Mike Brent is an amateur independent animator from Stop Motion Animation.com known as Strider. This information portal is a web community administrated by Anthony Scott. Within this community, Brent focuses mainly on the Eastern European style of stopmotion known as Puppetfilm.
After viewing Street of Crocodiles, [Timothy & Stephen Quay, 1986] Brent says he realized that [...]
One may wonder if that means that some of the art has left the field of animation or, perhaps, the field is just experiencing a natural evolution. Given the current state of the film industry, one has to wonder if there is a place in today’s industry for those trained in traditional animation.
Did you ever heard about animation marketing? Over the last couple of decades the face of marketing has changed drastically. About a decade ago marketing underwent another transformation. Where paper advertisements and radio spots used to be, the internet has stepped in to become one of the most widely used advertising and marketing [...]
In her travels across Africa, Claudia Lloyd came across two things that were the basis for the Tinga Tinga series. She had been involved with Comic Relief and wanted to teach herself Swahili so started reading childrens’ stories. These tales – Why Lion Roars?; Why Giraffe has a long neck?; Leopard spots and Zebra stripes? [...]