Posts Tagged: animation

Weekendy / Worky — No Comments
24
Dec 09

So here’s my Twelve Links of Christmas

Fol­low­ers of my tweets may have noticed their twit­ter­ing calm punc­tu­ated by the occa­sional #12linksofChristmas over the past couple of weeks.

These are like­able links that I’ve found enjoy­able, enlight­en­ing or just plain inter­est­ing over the past 12 months.

Humbled by its appar­ent pop­ular­ity, I’ve been asked to pub­lish the Twelve Links in their entirety (with apo­lo­gies for the inclu­sion of the bit.ly links, but speed is of the essence on Christ­mas Eve). So here they are; all in one place.

To read­ers of my blog — because there are some (!) — con­sider this my way of saying ‘thank you’ for paying atten­tion to my sporadic posts from time to time in 2009. Next year, I plan to be a little bit more fre­quent in my postings.

Res­ol­u­tions eh?! Con­tinue reading →

Worky — 1 Comment
10
Sep 09

Animating the issues of US healthcare reform

From this side of the pond, it’s been quite tricky keep­ing tabs on what exactly is at the heart of the US health­care reform debate that’s raging in the United States.

So, if you take the prose of award-winning author John Green and the cre­at­ive talent of the people at Thought Bubble, and mix it together, the result is a suc­cinct, ser­i­ous but enga­ging ana­lysis of the issues up for grabs.

This video does what good com­mu­nic­a­tion design always does: it makes the appar­ently com­plex more easy to under­stand and engage with.

The issues — at least from Mr Green’s per­spect­ive — were much clearer once I viewed this. I wonder if you’ll think the same?

Weekendy — 1 Comment
19
Jun 09

Something for the weekend…

The anim­at­ors art has always inspired my admir­a­tion. I just can’t ima­gine being so patient that I’d pursue a cre­at­ive vision by metic­u­lously craft­ing a nar­rat­ive, frame by frame by frame.

So when I saw Bang-Yao Liu’s stop motion anim­a­tion (above), which I came across at Swiss Miss’s blog earlier this week, I wanted to share it.

Just how long did this take? But what a bril­liantly simple idea, bril­liantly executed.