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Sometimes I go after a director for one film and they’ll come back at me with another that completely trumps my already high appreciation of their work. This week is such a case with director Gabriel Tupinamba and his lyrical study on repetition Das Dores.
Das Dores Materials
Stills
Script
Storyboard, Shotlist & Lighting Plan
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Nonada Filmes
Das Dores
Festivus Film [...]
And the Colors Are Like Summer (2006)
And the Colors Are Like Summer is a short film that deals with the passage from hate to love and with the place that violence and aggression have in the sexual and love discourse, specially when taken to its limits.
Das Dores (2008)
Das Dores tells the story of two [...]
It’s not often a director gets to come up with his own type of animation, but after experimenting with the Strata-cut method Javan Ivey combined his love of working with paper and developed a technique dubbed as Stratastencil on his experimental piece My Paper Mind.
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Javan Ivey
Indie Mogul interview
Pratt Institute
X-Acto
Strata-cut animation
Tunnel Kids
Replacement Animation
The Principles of Animation
Adobe [...]
My Paper Mind (2007)
An experimental animation exploring the “Stratastencil” technique devised by director Javan Ivey. Inspired by the Stratacut technique, Stratastencil is an additive process. Stratacut removes material to reveal another layer, while this technique adds another layer while still showing the layer before it.
Remember Happy Monday, Andrew Filippone Jr.’s documentary film object (DN066)? Well Andrew’s applied his skills to distort the world of Charlie Rose in a new experimental piece. I could mangle together my own description of the piece and probably still be way off the mark so instead read Andrew’s description, watch the film and let [...]
Squint/Opera are well known for their work operating in the space between the film industry and architectural practice, realising commissions as hybrid visualisation/motion graphics pieces for their clients. Co-founder Jules Cocke joins us to discuss the company’s award winning piece for the 2006 Gardens by the Bay Master Plan Design Competition in Singapore.
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Squint/Opera
Gardens By [...]
Gardens by the Bay (2006)
A film showing the development of the design ideas behind the winning entry to the landscape architecture competition in Singapore.
Chances are that if you’re into music, but have had your fill of the sanctioned, glitzy, over produced pop promo you’ve at some point stumbled over the work of director Vincent Moon co-creator of The Take-Away Shows (Concerts A Emporter). Beginning back in his photography work and now in video, Vincent has re-define the approach [...]
The Take-Away Shows: #83.3 - Sidi Toure - Part 3 & #78.3 - Scout Niblett - Nevada
You meet a band. You take them outside, in the streets, and ask them to play there, shoot the movie in one unique shot, whatever happens. Those are the Take-Away Shows, the weekly Video podcast from french weblog La [...]
Directors Boca & Ryan Uhrich describe their creative relationship as an ongoing tennis match in which each of them pushes the other to create the best work possible. Their animation Duelity presents the two main arguments for the origins of man as separate films which come together in a third split-screen piece to debate the [...]