Few more great shot animations of this year and already nominated and awarded.
Short movie about Garry at mental institution who is afraid to go through doors. Number of details in this animation is just great.
It tels story about old lady ready to die and how grim reaper fight with doctor.
And a bonus short clip from upcoming animation “Where Dream & Day Collide”. This looks promising and music is great too. Produced by Toxic.
So lately I was working on some test short animation rendered in Maya and composed in After Effects, just to learn some new skills. Here is one test scene not final but some progress 
. It took about ~1000 frames rendered in Maya, at ~1 minute render time per frame in Mental-Ray and 5 h composing. (I should have added some music ).
Beautiful short film animation about one men who is scarred to go through doors – door phobia.
Very good looking a full-cg animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.
Watch it in full screen HD and remember it is not real .
If you want you can download good quality video from torrent:
temporarygate.com/TheThird&TheSeventh.mp4.torrent
Here is video of post production in steps:
Where do all the balloons go then they are released up in the air, find out in this short animation:
If you saw ET and Aliens movies you will see a lot of references and hidden jokes. Planet 51 is like reverse story of ET with Astronaut from Earth, called Chuck, on alien planet. While he expected to find deserted planet, he finds himself in alien planet at 50’s timezone, but with floating cars, little alien pets and some floating barbecue. For animated story it was quite fun to watch with all the references to sci-fi, ET and Aliens. Sound track was quite fun too with good old music tracks. You can read more on official site.
And I would say it was much more fun than “The Up”.
2009 year was really good year for stop-motion animation in my view . I was hooked on this type of animation after I saw Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas”. This year it gave two great stories “Mary and Max” and “Coraline”. Here are my favorites containing mystery, fantasy, dark theme and quite funny with proper understanding.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
“Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas” was released in 1993 by Tim Burton and Henry Selick. It tells the story of Jack, who lives in “Halloween Town” and one day opens a portal to “Christmas Town”, there all the fun begins as Jack tries to re-create Christmas at Halloween. It has very defining style of Tim Burton with slim figures, dark theme, sarcasm, other jokes and singing. It was nominated for Oscar, won 4 awards and 5 more nominations. Here is short clip:
Corpse Bride
This was my second encounter with Tim Burton’s production on stop-motion. It was released in 2005 by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson. “Corpse Bride” tells story of Victor and Victoria who should get married, but while Victor practices his vows in forest and gets them right for the first time, he finds him self married to Emily, the corpse bride. It features almost same style as “The Nightmare Before Christmas” but a bit lighter. It was nominated for Oscar, won 5 awards and 14 more nominations.
Coraline
It was released in 2009 by Henry Selick. “Coraline” tells a story about young girl, witch finds a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternative version of her reality, there things seems much better. But later she discovers that not everything looks as it appears. I really liked what one of the creators has told: “If it was movie it would be too scary to watch for children, but stop-motion animations allows to tell this story”.I also really likes sound track of this animation.
Mary and Max
This is the latest of stop-motion and probably best I saw. It already has won 3 awards and it was released 2009 by Adam Elliot. It’s a tale about pen-friendship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle, living in the suburbs of Australia and Max Horovitz, severely obese, atheistic Jewish man with Asperger syndrome who lives in New York City. Story mood is quite dark, but animations are full of sarcasm and jokes, witch for some people could be hard to understand and insult. Soundtrack is very light compared to images, but just great. It is also stated that it is based on true story. Recommend to anyone who likes good stories, but sometimes complicated.
