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I've only recently discovered Zhong Xian but i am in love with her animations. So colourful and crazy

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Space is a romantic film about personal space in a relationship.

Animated short film 2min 54sec
Medium: Drawn on paper, acrylic paint

Animated and Directed by Zhong Xian
Sound Design by WenChi Liu
Colouring assistants:
Doris Tu, Lisa Chou, Amber Chen, Hou Yi HsuanSun Chia En, Chen Jing Kai,
Wang Tze HsuanWang Pai Wei, Liang Lin, Chu Po Hsuan, Huang Yu ChienWei Wei Huang, Judy Chen

First year film from the Royal College of Art in 2020

❀Awards 
-Best Student Animation- 
Ottawa International Animation Festival, 2021

-Special Mention-
Festival of Animation Berlin (FAB) , 2022

-Best Student Animation- 
at T-Short festival, 2021


❀Screenings 
-official selection-
2021 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Annecy, France
2021 14th British Shorts Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2021 T-Short festival, London, United Kingdom
2021 Imaginaria Film Festival, Italy
2021 Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland
2021 Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada
2021 London International Animation Festival, United Kingdom
2021 Animest Bucharest International Animation Film Festival, Romania
2021 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, USA
2022 Anima International Animation Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium
2022 Animac International Animation Film Festival, Catalonia, Spain
2022 6th Festival of Animation Berlin (FAB)
2022 Animix Animation Festival, Israel
2022 New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Japan

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Gaia Alari is an animator I really love. Here she talks about combining poetry with illustration/animation. The usefulness of using words as a way to create imagery

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Turning Poetry into Traditional Animation - An Interview with Animator-Director Gaia Alari

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Lunar Vacation - Fantasy (Official Visualizer)

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Future Islands - Walking Through That Door 

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Future Islands - Walking Through That Door 

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Stop motion animation music video. Small detail but I love how the music starts when the record plays in the music video. Also has a nice bit at the end that shows the process of making.

Something to explore?

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Future Islands - Walking Through That Door (Official Music Video)

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Island Open Studios Animation with Molly Fairhurst

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Super Cool Drawing Machine- Molly Fairhurst 

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Super Cool Drawing Machine- Molly Fairhurst 

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Trailer for The Musicians Art Show by Molly Fairhurst

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SUPER COOL DRAWING MACHINE – The Musicians Art Show – Trailer

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https://www.igortTsvetkov.com/

Tsvetkov is an animator and filmmaker who created a series of animations called Rapture. They are based on a 'pseudoscientific concept he invented about studying the dreams of soldiers of the Second World War'.

I love that most of his animations are hand-drawn, usually with materials like pencil and charcoal. He will often combine multiple seperate gifs together into one image.

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Simple loop but really cool

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Triphop, a music genre, originated in Bristol in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It blends hip-hop, reggae, dub, jazz, and electronica to create hazy, downtempo beats. Layered samples and whispery vocals define triphop as moody, slow, and occasionally melancholic.

Notable albums include:

Blue Lines- Massive Attack

Mezzanine- Massive Attack

Dummy- Portishead

Endtroducing- DJ Shadow

Maxinquaye- Tricky

Who Can You Trust?- Morcheeba

Becoming X- Sneaker Pimps

The Richest Man in Babylon- Thievery Corporation

Rhythm and Stealth- Leftfield

Lamb- Lamb

Psyence Fiction- UNKLE

In A Space Outta Sound- Nightmares on Wax

Do You Like My Tight Sweater- Moloko

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Unfinished Sympathy was released in 1991, as part of Massive Attack's 'Blue Lines' album

Blue Lines created a completely different genre of music, a form of 'chill' hip-hop that has influenced music today

Unfinished Sympathy has no traditional bassline or chorus. The strings were recorded live by a 40 piece orchestra, creating the emotional resonance of the song

Massive Attack defined the 'New Bristol sound', going on to influence artists such as: Portishead, Bjork, Fatboy Slim, TV on the Radio, and Radiohead

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Exploring Massive Attack & "Unfinished Sympathy"  | New British Canon

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'The songs on Blue Lines run at 'spliff' tempos; from a mellow, moonwalking 90 beats a minute down to a positively torpid 67 bpm.'

Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy (1998)

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'This is triphop, a deft fusion of head-nodding beats, supa-phat bass and an obsessive attention to the kind of otherworldly sounds usually found on acid house records'

Andy Pemberton, MixMag (1994)

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Massive Attack's heavy dub influence is most noticeable on this track. Sampled from Dillinger - Five Man Army

Dub was formed out of reggae in the 1960s and 1970s. It normally consists of samples and remixes, heavy basslines, and distorted audio effects.

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King Tubby was Jamaican sound engineer, synonymous with the development of dub.

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Sounds of the West - Straight Outa Bristol

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Sounds of the West - Straight Outa Bristol

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Massive Attack was born from the Wild Bunch- a group of Bristol DJs who would host listening parties where they would rap/dj/sing. Created a form of hybrid music, everyone from different cultures was listening

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Sounds Of The West - Straight Outa Bristol (Wild Bunch/Massive Attack/Tricky/Postishead)

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'The Bristol sound is Black, it's White, it's Indian, it's African. And that is where the culture of music in Bristol has grown.'

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'(Triphop) pertains to an origin in hip-hop. Hip-hop itself was born from funk'

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With the Beethoven of the sampler, DJ Shadow (real name Josh Davis), claiming to have "accidentally invented trip-hop" in a recent interview with The Guardian, I felt it necessary to give my two cents and set the record straight.

Firstly, some of you were drawn here to find out what exactly "trip-hop" is. As the name suggests, it pertains to an origin in hip-hop music. Hip-hop was itself born from funk music, characterised by heavy use of sampling and later became synonymous with rap music with the likes of N.W.A. laying sharp lines over Dr. Dre's iconic beats.

Trip-hop is a term coined in the mid-1990s, but the label has since been extended back to the late 1980s. What sets trip-hop apart from hip-hop is that it blends a more diverse array of genres into proceedings, such as acid jazz, post-punk, reggae, and electronica. As a rule of thumb, trip-hop will mix samples with a more melancholic instrumental atmosphere and introspective lyrics.

DJ Shadow claimed to have "invented trip-hop" because the term was first coined in 1994 following the release of his song 'In/Flux'. Andy Pemberton, a writer for MixMag, came up with the term "trip-hop" to describe the musical journey, or "trip," of the single in a review.

By all means, DJ Shadow was an electro-pioneer and his most notable release, 1996's Endtroducing....., is nothing short of a masterpiece. The American producer laboured over his Akai MPC60 sampler and gave birth to the first album to have been constructed entirely from samples.

DJ Shadow's formative work in the field is undeniably due reverence, but the earliest trip-hop music can and should be traced back to the genre's spiritual home, Bristol, UK. The city helped put trip-hop on the map throughout the 1990s; local giants Massive Attack and Portishead are still seen as the ace and king of the pack.

Portishead released their Mercury Award-winning debut album, Dummy, in 1994. So, while innovating the genre with their stylish analogue samples, haunting vocals and distorted guitars, they are not our splendid source. The source lies in the 1980s with the three amigos: The Wild Bunch, Massive Attack and Tricky.

As the more learned readers among you might have picked up, these three amigos are essentially one entity. Massive Attack formed in 1989 but was a phoenix that stepped from the ashes of The Wild Bunch, a loose collective of musicians, rappers and DJs from Bristol that formed in 1982.

The Wild Bunch contained each member of the original Massive Attack lineup, including Tricky, and was first established by Grant Marshall and Miles Johnson as the two main DJs. In 1984, they invited a young graffiti artist known as 3D (aka Robert Del Naja) to join them as an MC.

Throughout the '80s, The Wild Bunch pioneered the sound-system culture and would play a host of all-night raves at clubs and abandoned warehouses. Their mixes generally resembled hip-hop, but toward their breakup and the formation of Massive Attack, they began to blend in reggae, dub and jazz.

As the 1990s rolled around, Massive Attack were recording their first album, and in 1991, they released Blue Lines. The seminal debut record is widely considered the first and most exemplary trip-hop album.

Blue Lines is a menagerie of down-tempo hip hop tracks seasoned with a bounty of guest genres, including reggae, soul and electro. For a change in vocal style from the rapping on some of the songs, the band brought in singer Shara Nelson. Nelson sang on three of the album's four singles: 'Safe From Harm', 'Unfinished Sympathy' and 'Daydreaming'.

Most memorable of all the singles was 'Unfinished Sympathy', arguably one of Massive Attack's finest anthems to date. It is a beautifully atmospheric trip-hop classic layered with intriguing textures and instrumentals, thanks to a full orchestral arrangement recorded in Abbey Road studios financed by the reluctant sale of the band's car.

Listen to Massive Attack's 'Unfinished Sympathy' below.

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What is trip-hop and where did it originate?

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Trip-hop has been popularised by DJ Shadow, Portishead, Massive Attack and Björk, but what constitutes a trip-hop record and where did it come from?

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Horace Andy is a Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter. Massive Attack has sampled many of his songs, and Andy has collaborated with them on tracks such as "One Love," "Five Man Army," "Hymn of the Big Wheel," and "Angel."

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@comfortablefields on instagram

Really really love Bosco's style of animation. Fairly simple, looks like it has been drawn in pen, but I love how the images transition into one another. I really want to try and work on transitioning from one image to the next in my own animations.

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Interesting combination of video and hand-drawn animation. I also like that she often adds music to her animations.

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Animator and designer Drew Tyndell runs the company 'Computer Team' which specialises in hand-drawn animation.

https://www.computerteam.co/about

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'Incorporating their printwork and using it to weave textures throughout, we designed a video that tells the story of love, dancing, and letting go, with a nod to British rave culture of the ‘90s.'

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The Chemical Brothers "Out of Control" Remix by The Avalanches

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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of their album Surrender, the Chemical Brothers have released a new version of the single “Out of Control,” remixed by The Avalanches. We got the chance to collaborate on a lyric video for it with designer Jimmy Turrell and the artist behind the Chemical Brothers’ iconic 1990s cover art, Kate Gibb. Incorporating their printwork and using it to weave textures throughout, we designed a video that tells the story of love, dancing, and letting go, with a nod to British rave culture of the ‘90s.


Artist: The Chemical Brothers/The Avalanches (with vocals by Bernard Sumner and Bobby Gillespie)
Song: Out of Control
Directors: Kate Gibb, Computer Team, Jimmy Turrell
Footage: Jimmy Turrell
Animation/design/edit: Computer Team

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Big fan of Cindy Lee. This was made by Patrick Flegel/Cindy Lee

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IF YOU HEAR ME CRYING by CINDY LEE (official video)

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Frames painted on acetate, rotoscoped footage

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Work Shed episode 1 : "Painting acetates" cel animation Cindy Lee paint test

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Big fan of the layered lyrics/words with imagery. Something I think that would look really cool within animation.

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Anna Degnbol’s Animation for Flunkie- Collaprse/ Rebuild

Really beautiful, would love to create something with a similar magical field

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Flunkie - Collapse // Rebuild (official video)

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Flunkie - Collapse // Rebuild (Official Video)

Directed and animated by Anna Degnbol


Flunkie:

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/56SuPrSsWZ6bYQu3HY3Xrq
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/flunkiesucks/
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2GnJMsHaJFl6_nAE1P5cg/featured


Anna Degnbol:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/annadegnbol/
http://annadegnbol.dk

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I really love Emma Kohlmann's way of drawing figures. Big blobby shapes, really lovely

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“I like to retreat into a world that isn’t defining an ideal form”: meet artist Emma Kohlmann

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Emma Kohlmann’s colourful, abstract and hyper-sexualised figures are difficult to forget. “In my watercolours I speak through movement via vignettes, shadows, windows or portholes. I like that there is an illusion of coincidence,” Emma tells It’s Nice That. The Massachusetts-based artist has been painting since she was a child, keeping journals and scrapbooks, but never anticipated making art on a regular basis.

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Vampire is a dark comedy about the love and hate in a relationship.
A woman’s boyfriend has been missing, but he returned as a vampire one day and strange things have happened.

Animated short film 8min 09sec
Medium: Drawn on paper, crayon, acrylic paint
Graduation film from the Royal College of Art in 2021
Animated and Directed by Zhong Xian
Sound Design by WenChi Liu, Zhong Xian
Colouring assistants:
Phoebe Sun, Stan Chen, Yi Ying Lee,
Ying Zeng(Zing), Yu Hsin Huang, Kea Xie


Awards
-Jury Diploma-
at T-Short Festival, 2022

-1st Mention Award-
at BitBang Festival, 2022

Screenings
-official selection-
2021 London International Animation Festival, London, United Kingdom
2021 San Diego Underground Film Festival, USA
2022 Animac International Animation Film Festival, Catalonia, Spain
2022 T-Short Animated Film Online Festival, Germany
15th International Animation Festival Fest Anča, Žilina, Slovakia
2022 Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland
2022 Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada
2022 PÖFF Shorts, Estonia
2022 Bitbang Festival, Argentina
2023 20th London Short Film Festival, United Kingdom

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Love how silly her animations can be

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I want a cat who wants to feel like he a man
a small practice that I made with some very sloppy and simple sketches in one day.
a music video for FOOLS CIRCLE class at RCA 2020
song and animation are made by me

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Really love how most of the animation is restricted to a simple square, and only red + white. Feels cohesive, simple yet visually interesting

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Westerman - Waiting On Design (Official Audio)

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Collaboration between Braulio Amado for Westerman's album artwork. love use of inky fine line drawings, collage, text

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'All great music is political' - The Guardian 

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'All great music is political' - The Guardian 

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Robert Del Naja talks to the director of Reprieve, Clive Stafford Smith

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Massive Attack are working at Meltdown with the legal action charity Reprieve. Robert Del Naja talks to its director, and champion of the rights of inmates at Guantanamo Bay, Clive Stafford Smith

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'How Massive Attack's Mezzanine predicted a new era for British Music'

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'How Massive Attack's Mezzanine predicted a new era for British Music'

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'Mezzanine was an album of endings... an album that predicted the post-punk revival'

'using rock instrumentation as a building block for something stranger and darker'

'As global politics took a nasty turn, with ‘90s optimism battered by 9/11, the War in Afghanistan and a vicious global recession, ’Mezzanine’s brooding, minimal sound seemed to make even more twisted sense.'

'No wonder new generations are paying attention'

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How Massive Attack’s ‘Mezzanine’ predicted a new era for British music

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Released 25 years ago, Massive Attack’s third album, ‘Mezzanine’, signalled the closing of a chapter for the influential Bristol electronic group, and the beginning of a new one for British music as a whole

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Massive Attack and the theme of surveillance 

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Massive Attack and the theme of surveillance 

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Emerging from a post-industrial Bristol, Massive Attack's music was heavily influenced by multi-culturalism, war, social control, globalisation, racism and surveillance.

The political climate at the time of Mezzanine's release was uncertain. 9/11 transformed people's thoughts on power, control, and the role of technology.

Massive Attack's 2003 album '100th Window' focuses on technological anxiety

Mass data surveillance raised new global political tensions

but what it really grasped was the potential for mass data surveillance and analytics to find, target, exploit, and keep consumer audiences, aided by the rise of social media platforms for expansive advertisement

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The scale and audacity of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, spurred sweeping changes in the way the United States, its partners, and adversaries used the machinery of state and technology to respond to threats. In this Council of Councils global perspectives, five experts reflect on the legacy of the attacks and offer insights into the biggest changes in counterterrorism, human rights, surveillance, international law of war, and border security.

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The 9/11 Effect and the Transformation of Global Security

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The scale and audacity of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, spurred sweeping changes in the way the United States, its partners, and adversaries used the machinery of state and technology to respond to threats.

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The music video for 'Angel' really reflects the sense of collective paranoia at the time. The theme of being followed highlights broader social anxieties about surveillance.

The video is filmed in a dark, urban area, that could be anywhere. It evokes a modern cityscape that most viewers could relate to

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Loved this article from 2003, after the release of Massive Attack's album 100th Window.

'The murk and twitch of Massive Attack's music came to define the band: the urban melancholy, the aching soul, the sepulchral beats'

'Some of the paranoia echoed that of our times - surveillance cameras in every high street, PIN numbers for every transaction, explosives in every holdall forgotten on the Tube. Mistrust is hardwired deep into the human psyche.'

'High-speed digital messages flash across the screen, encompassing stock market tickers to train timetables. Statistics chart the population increase, barrels of oil consumed, a league table of military spending, questions about the war'

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Massive Attack’s malevolent rumbles are not for the faint-hearted.

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Would have loved to enter this as it links to my EP2- would have been great to design a record cover.

Entries were closed :( Maybe next year

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Launched in 2012 and now in its ninth edition, Secret 7" selects seven iconic tracks from globally-renowned musicians.

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Grand Matter's yearly professional development programme for artists at the beginning of their career looking to take the next step.

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Sabin Balasa was a Romanian surrealist and 'cosmic romanticist' painter. His style of animation is completely different to mine, but I particularly like the way he uses transitions, especially using paint. His use of sound is also effective, creating a weird surreal world.

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Overlapping lines/colours/shapes perfect for collaborating

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Really just love the composition of a lot of Molly Fairhurst's work

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Very beautiful, use of pencil + the blurriness adds a dreamy feel

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Really awesome hand painted animation. Working on this project has really made me realise how crazy animations can be, and that they don't have to entirely make sense

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Chosen live brief

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'The Lindy Hop'- a fusion of swing dancing, based on jazz, tap and the charleston

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The history of Authentic Jazz dance (Part 1) - National Jazz Archive

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Dancer, teacher and writer Nikki Santilli explores the development of jazz dance through the different musical eras. This article continues from our recent Top 10 questions about jazz series, which addresses the basic question: What is jazz dance? In this first part of a two-part article, we…

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The 100 Greatest Jazz Album Covers is a visual feast of some of the 20th century’s best design…

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Bird + Diz- Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie 

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Bird + Diz- Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie 

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Oscar Peterson Collates- Oscar Pollates 

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Oscar Peterson Collates- Oscar Pollates 

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Jazz at the Philharmonic vol 2- Norman Granz

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Jazz at the Philharmonic vol 2- Norman Granz

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Jazz at the Philharmonic vol 7- Norman Granz

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Jazz at the Philharmonic vol 7- Norman Granz

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Hamp + Getz- Lionel Hampton and Stan Getz

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Hamp + Getz- Lionel Hampton and Stan Getz

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Coltrane plays the Blues- John Coltrane 

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Coltrane plays the Blues- John Coltrane 

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Reallyyy enjoyed this video. During my 611 project I looked at Alexandra D'Onofrio's collaborative animations based on three Egyptian men's experiences of crossing the Mediterranean sea into Italy. Paint on glass animation is definitely something I'd like to experiment with in the future.

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Animator and painter from Poland. I love that most of her animations are rooted in storytelling. The animations above depicts a tomb stone from 1591 of 'Anna', who was dressed as a nun.

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Acrylic on paper
by Weronika Marianna
2024

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Big fan of this music video. I really like that you can see the texture of the paper. You can tell that it's all hand painted and I think that really adds to its charm.

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Cosmo Sheldrake - Stop The Music (Official Video)

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Screen printed frames for animation- super cool, don't see a lot of printed animation frames

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September 2016 Loop de Loop submission. 
Theme: Neighboors 

Every frame of this loop was screen-printed by hand.

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Gorgeous, love the use of layered backgrounds/animation

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Florist - Have Heaven (Official Music Video)

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Major inspiration in terms of use of material and texture

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Not very relevant to my EP2, but I absolutely love Masuko's work. Uses graphic markers, ink and acrylic paint so that the colours melt into each other.

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A Tribute to Jack Johnson- Miles Davis

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Right Off (feat. Steve Grossman, John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Michael Henderson & Billy Cobham)

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Right Off (feat. Steve Grossman, John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Michael Henderson & Billy Cobham)

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Lansana's Priestess- Donald Byrd

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Animation Music Videos at Fest Anča 2024 (GoCritic! Review)

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Kanako Fujita writes about animation music videos presented during the recent edition of the Fest Anča festival (Zilina, Slovakia), in our GoCritic! reviews.

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Fest Anča International Animation Festival - the only Academy Awards® Qualifying Festival in Slovakia - has just opened its 2025 call for entries. Registration remains open until January 31, 2025.

Only short animated films and music videos - completed after January 1, 2023 and submitted with English subtitles - are accepted into the Festival's competition program.

This year's call for entries is open via FilmFreeway.com . The submission process is open from 31st October 2024 to 31st January 2025 and will take place in three phases. Earlybird submission is free until 30th November 2024. Submissions registered during the period between 1st December and 31st December 2024 will be subject to a registration fee of EUR 5 per film. Submissions registered during the period between 1st January and 31st January 2025 (Late Deadline) will be subject to a registration fee of EUR 10 per film.

If you wish to submit your film, follow this link for more detailed information about our online application process:
At Fest Anča 2025 you can compete for Anča Awards in the following categories:

1. Best Animated Short (€1500)

2. Best Student Animated Short (€1000)

3. Best Animated Music Video (€1000)

4. Best Animated Short for Children (€1000)

5. Best Slovak Animated Short (€1500)

By submitting your film, you agree to our festival regulations.

In case of questions or need of assistance, please contact us at program@festanca.sk .

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Call for Entries Fest Anča 2025! - Fest Anča

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Fest Anča International Animation Festival - the only Academy Awards® Qualifying Festival in Slovakia - has just opened its 2025 call for entries. Registration remains open until January 31, 2025.

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Gifs have been around since the late 80s and have become a part of our digital lexicon, often used as a quick response or as a more complex emoji. But gifs have evolved over the years and they’re now…

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The creative legacy of Gifs: Past, present and future

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The invention of the Gif transformed creative practices overnight, and gave birth to a whole new medium of expression. We dissect this history (or giftory?) speaking to experts and artists about the continued evolution of the funnest file type.

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LET U GO- animated by Jean-Baptiste Bertholom

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LET U GO- animated by Jean-Baptiste Bertholom

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entered into fest anca

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LET U GO - Baba Yebta (réalisé par Jean-Baptiste Bertholom)

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entered into fest anca

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Our Sustainable Cider Brand Inch's is here!

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‘In Unfinished Sympathy, continuing is something the singer both fears (there’s a sense of foreboding in those ominous orchestral strings), and also desires – she can’t help but think of “the curiousness of your potential kiss”. It’s that “potential” that’s so captured in the song.’ - Records from a Rented Room, The Guardian

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‘Songs that feel complete reflect life’s incompletion’

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In the second of Anita Sethi’s series exploring a vinyl collection discovered in her flat, Massive Attack’s Unfinished Sympathy leads to a happy ending for Schubert

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Showreel- something I'd like to make in the future

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A compilation of my animation work: student films, client projects, and personal work. Thanks for watching!

Contact: alishaliu@alum.calarts.edu

Music: Night Drive 2.0 by Shinichiro Yokota

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Animation within advertising- Jasmine Dowling

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Animation within advertising- Jasmine Dowling

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Feels quite similar to my style of work- simple inked lines

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One day a humble fisherman catches an enchanted fish. Can the fish help him, and his wife improve their lot? The Flounder is an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm tale ‘The Fisherman and his Wife’.
A film by Elizabeth Hobbs, made in collaboration with Composer Carola Bauckholt. Produced by Animate Projects, Commissioned by Klangforum Wien for the Happiness Machine project. #FlounderFilm

Best Professional Film at Turku Animated Film Festival 2019
Best of the Fest at London International Animation Festival 2019
Best Sound Design at London International Animation Festival 2019

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Incredibly stunning. I love the use of linework, looks like ink is her material of choice.

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In 1915, Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka’s tempestuous love affair with Alma Mahler ended dramatically and he volunteered to fight in the First World War. I’m OK explores Kokoschka’s frame of mind following his heartbreak and the traumatic experience of war, by reflecting on the artist’s prints and paintings.

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Love the way he draws plants and flowers. Massive inspiration for how I draw mine.

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Little fun gif. These types of gifs are normally the ones that do better on social media

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Wowwwww. So wacky. I think it's been done digitally, with some hand drawn textures that makes it really interesting

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Would love to create something similar for my own animations

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Company that represents animator's artwork. Partners with animators, directors, music artists. Involved in advertising, music, gaming, fashion

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Homepage | Blinkink | London Production Studio

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London based production studio. Award-winning & innovative advertising animation. We cover advertisement, music & broadcast industries. Call +44 (0) 20 3909 1760.