Monday, September 24, 2007

Traditional(ish) animation

I have no idea how I found this (Im pretty sure I started out watching music videos but thats the weirdness of the internet (6 degrees of youtube separation)) but I think its kind of beautiful. I especially like how the smoke moves and the dancing part at the end.



So then I searched around to find out more about the animators and found that they were influenced by William Kentridge--who does these charcoal and pastel drawing/ animation/films. He draws and erases and redraws (and titles things with phrases such as "Felix Teitlebaum's ANXIETY flooded half the house")...which I think is pretty interesting.

This is one of his is called "Felix in Exile" (and the audio is pretty terrible so forgive me)

2 comments:

Smash said...

The charcoal one was pretty cool. I'm sure it took for-freaking-ever, though.

I'm curious what music videos you were watching that lead you to these.

cait said...

The last video I remember watching was "Heaven knows Im miserable now"....(how apropos)