08 Diploma for narration and professionalism – International competition Festival of Animated Films Tindirindis Vilnius, Lithuania
*Oktober 08 Best International Animated Film – International Competition *CinemAmbiente Torino, Italia (dotiert mit 2500€)
Tôt ou tard:
*Januar 09 Nominierung Schweizer Filmpreis Kategorie Animation (dotiert mit 10’000 CHF)
*Dezember 08 Goldan Goat for Best Children Film – International Competition Ale Kino Poznan, Poland
*Dezember 08 Audience Award Animateka Ljubljana, Slovenia (dotiert mit 1000€)
The Bellringer:
*Oktober 08 Bester Animationsfilm – Internationaler Nachwuchswettbewerb für Werbespot, Motion Design und Kurzfilm “Kurzundschön” Köln, Germany
Vor drei Jahren stellte sich das EU-geförderte Projekt MIDAS der Herausforderung, Bestandsinformationen von 18 Filmarchiven aus ganz Europa zusammenzuführen und zentral online zugänglich zu machen. Jetzt ist das einmalige Vorhaben geschafft. Bislang können rund 25.000 Filmwerke schnell und direkt im Internet recherchiert werden.
I feared I’ll have to sell my 5122 for a few bucks – but now it’s back.
Update: While talking about retro things, maybe it’s worth mentioning the impossible project.
In addition to the previous post “Scientists extract images directly from brain” NYU scientists studied the brain activity when watching motion pictures: “Our data suggest that achieving a tight control over viewers’ brains during a movie requires, in most cases, intentional construction of the film’s sequence through aesthetic means,” the researchers wrote. “The fact that Hitchcock was able to orchestrate the responses of so many different brain regions, turning them on and off at the same time across all viewers, may provide neuroscientific evidence for his notoriously famous ability to master and manipulate viewers’ minds. Hitchcock often liked to tell interviewers that for him ‘creation is based on an exact science of audience reactions.’ “
Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor. Soon an author will just meditate, think of his masterpiece and the generated images will be transfered to a studio realising the movie – that might give opportunities for a new masters course: Animeditate.
UPDATE: Thanks to Joy for pointing me to this video:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daY7uO0eftA
Imagine you work for years on your movie and nobody sees it – *Autsch*. Unfortunately it happens more often than you imagine – even with good films. So take action and release it eighter on The Pirate Bay or read the Lux Distribution Guide and give your work some audience.
Animata is an open source real-time animation software, designed to create animations, interactive background projections for concerts, theatre and dance performances. It somehow remembers me the Aftereffects Puppet Tool, mixed with the random arboretum for processing. Give it a try and share your results.
Reverse Shadow Theatre from gabor papp on Vimeo.