Sunday 2 January 2011

Todor & Petru

This animation from CRCR is a short abstract action movie which utilizes digital video and frame by frame animation. It features two men sort of fighting this monster thing which I don't really understand but it looks great. I can't tell for sure whether the digital film part of the movie is actually frame by frame photography creating a stop motion animation or whether it is just normal digital video recording with the effect which picks out every couple of frames and elongates them to create the stop motion effect but it works to the same effect either way.

As for the cartoon style monster thing animation, kit was very likely done on Adobe Flash. You can tell because it has been manipulated frame by frame in ways that it cant have just been transformed in after effects. Flash can work in a much more classical form of animation where each frame is redrawn and then shown in quick succession to create the illusion of movement. I can't think of a way that this could really be re-created in after effects but it shows a good understanding of flash animation techniques.

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