3 of my best animations I've created as a first year...so far

Uncontrollable from Aymeh on Vimeo.

My first year 3D project 'Uncontrollable' is a about a bean whose body gets taken over by the music and starts dancing. We are collaborating to make a music clip using all our dancing beans, each with their own story and style for our end of the year screening night.

I like Animation because....

'I like animation because...' assignment. This was one of my favorite assignments because we were essentially given us freedom to illustrate in our own style what it is we like about animation. There's a combination of my drawing style mixed with random erratic animations . You get to peer into a window from my mind's eye.




Starlight by Amy Wheelhouse from Aymeh on Vimeo.

Finally, this is my recently finished origami stop motion 'Starlight'. The assignment was expected to be very short and I just had to overdo it. I did finish the assignment a week early which is an amazing feat might I say.
The story seemed simple while I was planning it but the end product was not how I imagined it to be. I ended up convincing myself that the story need all these different scene that were NOT necessary. For my first stop motion though I'm quite proud and I've learned more through experience than expected.

Special Thanks goes out to Toni Tran who helped me set up the camera and show me how to use it. And Samantha Wheelhouse who helped hold some of my models still. Thanks you guys!

Starlight sneak peek

This is my origami stop mo that i've been working on for 3 weeks now. I finished my final taking all the photos and I'm now moving onto editing them together.

Here's a short scene from my Stop-mo 'Starlight'

STOP MOTION

First day back at College and we're starting our new project; stop motion YAY! So upon research I found a few different stop motion ideas n_n

ORIGAMI Style!

Another creative use of Stop motion. Animated by Saiman
Check out more at saiman

A Posty note animation

Rubik cubes!!! by Mystery Guitar Man

 

Bumper Car Race :D

IT'S GO TIME! XD

i like animation becaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaause...

TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURTLE_bean

MASTER ROSHI BOUNCE!

Bouncing BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL :D

turtle

2D animation design (draft)

 

This is just one of many designs I have =_='

NON STOP NYAN CAT

website http://www.nyan.cat/ for non NYAN!

Yoga Pose

DECAP

Link to youtube with better quality DECAP

Bahijad Shithead Action

This is a really AWESOME gif animation done by a guy i stumbled upon on DeviantArt and was my inspiration to consider animation. I think its really well done considering the program he used looks similar to paint and just goes to show that it is the artist makes the animation not the program :)He used 1651 frames and it's 2min of pure awesome..ness :P

Link to his origin: Shithead Action Bahijd

Something completely different - Naruto Abridged Spoof

3D progress

slow and steady

Forest background

This is the background scene I did for our perspective assignment in Jane's class, I didn't upload the kitchen scene because its not very good.....

The hardest part was the shading and it could probably need a bit more the moss on the trees look like they're glowing :P

TEST hero

Hero pose

Rango dialogue - Hero Character

TA DA! heres my hero character. He doesnt have a name yet but i will think of one...eventually :D

turtle

FREE HUGS on YouTube

YMAIDYL productions present...FREE HUGS!!

WARNING not for barney fans

enjoy :D

Link to a higher quality version  Free Hus -Barney the Dinosaur

THE TREASURE HUNT....Continued

Warner Bros presents…. ‘The Case of the missing hare’ (1942) and ‘Hubie & Bertie the Aristo Cat’ (1943). Both the films were directed by Chuck Norris Jones.

Most of Jones’ cartoons in the 1930’s and 1940’s were to try and shadow Walt Disney’s shorts. One of the big influences of Jones’ works was the Disney short ‘Tom Thumb in trouble’. (Seen below)

Jones joined the Disney studio for a short period when the Warner Bros studio momentarily closed in 1953.

In 1942 Jones released his new work The Dover boy’s separating himself from Disney and coming out with a new chic ‘Stylized Animation’. This style was a lesser realistic animation style, especially compared to Disney’s animations. It’s said Jones felt that this was when he “learned how to be funny” by using his animations.

In ‘Monsters Inc.’ Pixar paid homage to Chuck Norris Jones cartoon ‘Feed the Kitty

YES IT IS Franky franks favourite

My First Animation - Depression over Time

Today, I finally perfected my animation that I drew for my final art assignment of yr 12 last year. It took me the whole term to draw it up on A3 and piece together in a movie file. I didn't like how it turned out using imovie so utilizing the TAFE's Flash program I put my stills together to make this:

I had a song that went with it...but after our copyright talk in class, I don't want to risk getting in troubles :). You can watch it on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqRNmAs3Fh4, the video is bigger there.

The concept behind my animation was to show the development of depression as an example of facade. Usually when somebody have depression you hide behind a mask (facade) of false happiness to cloak how you really feel. After a while the facade starts to leak and show through and it becomes harder to hide how you feel until it breaks loose.
There were a few missing frames at the start which I'm not happy about but nevertheless it turned out better than i expected for an amateur :d

Animation Treasure Hunt for GOLDEN NUGGETS!!! crazy stuff

This morning we went on an adventure to the wondrous place called a 'Library', it was full of joy and joyness :P Before we left, Franky Frank gave us a list of things to find on our treasure hunt adventure.
If you have been watching the Oscars then you would've seen the winner of this years best animated short film 'The Lost Thing'. The resources available at the library are a few of his other children books that he did: 'The Bird King' and 'The Animal'. The Library offers a wide range of Magazines about animated films released. These are stored in the Level 2 of the building. I flipped through one of the magazines and it was very interesting :D
The library offers many helpful resources such as copyright information that you can search up on their website. Copyright affects us ALL!!

The book that two of the '9 old men' Frank Thomas and Olie Johnson, the title oif the book is 'The Illusion of Life' located on level 3.
Another helpful book that we found on our adventure was Richard Williams 'Animaton Survival Kit' found on the same level as 'The Illusion of Life'. There is also a DVD version of the book that you can rent out.
When Franky Frank went to Paris in 2009 he brought back magical gifts and stores them in the wondrous Library. The magical gifts that Franky Frank brought back were a 2 DVD set of animation and class exercises.

The wonderful libary also supplies Miyazaki films such as ; Nausicaa of the valley of the wind, Kikki's delviery service, Spirited Away, Howl's movie Castle, Porco Rosso and Laputa Castle in the Sky.

What I've learnt from this treasure hunt is that the Library supplies a lot of useful resources that can help me gather creative research and ideas for future assessments.

BACCANO and DUARARA!!

 Ok well if you've never heard of Baccona or Durarara!! Why not! hehe I love these shows, I recommend you watching them if you get the chance.

Durarara!! has everything Headless horse men, colour gangs, the slasher and more :d. If you want to know more check out this link:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com.au/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10947

Bacanno is set in the 1930's in America, very different to the usual Japanese settings. Each of the stories in the series involves several unrelated plots intersecting and crossing each other as events spiral farther and farther out of control. Immortal alchemists, mafia operated speakeasies, and many other elements of pulp fiction mashed together for a world straight out of the movies.

Who is the animator with the Gorilla?

Today we did a little trivia with the 2nd years about Ray Harryhausen the creator of special effects or commonly known as stop motion. So the man with the gorilla, could only be the one and only RAY HARRYHAUSEN!

Harryhausen is most famous for his works in stop motion films, 'Mighty Joe Young' released in 1952 and 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad' 1949. The amazing special effects that Harryhausen did included the scene in 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad' was a stop motioned skeleton fighting and a live action Sinbad.

 

Animator vs. Animation with Flash

So, I relised when we were mucking around with Flash today that I've seen an animated video about it. If you've been on DeviantArt you have probably already seen it.

There's two versions of the animation, I like the second one better so I'm featuring it, if you want to watch the first one here's the link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo1d6ttbAq8.

2/9

When watching 'The Incredibles' did you sense a feeling of deja vu when you see the two old men commenting on the final fight. Well it's possibly because they were fetured in another animated movie 'The Iron Giant' directed by Brad bird. Brad Bird wanted to honour both Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson who were both cameoes in the two animated movies. They were his idols and mentors when he joined Disney.

In 'The Incredibles' they are seen talking to each other...

Frank: Hey you see that
Ollie: Yer
Frank: Thats the way to do it, that's old school
Ollie: Yeah, old school like the old school

Being one of the elite 'Nine Old Men' from Disney, Frank worked along with many animated flilms, such as the animated sequence in 'Lady in the Tramp'. The link below will lead you to the scene that Frank drew for Lady and the Tramp': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WxDdz-Anls

Here's Frank and Ollie talking about animation process in 'The illusion of Life'

Animation History: Lady and the Tramp

One of Disney’s classic animated well-known films, ‘Lady and the Tramp’ is the story centred on a young female cocker spaniel dog who meets the street smart Tramp. Disney’s ideas from scenes in the film were centred on events he went through and influenced by the people he surrounded himself with. There were two main people who influenced the ‘ideas’ incorporated into ‘Lady and the tramp’, Joe Grant and Ward Greene. In fact it was Joe Grant who owned the dog Lady and at a dinner get-together Grant showed Walt a few sketches of Lady and her regular playful mischiefs. Walt liked the idea of doing a film about Lady and Grant went on to create storyboards for a film. Unfortunately the film was put on hold for a couple of years. Walt relooked at the idea of Lady after he read a story written by Ward Greene called ‘Happy Dan the Cynical Dog’ this was a few years after the idea was first created. Thus it wasn’t until Walt merged Grant’s storyboards and Greene’s story that ‘Lady and the Tramp’ could be perfected into the film you see today.
Some ideas for ‘Lady and the Tramp’ originated from events and things he did, like how in the movie, Lady was given to the wife in a hat box, it has been implied that Walt had done the same thing and decided to use that in the film. The film was released in 1955 and has now become a timeless family loved film.

The starting line

Hey I'm Amy and this is the starting line for my first blog post. A few artist that i draw inspiration from are Endling and yuumei, you can checkout there art at:

http://endling.deviantart.com/ and http://yuumei.deviantart.com/

I don't know many animations or animators only some things I've seen on DeviantArt and Youtube.

There's an animation company called Studio 4°C, they have been involved in some amazing works like Tekkonkinkreet Movie, Berserk Movie, The Animatrix and more. One of my personal favourites is Kung Fu Love (Amazing Nuts) and Fluximation. Kung Fu Love is a 10min Ova with a pretty random plot, but the art style is really interesting and the COLOURS are so vibrant, it's really amazing.

Kung Fu Love as known as Amazing Nuts

Tekkonkinkreet is based on a comic by Taiyo Matusmoto and animated by Mustuko Kajiya

Fluximation is 14 short music videos for Utada Hikaru's album "Exodus".
Directed by Koji Morimoto, Kazuto Nakazawa, Hideki Himura, Hiroyuki Kitakubo, Jiro Kanai, Yoshiharu Ashino, Yasuhiro Aoki, Atsuko Fukushima, Tatsuyuki Tanaka, Daisuke Nakayama.

This is the Studio 4°C Music Video Collection 01 Opening

Check out their website at: http://www.studio4c.co.jp/english/ to see more of their works

This is the first animation i saw on DA and I haven't forgotten about since.

Here's another example that i found and liked on DA.

Some videos of cartoons that i love and enjoy

Potatoes and Dragons

Fly Tales

What got my into animation was mostly anime and Studio Ghibli. My obsession spreads through anime and manga, a few examples would be Oh great! but thats more manga then anime (the anime wasn't that great, funny but not well drawn), Soul Eater, Burst Angel, Sword of the stranger, Studio Ghilbli mostly like Nausica Valley of the Wind (TOXIC JUNGLE..sooo well drawn like all his works). I also love durarara! and Baccano mostly for there story though :D.

In our group discussion of our animated influences i mentioned 'MUTO' which was painted/animated by BLU. His works are very 'out there' and abstract (well thats my impression). Its a style you don't see very often.

If you liked MUTO and want to see more of his works here's his website http://www.blublu.org/