Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Leaving Us

Leaving Us
It was my animation film proposal to Hothouse 2013 of NFB of Canada. 


Animation
"Leaving Us" is one minute film that tells the story of a woman who wanted to fly away.
The film will be done in abstract style close to cubism and constructivism twenties of
the last century. The narrative of the film is pretty simple, but all visual is very complex
and based on constant interaction between colors, shapes and space. The whole
animation will be drawn on paper .The drawings then will be scanned into the
computer, where they'll be composited and colored, and the camera moves will be
added. (*)The film opens with a scene where the camera is pointing up from the
ground. We see the facade of the apartment building and sky. The next moment we
hear the sound of breaking glass from the top floor, the pieces of broken window begin
to falling down. The camera moves to the level of the middle of the house. The glass
pieces are quickly approaching camera and turning blue, iridescent, geometric cloud.
That cloud flying past the camera and continue to fall to the ground. The camera pans
over and we see as are debris finally reaches the earth's surface. Next scene start
exactly as a first one, camera pointing right up to the sky from the ground level. From
the top floor where the broken window is, somebody start tossing out armfuls of
clothes. Clothing is flying down as an bunch of mixed colored shapes. Very quickly
they fill an entire screen. Clothing flies down and replaced by a new portion of the
ejected from above. Colors and shapes continuously replacing each other and
happening on the screen resembles us a kaleidoscope. This continues for about fifteen
seconds. Suddenly this colorful rhythm literally bursting with something white. It's
coming closer, and somehow our mind recognize in it girl’s body. For a split second our
entire screen goes entire white. Then for a while we continue to see colored spots
residues falling clothes. Once more camera goes to the middle of the building and
turns down. On the ground, at the middle of multi-colored spots, in which red is
dominated, we sees a white silhouette of the shattered girl. Next scene. Camera slowly
zooming to the side of the building and gradually level up with a broken window. Fadeout.
The end.

Tools: iMac computer, suitable scanner, TVPaint, Anime Studio Pro, Avid Media
Composer and Adobe Photoshop.
www.digitalmanuscript.com
http://anovitski.blogspot.ca



'Leaving Us' Storyboard

Monday, 2 December 2013

Just found on a hard drive this clip from year of 2009. As I remember, it was done for History TV channel competition.

low road 204X12fr sec640X480 from Alex Novitski on Vimeo.

Thursday, 10 October 2013

I created new short animated surrealistic film Dreams of New Moon for Third Annual Competition iAniMagic2013 by Kdan Mobile Software Ltd. My film earn 143 votes from online voters. It is a third result over all 91, submitted this year, films. I considered this result as very promising and cheerful. Any way final results of the competition will be announced on Kdan website on 14 October. Will see then.


Dreams of New Moon from Alex Novitski on Vimeo.

Saturday, 20 July 2013


Yesterday, 19 July 2013 I got this letter in response to my previous months submission to NFB Hothouse 9. As you can see, it's rejection letter. What I can say? Maybe next time I'll have better luck?
Dear All,
The selections for Hothouse 9 have been made. Regrettably your proposals were not among the 6 finally selected this year.
We received 99 applications and, needless to say, competition was fierce and debate was heated in an effort to fill the 6 available spots.
Names of the successful applicants will be posted in the coming days on nfb.ca/hothouse. 
We hope to post some of the apprenticeship experiences on the NFB blog during the production months.
Thank you for taking the time to share your ideas and stories with us. We hope you'll keep us on your radar for future editions and wish you all the best in your work ahead.
Jelena Popovic
HH9 Associate Producer
National Film Board of Canada

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Today I'd like to share my next animated flick Wild Dance. It's very raw piece which I created in my spare time sitting in a coffee shops all across Toronto. Nothing special just tested the Animation Desk application and drawn on my iPad Mini using the digital pen Jot Pro. No sound yet.


Saturday, 12 January 2013

Today Pneumo Hoof at email auction by ArtBomb

Screen print of ArtBomb auction wit Pneumo Hoof on it for biding.
This is the print screen of ArtgBomb auction page with my art piece Pneumo Hoof represented on it.
Today, 12 Jan. 013, my limited edition Pneumo Hoof graphic piece featured on email auction of ArtBomb. Bids started at 6 A.M. and will be ending at 11 P.M. Eastern Time. The starting bid is just $650! So, you still have the opportunity to buy this unique graphic work and support the artist financially. Please, visit ArtBomb site, register and start biding!

Sunday, 6 January 2013

Free Music Archive: Violeta Päivänkakkara - Kuu

Violeta's songs remainder me my childhood. The times when light was bright, clock was slow and space endless and mysterious... Time when I was small.
Free Music Archive: Violeta Päivänkakkara - Kuu

Monday, 5 November 2012

Sunday morning I been at The Old Book and Paper Show bought really beautiful and rare book Shadow Puppets, Shadow Theatres and Shadow Films by incomparable Lottie Reiniger! I will say more over, this book is signed by  the author. Yes, Frau Lotte herself autograph on a frontispice of this book.

I'm such a old fan of hers Adventures of Prince Achmed legendary movie of 1926. If you have not seen this film, just go and watch it.

Thursday, 19 July 2012

My new one minute animation "Interconnection of Our Dreams"

Couple days ago passed a dead line for submitting an animation to Toronto Urban Film Festival. 

As always, I submitted my film almost among the last. But this time submitting become some kind of delaying record for me. To be completely accurate, I brought my film on the day later the official deadline! Belive me, I had my perfectly legal reasons to do so because festival didn't have working submission mechanism for the last day which was Sunday. Office was close and even didn't have a drop box by the doors. I couldn't upload a 980 Mb file either... But, thanks to the reasonable and receptive staff of the TUFF, who respond to my urgent e-mail promptly with vital information about possibility to bring my film in by Monday morning. End of story. At the end of July TUFF will decide which films is selected for showing. As I just find it out, this year was submitted more then 400 films! People sent films from all around the word. Incredible!

TUFF web site.

Sunday, 17 June 2012

Last Monday "Pneumo Hoof " get scanned.

After long period of hesitation and empty expectations I finally did very important task - professional scanned one of my best, steam-punk picture Pneumo-Hoof created in a year 1996.
Pneumo Hoof by Alex Novitski 1996
I have a plans to print it out as limited edition Giclée. Original size of this image is 29x21 inches.
I expecting to put my hans on first five copies by the end of June. So, if you want to buy it, drop me a line and I'll make a RSV for you.

Monday, 30 January 2012

My entry to the first Russian Animabook festival in Suzdal.

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.

Saturday, 24 December 2011

NFB Animated Holiday Card 2011

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

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

ÉCO Volume 2 by B&C

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

Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Homemade Light Box

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 too 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.

Friday, 23 September 2011

Comics: Resurrection at the supermarket

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.


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)!

Sunday, 18 September 2011

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

 

Tuesday, 23 August 2011

"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.

Thursday, 21 July 2011

Oriinal cell of Bill Plympton's "Guard Dog"

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.

Friday, 8 July 2011

Strange Case In The Supermarket first draft.

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.