Animation Process

Posted in Animation

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 [...]

Animation for Marketing

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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 [...]

Plot-driven animated film

Posted in Movie

In actuality the film was, most likely, the right length for a feature. Perhaps the filmmakers didn’t go far enough with the plot.
You see, this is the way that I feel with most animated films of today. Not enough potential is being milked out of a meaty subject. It’s almost as if the filmmakers decided [...]

Anime win award 2008

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Ratatouille cleaned up at this year’s Annie awards, taking 10 statues including the coveted Best Animated Feature award.
This means the Brad Bird movie has a better-than-average chance of taking home the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film on February 14th. The Annies have successfully predicted the Oscar winner for five out of the six years [...]