This is a great fifteen minute video about how Terry Gilliam does his iconic Monty Python cut out animations. The key is story, story boarding and simplicity. I get the feeling that he had to work under tight deadlines and keeping the technique simple was the key to the quick turn around. Or else, he was just lazy and he popularized a technique that didn’t require a lot of work.
It’s great way to ease into the reality that the holiday is over.
Lizzie Oxby is a London-based filmmaker, photographer and illustrator. Her recent work includes Late Noon Sun for the UK Arts Council (see extracts here), and the Daydreams series of animated shorts. One of these, Manhattan 4.33pm, was recently selected as a finalist in Raindance‘s Welcome to the Extraordinary short film competition.
PCN got in touch to ask Lizzie about her journey through photography, into filmmaking, and eventual transition to DSLR techniques using a Canon 500D, and more recently a 5D.
We started off asking Lizzie to explain her choices of filmmaking equipment, and to our surprise and delight got a detailed history of her changing creative techniques.
Andrew Kornylak is doing some amazing things in the great outdoors, putting still photos together in sequence to make multimedia in a style he calls “stillmotion”.
In this Digital Photo Pro article, Kornylak explains the idea. It’s photography meets stop motion animation, meets pop video meets slideshow.
Sit yourself down, free up 15 minutes of your time, and drown yourself in The Third and The Seventh, an amazing piece of video from Alex Roman.
It would be an amazing piece of work if it had been produced by traditional means; it’s even more impressive when you learn that almost everything you see here is computer-generated.
