SCAD – Hong Kong – 2017 Fall
Author: Charlotte Pang
Hey guys!
Recently me and my friends watched this animated short that has a ‘golden accolade’ from the Hong Kong Animation Support Program!
It’s a really interesting short, I wouldn’t say the animation in it is very high quality but the colours, art style and line work are stunning. It reminds me a lot of of old Hong Kong comics. Take a look if you have a spare few minutes from finals!
-Pang
Wassup Anim Bros!
We’ve been talking a lot about animation festivals and I think this one is also open for entry! I scrolled past this Vimeo video on Facebook of their trailer and it’s very interesting, it uses a lot of metamorphosis in it. Quite coincidentally also features a lot of fish in it and I just watched the short film that Sophia posted which was about fish. I’m really hoping to enter some of my short films into some festivals so I’m pushing to finish a lot of them this quarter! I hope I’ll see some of your shorts too soon!
See y’all Tuesday 🙂
-Pang
On my search for some more Hong Kong Animation videos I found this on Youtube:
This is a relatively recent animation made by PolyU students and I thought it had a very interesting use of Rotoscoping in it. The last part especially with the neon I really admire the line work is beautiful in it!
Also, did you guys know that some of Dreamwork films were co-directed by a Hong Kong Animator called Raman Hui? He also graduated from PolyU in 1984 with a major in Graphic Design.
He was even listed in 2010s most notable 25 Chinese-American animators in Forbes. Hui directed three short films from Dreamworks, Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five, Scared Shrekless and Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos and was a supervising animator for Shrek and Shrek 2. (Can you imagine being this involved in Shrek?)
Art is on the way up in Hong Kong. I think there will be a huge rise in the arts in HK soon, you can see it with the streets in Central and certain areas in the old territories too. If art is on the way then so is animation!
-Pang
Hi Anim bros!
It’s almost Finals, can you believe it?!
I can’t let go of how much I love the Pixilation technique so I’ve been searching through the internet for some more cool examples and I turned to one of my favourite youtube content creators, ‘Corridor’. This team of people started out with just two friends but they have grown to be much larger now and even take on internships (you’ll have to fight me first though!). Inspired a lot by games and other films they use great visual effects and simple storytelling for great shorts. I don’t know if you saw the viral short ‘Anime Fidget Spinner’, these guys made that! So this was their first Pixilation film and it is full of imagination and interesting techniques of animation. They use a top down camera (somehow attaching a camera to the ceiling of their warehouse presumably) and shoot the whole film in that way.
Also just wanted to post a little about Freddie Wong and his work, another great content creator who uses a lot of stunts and visual effects for his shorts. This happens to be a Street Fighter inspired short so I felt it was appropriate to post it here. Two great inspirations for me definitely!
See y’all on the Tuesday!
-Pang
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