Digital Media - CNET News: "The Sundance Institute's decision to open its upcoming film festival with a clay animation flick shines a light on one of the oldest forms of filmmaking--molded with a modern day twist.
Robert Redford's film institute last week announced that the opening night film at its annual festival in January will be Mary and Max, a feature-length movie directed by Australian animator Adam Elliot and produced by Melanie Coombs of Melodrama Pictures. Elliot and Coombs' 2004 Sundance film, Harvie Krumpet, went on to win the Academy Award for best-animated short film."
3 comments:
This software sounds really really cool. I love clay animation, and to see it opening Sundance is a great thing for me. I have a feeling that this piece is going to be amazing. I also think that as people start developing "claymation" techniques, these software programs will become much more advanced.
I'm sure this will be very useful to animators and stop-motion people. I really enjoy watching stop-motion films more than pure animated films because I know how much work went into it and it's a completely real image for the most part. It's rare for Sundance to have animated films but I'm sure it has it playing at the beginning so that it isn't lost or not seen somewhere in the middle when people are looking for films of their choice.
Ooo, stop motion! Stop motion is becoming really overlooked as computer animation gets more and more advanced. Luckily, there are movies like Coraline to remind us just how awesome it is. I'm more a fan of Wallace and Grommit, where you can see thumb prints on the characters' foreheads as opposed to Tim Burton films, where everything is so perfect and lifeless it might as well be done by a particularly unskilled computer.
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