More animation

As I stated before, animations of all kinds fascinate me.  A few days ago I watched these animations in my KI course and was blown away by the amount of planning and effort put into these.

The first animation is by the artist Blu.  Over the course of many days Blu painted the entire project on various walls throughout Buenos Aires and Baden.  A normal animation has between 15 to 30 frames per second, I do not know how many fps this is but to constantly paint huge murals over one another, especially outside in public places were they could be defaced, or the weather could ruin them, etc, is quite frankly amazing.

I find the images fascinating, yet disturbing. They move very fluidly, are incredibly creepy, are 

very whimsical, and somewhat disgusting (at least to me). Blu's website can be found here 

http://www.blublu.org/ if anyone wants to see anymore of his wonderful art works.

Another animation that is equally fascinating is Yellow Sticky Notes, a hand drawn animation by animation filmmaker Jeff  Chiba Stearns.  In this animation, done entirely on yellow sticky notes (about 2300), Stearns reflects on his life over the past nine years and the major world events that occurred during it.  I find this animation particularly fascinating because the medium is so simple and the drawings are very stylized and recognizable but are used in very creative ways.  It is also very relatable for many people and goes through everyday events, such as breaking up with someone, attending college, and moving to name a few, among the devastating national events that everyone was effected by (the Twin Towers and the current war).