MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. What an awesome video. You can read more about it here. I have become quite interesting in hand-made, physical, unconventional media recently. I wonder how this video’s style, combined with some clever graphics programming, could be turned into a cool approach to interactive storytelling.
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An interview with Pixar storyboard artist Enrico Casarosa about Studio Ghibli
There’s an interesting interview on GhibliWorld with Pixar storyboard artist Enrico Casarosa, who worked on Ratatouille and now on the upcoming movie Up. I found in interesting to read about the differences in the storyboarding process at Pixar and at Studio Ghibli. I storyboarded on [Ratatouille] for almost 4 years. The job shortly put entails [...]
And now for some animation
Here are some interesting links related to animation – not 3D animation in games: animation as a visual medium. Darkstrider.net has a great gallery of clips from Eastern European animation. I think most people are like me and may have heard of Jan Svankmajer (who is not even found on this page) or may have [...]
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Here is the trailer for Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, a side-scroller from comic book / animation artist Michel Gagné. It is based on the interstitial videos he produced for MTV a while back (and which I am sure I linked to before). The look is really, really nice. It reminds me of Limbo, the game [...]
