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To help us explore this technique, we invited one of the best living ‘direct’ animators, Canada’s Steven Woloshen, to be our guest at LIAF 2010. Steven hosted a sell-out two day Masterclass and Workshop where he demonstrated to participants the skills required to make their own animation.
When I was 12 years old, my little suburb […]
Sand animation? Literally creating animated films one frame at a time by manipulating images with sand – or coloured salt, coffee or a range of other powders. Each year LIAF takes a look at a particular way of creating animated films and this year’s ‘TECHNIQUE FOCUS’ has its origins in a major festival of sand […]
Croatia has an enviable record in the world of creative animation. But the production of animated film there follows the travails of the extraordinary political history of the region. The mid 1950’s through the 1960’s were roundly regarded as animating golden age in Croatia and some of the finest films from that era are featured […]
London based animation director Jonathan Hodgson has been making award winning animated films since the early 1980s and is probably best known for his BAFTA winning adaptation of Charles Bukowski’s poem ‘The Man with the Beautiful Eyes’. As well as making short films he has made a name for himself as a commercials director and […]
Ninety years after our little metamorphic friend was created he still keeps on walking and, despite various attempts to re-create him with colour and sound, the original cartoons, with their flat perspective and at times crude animation, has never been surpassed.
Why not? Because they are inventive and demand attention. They capitalise on the visual image […]
The history of Russian puppet animation dates back to the 1900s when a bored public servant named Vladislav Starevich decided to take his amateur hobby of entomology a step further.
Using his extensive bug collection he dived into filmmaking. His first five-minute film “Wonderful Lukanida or the Battle of the Whiskered Versus the Horned” premiered in […]
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