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.

NFB Animated Holiday Card 2011

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

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

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.

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)!

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

 

"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"

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.

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.