A Paper Theater Brought to Life With Light Projection. The Ice Book By Davy McGuire.

Davy McGuire is a director of film, theater and video art. He creates productions for stage, screen and exhibition spaces that blend elements of film, animation, theatre, puppetry, installation art and good old-fashioned illusions.



His latest piece, created with choreographer and dancer wife Kristin, uses light projection on a series of small paper cut out pop-ups combined with film projection and animation for a hauntingly beautiful effect.






The Ice Book is the story of a princess who lures a boy into the forest in order to warm her heart of ice.



His showreel:

Davy McGuire

via W&LeCie via NOTCOT

New Nathan Love Animated Thanksgiving Promo For NBC

The latest collaboration between illustrator/director Nathan Love and NBC to wish their viewing audience a Happy Thanksgiving holiday is this 30 second promo which starts airing today.



Client: NBC Artworks
Director: Nathan Love
Creative Director: Joe Burrascano
Art Director: Anca Risca
Animation Director: Ryan Moran
Rigging: Dan Vislocky, Frank Naranjo
FX Animation: Stieg Retlin
Sound Design & Music: Drew Skinner

Meet Marcel The Shell With Shoes On.

If you haven't yet met Marcel, you're missing out. So let me introduce you.



Marcel the Shell with shoes on is a delightful little character in this stop motion animated short directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp and voiced (not enhanced) by actress, comedienne, writer and 2009-2010 SNL cast member Jenny Slate. The short film was written by both Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp.

Sweet and sad (in a Charlie Brown sort of way), Marcel has gone viral in a big way. And you can see why. Just watch the 3 minute and 20 second video below.




above left: Jenny Slate, the voice and co-creator of Marcel the shell, above right.

Marcel is so adored, he even made the New York magazine matrix - in the HighBrow/ Brilliant quadrant!

Marcel:


"Bestie by Bestie," is a web series about friendship that the former SNL star and her comedy partner (and life long bestie) Gabe Liedman screen at their weekly stand-up show. The video series is also directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp and the premiere episode can be viewed here.

Special thanks to my friend Jean Rhode who turned me onto this little guy.

UPDATE:
Now there's more Marcel to love. Check out the sequel, new book, and mobile apps here!

Award-Winning Animated Short Film "Love & Theft"

This seven minute animated short film has been the recipient of numerous awards for both music and animation. With script, direction and animation by Andreas Hykade and artwork by Natalia Eck. (Full credits at the end of this post)



The name of the film, Love & Theft, was inspired by the Bob Dylan album:


"And I'm still carrying the gift you gave,
It's a part of me now, it's been cherished and saved,
It'll be with me unto the grave
And then unto eternity."
(Bob Dylan)




stills from the video arranged by colored backgrounds, courtesy of Andreas Hykade:




CREDITS
Script, direction: Andreas Hykade
Design, animation: Andreas Hykade
Animation assistance: Angela Steffen
Art work: Natalia Eck
Compositing: Christof Hoffmann
Sound, Music: Heiko Maile
Funding: MFG and FFA
Production assistance: Simone Fischer
Production: Thomas Meyer-Hermann
Studio FILM BILDER 2010

Awards:
Sacem Award for original music
Vienna Independent Short Film Award
Music Award, International Film Festival Annecy, 2010
Music Award, International Short Film Festival Hamburg, 2010
Special Award, Animafest Zagreb, 2010
Music for Animation Award, Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart, 2010
Honorable Mention, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 2010

And the short film has also been nominated at the Fantoche Festival, Animator Festival, FEST Espinho and Anima Mundi Festival,

Logorama Takes Home The Oscar. Here's The Whole Animated Short Film.

UPDATE: As I suspected 48 hours after this post went up, they have disabled the link to view the entire film online. Below are two different trailers for the film now. My apologies.

Logorama, a 16 minute movie, took home the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film last night. As you can imagine, many of the sites that previously has this short feature online have quickly disabled it, but I've got both the trailer and the whole film for you (until someone disables the link):

The trailer:


The whole film:

Directed by H5 (François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain), the short animated film featurtes more than 2500 logos which make up spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis, wild animals rampaging through the city... and much more.





Geek Details (thanks to Aeromental)

• The yellow persons on the streets are the logo from the Messenger of AOL.
• The Quicktime logo is a clock in the caffeteria
• For Pixar’s Wall-E fans, you can see the Buy N Large logo
• The Bar Equalizer from the Helicopter was the logo of Cisco Systems
• The earthquake in the city formed the X-Box logo, ironically destroying the Windows building and IBM
• The road near the mountains forms the VAIO logo.
• When the car crashes against a tree, many old Apple logos fall, the multicolor version.
• The cactus were made with the standard USB icon.
• The butterflies are the MSN logo.
• The floating W is for Microsoft Word.
• Sony Ericsson is the Moon.
• Internet Explorer appears as a planet.

You can also find Logorama in full length on iTunes (in case by the time you see this, they've figured out I posted the whole thing and disable it).

Honoring Mom With A Beaver, A Bird & A Bee (and a downloadable card!)

In celebration of Mother's Day, Zune Arts, the program that aims to bring the best creative minds together to collaborate on inspiring works of art, has released a new video "Mother Like No Other." The new work is a short film created by French animator, Yves Geleyn, set to the delicate music of The Bird And The Bee's track "Come As You Were". Available now at Zune-Arts.net, the film "Mother Like No Other" also comes with a unique downloadable Mother's Day card that fans can print out to give to their moms for Mother's Day.



This heart-warming tale follows a young beaver and his cardinal friend on a collaborative journey to create a beautiful bouquet for the beaver's mother. With a twist ending, this unique 2D animation film demonstrates just how far some will go to show appreciation for mom. Fans can see a previously released behind-the-scenes video that follows animator Yves through his New York studio during film production here.

Zune Arts recently announced the availability of Zune Arts content through a new podcast series, which showcases a broad selection of today's cutting edge cultural artists expressing themselves through film, music, design and illustration. In addition to showing these works, the podcast series will feature artist interviews, exclusive content, behind-the-scenes videos and more.

For more information about Zune Arts podcast subscription, visit here
For more on Yves Geleyn and Hornet Inc., visit here
For more on The Bird and the Bee, visit the Zune Social here