dudu is a character in movie called : African United which is base on three Rwandan kids who walk 3000 miles to the Soccer World Cup in South Africa. In the movie had some amazing VFX, which included puppets animation ,stop-motion animation and 2D animation
A stunning video by Stefan Nadelman for ‘I Say Fever’, from Ramona Falls’ Intuit, Stefan combined brilliantly dark visuals with spooky animation for an utterly mind-bending result. Stefan Nadelman (born Stefan Jan Nadelman) is an award winning director and animator of short films and commercials. He is known for his stylized 2.5D compositions, innovative uses of digital photoanimation, and faux stop motion techniques.
created by Chris Landreth and was 2005 OSCARS for Best Short Animation
Ryan Larkin was everything to animation. he was an artist, and sculptor who rose to fame. As a teenager, Ryan Larkin studied at the Art School of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Arthur Lismer, and clearly showed sharp talent for character and figure drawing. In the early 1960s, he was hired by the National Film Board of Canada, and was immediately recognized by NFB's Norman McLaren as one of the brightest new artists in that organization. Norman personally took Ryan on as a protégé; and gave him the resources to create two animated short films: Citérama (1966) ("Cityscape") in 1963 and Syrinx (1965) in 1964. The latter film won worldwide recognition and propelled Ryan to even more ambitious projects.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. He was given write-ups in Time Magazine and called the "Frank Zappa or George Harrison of Animation"
HUNGU : The hungu is an African musical instrument, ancestor of the Brazilian berimbau. Its origins are carried on in an ancient tradition. Inspired by the grace and raw beauty of African rock paintings, Nicolas Brault applies his narrative gifts to a world where humans and nature are subtly linked.
Under the African sun, a child walks in the desert with his kin. Death is prowling, but a mother's soul resurrected by music will return strength and life to the child when he becomes a man.
The filmmaker combines 2D animation on a graphics tablet with the warmth of sand animation, thus uniting modernity and tradition, Brazil and Africa, music and memory. Sparse in design and humanist in its outlook, Hungu exudes the elegance and suggestive power of a timeless story. ....... THE DIRECTORS -Nicolas Brault ......... THE PRODUCERS - julie Roy ...........
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. Using the original interview as the soundtrack, this narrative tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multi-pronged animation
computer illustration by ALEX KURINA pen illustration by JAMES BRAITWAITE directed & animated by JOSH RASKIN
THE ROOM was done by the Rinpa Eshidan group "Rinpa" is a word created by the founders of the group meaning "to bring people together, while "Eshidan" essentially means "art crew." The Rinpa Eshidan is a team of artists brought together by a common creative expression.
decades before computer graphics, before music videos, even before "Fantasia" (the 1940 version), there were the abstract animated films of Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967), master of "absolute" or nonobjective filmmaking. He was cinema's Kandinsky, an animator who, beginning in the 1920's in Germany, created exquisite "visual music" using geometric patterns and shapes choreographed tightly to classical music and jazz. (John Canemaker, New York Times)
Oskar Fischinger is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, embracing the abstraction that became the major art movement of that century, and exploring the new technology of the cinema to open abstract painting into a new Visual Music that performs in liquid time. (Biographer William Moritz)