Timothy Walter Burton (from now rather just Tim Burton) celebrates his 60th birthday! If Tim had been born a few years earlier, in 1913,he would have invited Walt Kelly to celebrate with him. Walt Kelly was Disney animator, who would have to blow out 105 beautiful candles today. But back to Burton, who is animating […]
Author: Karolína Čížková
Interview with founder of Prague Splash Festival Michal Benda
The 14.th Splash Festival in September will be full of workshops, lectures, and opportunities to meet professionals and studies around the world. Speaking about computer animation, modeling in 3D, storytelling, computer games, visual effects or the concept of art and illustration. Michal Benda is the head of the whole festival and we could not ask […]
Swedish animation studio Mindbender a their original animation
In the Swedish animation studio Mindbender there is a charming short 3D animated film The Food Thief with a cuute little cat! Funny stylization also doesn´t missing in other creations that these Swedes are wandering into the world. Because of the great animation and realistic structures, we even forgave the studio for cooperation on The […]
Interview: animator Jasper Kuipers (NL) about Netherlands animation
Jasper Kuipers is important part of our Animator´s Calendar 2018, his art was graced in June. Jasper is animator from Netherlands who has already finished short stop-motion animation movie Finity Calling. You can see the movie in many animation festivals around the world. We asked Jasper about animation schools and animation industry in Netherlands. He […]
Interview: Denisa Grimmova & Jan Bubenicek about Czech Animation Industry
Animators, artists and directors Denisa Grimmova and Jan Bubenicek are working on the production of the feature animated film Even Mise belong to Heaven (Fresh Films). In the interview, you will read not only about the making of the Mice, but also about the evolution of animation studies in FAMU (Film and TV Academy in […]
Interview: Ilaria Comisso about the relation with the marionette and the animation puppet
We met Ilarii Comiso at the November Doll Prague Exhibition. She presented her wooden marionettes and we were next to with Animuj stand. We just fell in the eye and all weekend we talked (not only) about animation and puppets. Ilaria is from Italy, but lives in Berlin. In addition to marionettes, she also produces […]
2.díl: Making of the Goose: real puppet and a ball to 3D
As we already wrote in the last post, where we showed you the complete 3D modeling of a realistic model of the house, we will look now how to transform real model of puppet to digital 3D. Then is same puppet animated in digital form. The result is original look and you still feel the […]
1. part: Making of the film Goose: making animation props
As promised in the last article, where we write about the newly created combined animated film the Goose (2020) by Jan Mika from Filmofon studio, we bring you the first making of video! Although a large part of the film comes from animation software, the preparation phase can not be done without the model´s making. […]
Interview: Tom & Hani Animation stop-motion studio (Israel)
Tom & Hani Animation is an Israel animation stop-motion studio from Tel Aviv. Animators Tom Kouris and Hani Dombe are part of Animator´s Calendar for 2018, so we bring you an inspirational interview where successful artists present not only their way of production, but also the possibilities of film´s financing and animation studies in Israel. […]
Jan Mika presents his next combined animated film the GOOSE!
We have great news for all enthusiasts in combined animation! The Czech director, artist and animator Jan Míka jr., who is still flying around world animation festivals today with his latest animated film We’re Human, After All (2016), is already working on producing another animated film called the Goose! This short animated movie will be ready […]