Winner from this past year’s Hong Kong Animation festival

I hope everyone’s  finals are going well!  If you need  a  break check  out this awesome short film by Minha Kim it won this past  year at the  Hong Kong animation for Best Animated Character at Third Culture Film Festival 2017.   Each frame  is an individual painting and it creates an intriguing and dream like world in which a young girl comes of age the night she follows a group of men to find her mother in the city.  If you want to  know more about how the film was made  there’s a good interview with the artist in the below. But to summarise, it  took 10-12 hours a day 7  days a week for 9 months to create the  9000 drawings that make up the film’s animation.  And the result is a gorgeous combination of media and some pretty killer animation.

http://directorsnotes.com/2016/10/05/minha-kim-sea-child/

 

Rescreach paper update and Hong Kong animation!

 

I hope everyone’s week is going well!  In my rescreach for my paper which is on Jean Giraud was otherwise known as  Moebius who is an amazing and influential artist comic book artist and concept artist, I discoverd that one of his short stories was actually adapted into a 3d cgi film in 2005 by a  Hong Kong animation company called GDC Limited. The name of the film is “Thru the Moebius strip”. Its early cgi so it is quite interesting to watch.

 

If you are interested in seeing more of  Moebius’s work animated check out this fan made trailer that is more closely based on his artwork style.

If you want to learn more about him in general. Which I highly recommend he was a major influence on a lot of artists throughout different mediums. Then check out this awesome BBC documentary.

Princess Kaguya and the ink wash animation

We disscussed   ink wash animation in our past class and how it’s  often hard to make such movies due to budget constraints however we have a seen a recent example with ‘The Tale of the Princess Kaguya’.Takahata, a founder of the Ghibli studio, was the one to direct it and it was his final film.  The film has many of its elements painted with traditional watercolor as well as some help from digital editing. Check it out!

The Snowman

This was the animated short I had mentioned in class the other day when we were looking at the pinpoint animation. The way the figures move in a sketchy yet fluid manner reminds me of the style of pinpoint animation.