Alex Novitski's Animation Blog

My entry to the first Russian Animabook festival in Suzdal.

2012-01-30T18:35:00.001-05:00

Thanks to my friend Igor Golev for sharing with me information about this new flip book festival. Deadline was very close and I decide to enter with my award winning Born to be.... More over, the required timing perfectly coincided with the timing of my old film. I just cut down out titles, ending, transition screens music e.t.c., and got at the end required 75 frames of my new flip book version of Born to be.... You can see page of the festival, but only in a Russian language. For some, hidden from me, reason they didn't translated it to English. Or, maybe I'm kind of blind at the end of the day and just couldn't see it? Any way, here it is: Flipbook.

Born to be... [Animabook festival] from ANIMABOOK on Vimeo.

NFB Animated Holiday Card 2011

2011-12-24T21:04:00.000-05:00

The National Film Board of Canada wishes you a happy holiday season with this animated card by Malcom Sutherland.

ÉCO Volume 2 by B&C

2011-11-23T20:24:00.001-05:00

So simple and so great idea! And I'm simple delighted to watch this flick over and over.
Those parisians definitely know how to shoot great books ad.

You can find more great animation on they web site @: B&C

Homemade Light Box

2011-10-26T19:34:00.002-04:00

Slowly but surely pushing up my Ka-Ka-Kiya-Ki film to the finish. Last week I made this Light Box for long-planed re shooting of my pseudo 3D scene of Raised Snakes. I will be doing 360° rotation of bunches of clay maiden snakes inside of this Light Box.

Last time when I did it, the scene was purely lighten and as result all images had to much and too strong shadows + I couldn't get right depth of field and as result, more distant snakes comes up blurry.
Next time I'll tell here more detailed about this "pseudo 3D" technology wich I invented for some scenes of my film.

Comics: Resurrection at the supermarket

2011-09-23T16:17:00.000-04:00

At first I wrote short script "Night at the store" and slept on it for some time. Then I planed to do animation based on that script, but situation around pushed me to pops up with this comics first. You may saw in an earliest posts here some of my storyboards based on "Night at the store" they are all done before this comics. One Toronto's small startup publisher commissioned me to do this comics by the end of August. As you can see, I did it, but not get published because publisher went bankrupt and couldn't keep promises. Too bad for him. How's it for me? Don't know, but still hope the day will come and all my works become needed.

2011-09-23T14:49:00.001-04:00

Here one of my quickie drawn animation. In a total I've spend, maybe, 2 hrs doing this four's seconds flick. I used to think what I lost it in an one of computer crashes in a past couple years... But no! It was well hiden in a safety on my old Vaio desktop. So, vualya - "Chelovecek" (The Little Man)!

2011-09-18T11:14:00.002-04:00

Very minimalistic but very creative and well done stop-motion piece. Outstanding.

2011-08-23T19:56:00.002-04:00

"Howl" is Natalie Bettelheim & Sharon Michaeli's graduation film from Bezalel.

You can visit Howl project blog at http://projecthowl.blogspot.com/ and find there tons of interesting info and original art works related to this beautiful film.

Oriinal cell of Bill Plympton's "Guard Dog"

2011-07-21T10:49:00.000-04:00

This original frame from Bill Plympton's Oscar nominated animation Guard dog. I received it as a gift from Bill after I had finished to animate my part of Guard Dog Global Jam for him.

You can reed more about Guard Dog Global Jam on a official Facebook page of this project here.

Strange Case In The Supermarket first draft.

2011-07-08T16:08:00.000-04:00

Just found in a notebook my very first script draft of Strange Case In The Supermarket. Originally, as you can see, It was written on Russian.

The Pitch. You can win £25K!

2011-07-06T13:21:00.000-04:00

Just found very interesting competition - 2 minute pitch for short movie based on a Bible. Yea, it's could be short animation, or storyboard... no style or media restrictions. The competition consist of three rounds, and round One has already begun and will continue until midday of 14 October 2011. They will accept an pitch submissions during this round One. Round Two 1 - 30 November 2011. During second round public and after panel of judges will vote and select 10 finalists. Round Three - before 23 December finalists will be notified by phone and pitch selections will be publicly announced on 4 January 2012 on www.enterthepitch.com. 14–15 January 2012 finalists will be participate in a face-to-face pitch with the judges and a subsequent interview. 15 January the winner will be announced. I wrote here just short "timeline" of this competition. If you become interested, and wanna know more you should go to the pitch competition web site and dig around it. So, welcome to The Pitch.

My part of Guard Dog Global Jam.

2011-06-30T18:13:00.000-04:00

This is my shot for Bill Plympton's Guard Dog Global Jam.

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Joanna Quinn - Elles

2011-06-26T21:53:00.001-04:00

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Elles in motion! I like it so much lively animation of Joanna Quinn.

TAIS Showcase 011

2011-06-24T00:04:00.000-04:00

This year TAIS showcase theme was everything & anything about Bunny. Actually I been pleasantly surprised by number of quality animations submitted this year. My favorite short of the Bunny Show has been done by Eurico da Costa Ng (#31). Second place in my personal rating belong to Nick Cross (#28). His animation just a little bit too dark, for my taste. I don't know, how jury and audience has distributed real prizes, because I left theatre right after the show.
Among the films which was screened out of competition come across an couple real gems too.Thats it.

Before show started I have had time to make a quick sketch of the screening room entrance.

Strange case in the supermarket timing

2011-06-19T16:34:00.001-04:00

Timing for Strange Case In The Supermarket. Film will be 2 minutes and 35 seconds long. It is 3,720 frames, if I choose to shoot it at 24 frames per second. But, most likely I'll shoot it at 15 frames per second. At this speed it's gonna be "only" 2,325 frames.

Strange case in the supermarket storyboard

2011-06-19T15:40:00.000-04:00

Storyboard for my new animated film Strange Case In The Supermarket.