Youtube Examples

I found some examples of all different types of animations on YouTube.  Here are some of them I liked and wanted to write about:

Hitchhikers Choice

This white-board animation by "Kristoferstrom" Interested me.  It is incredibly imaginative and creative and has many transformations (something changing to something else).  He gave me many ideas for what I could potentially try for my animation.  I thought this animation was very creative and very well put together.  It was extremely smooth and must have a very high rate of frames per second to achieve this.  I liked the way that his finger and hand would interact with the animation and change it.

Rymdreglage - 8-bit trip

This was created by a group of people who call themselves "Rymdreglage" on YouTube.  It is an animation made entirely of Lego.  I liked this approach to animation because Lego is a common, every day object.  I think this is one of the reasons that this animation is so good.  Because of the block shapes, the animation looks like a video game made of pixels and this is reflected in the content of the animation because it is about computer games.  I thought this was an excellent example of taking something simple, in this case Lego, and creating something amazing from it.

Wallace and Gromit

Wallace and Gromit is directed by "Nick Park" and is a well known show about a man and dog.  The characters are 3D Plasticine models so they are easy to move.  Wallace and Gromit is a classic example of stop-motion-animation with a very high number of frames per second, making the animation very smooth flowing with realistic movements.  This is because it is a professional TV show and and lot of time and care would be taken over each episode to make sure it is perfect.

Autumn Story

This is a chalkboard animation created by Yanni Kronenberg that is a music video to the song "Autumn story".  It includes many transformations that are cleverly thought over and done very well.  Some of these transformations are unexpected and very clever the way a shape becomes something else (eg. the boat and the eye)  The whole animation is very creative and I liked how the rubbing-out of the previous drawing could still be seen as it gives it a sense of time passing and movement and it gives the animation a real "chalkboard" feel to it.

Paper Horse Test

This was by a YouTube user called "Nosnoma" and is more of a test rather than a proper animation with a story-line.  It is made using paper and paper cut-outs.  There is almost no detail on the characters and the idea is simple but it would have taken a lot of care and a very long time to perfect this experiment.  I thought it was very clever and an interesting experiment.  The movement of the horse is much like Eadweard Muybridge's galloping horse experiment but in a different concept and I find it interesting that such an early animation idea is still being used in animations and experiments today.

Her Morning Elegance

This is a photographic animation by a group of artists and animators who call themselves "QuarterPastWonderful".  It is made from a series of images involving people and every time a picture is taken, the models move and then another picture is taken etc. I like it because it takes simple, everyday objects and things and turns them into something else creative, imaginative and inspiring.