Oh the brownness

[Biblo]

Some very nice experimental animation for you to muse over.

Balaye Par La Vent by Carol Freeman:
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This has some really nice experiments in it I'm not sure where to begin. Firstly the unique backgrounds were created by printing out black and white photos with colour ink from a laser printer, then soaking the sheets in acetone and printing them onto fresh sheets. The animation was created by drawing everything one frame at a time (no inbetweening) with white chalk on black paper, then inverting the colours and superimposing the images over the backgrounds. These mixed media give a very warm feel and atmosphere to the film.

The Street by Caroline Leaf:

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Caroline Leaf is breathtaking with her use of sand animation. That is, sand piled up on a white light box and careful manipulation of the sand to allow the right amount of light out. Very difficult and very impressive when done right. It would be worth your while to find her films Metamorphosis and Two Sisters for stunning examples of sand and scratch animation respectively.

Discuss.

[LeekClock]

The Street blew me away. It's full of really great observations and equally impressive animation and direction.

That technique reminds me of the pinscreen animation technique pioneered by Jacques Drouin, particularly in the way it seems to influence the style of the animation, making it very flowing and giving a tendency to those merging match-cut transitions

[AnimeClock]

I saw a really good pinscreen interpretation of night on bald mountain. Anyway, caroline leaf is another of my really favorite animators. Making breathtaking animation I think literally means spending weeks locked up and just working straight on something. That's what caroline leaf did anyhow.

I really love Two sisters.