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By David Schonauer Friday May 31, 2013
One of the leading young fine-art photographers in the world, Julia Fullerton-Batten is best known for projects tracing the transition of adolescent girls into womanhood. More recently she herself has
transitioned into filmmaking. "It was a huge learning curve," she says of the switch from still to motion. Among her early filmmaking efforts is an advertising spot created for Breast Cancer Care, the
UK's … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Friday May 17, 2013
Jason Willis's International Motion Art Awards-winning short cost only $25 to make, and that money, he says, almost all went to buying ... catnip. Willis, who describes himself as "a big fan of
oddball films," is in particular a devotee of old classroom educational films, and he set out to create one of his own. His subject: The bad trips awaiting felines who imbibe … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Monday May 13, 2013
Chris Sickels's specialty is creating two-dimensional print illustrations by photographing three-dimensional puppets. So branching into stop-motion animation was certainly not a big jump for him. "My
interest in stop-motion grew out of my childhood love of the Rankin/Bass stop-motion films of the 1960s and from my exposure to the Spike and Mike's animation festivals during my college years," he
says. Sickels was named a … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Friday May 10, 2013
What should a woman do if she finds out her boyfriend has a penchant for taking photos of neighbors "focusing on breasts and butts?" That was the question put to the popular "Dear Prudence"
personal-advice column of Slate magazine. And how should such a topic of discussion be illustrated? Animator Rob Donnelly chose to reference the greatest of all cinematic voyeurs, L.B. Jefferies, the … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Monday April 22, 2013
Illustrator and animator Aimee Van Drimmelen lives in a small house in Victoria, British Columbia, where, she says, she makes art by day and music by night. And it was music--not her own, but the
single "H.C." from the Canadian indie-rock band Plants and Animals--that inspired her International Motion Art Awards-winning short. "The band had seen my first animated piece and liked it, and … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Friday April 19, 2013
We continue our series spotlighting winners of the first annual International Motion Art Awards with a haunting piece of animation that brings graphic life to modern Russian literature. British
animator Andy Acourt's IMAA-winning short was made to accompany a reading of author Vladimir Sorokin's "The Day of the Oprichnik"--a tale set in a Russia in which a member of the Oprichnik (secret
police) is … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Monday March 18, 2013
Last week we spotlighted photographer and filmmaker RJ Muna's International Motion Art Awards-winning "Written in the Margins," a unique stop-motion video about finding oneself in a place without
remembering the steps taken to get there. Today we feature another IMAA-winning video from Muna, "Crosswalk." The perceptive 3:56 piece contemplates life in the slow lane--that is, the demarcated path
we use to get from one … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Friday March 8, 2013
RJ Muna's video "Written in the Margins" is, he says, your typical "boy meets girl, boy goes crazy, girl calms him down, happy ending" kind of story. But Muna, an award-winning photographer based in
San Francisco who has transitioned to filmmaking, is less interested in narrative than image: His intriguing stop-motion piece, actually a kind of backward stop-motion, is a hazy meditation on what … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Friday February 22, 2013
Our look at winners from the first International Motion Art Awards continues with filmmaker Michael Wiehart's 3:20 short "RE:LEASE," an abstract narrative--he calls it "a musical travelog through an
atmospheric world in black white and red"--that combines live action and show-motions shots of liquids captured with a high-speed digital camera and 3D animation. The inspiration for this astonishing
piece of motion art was science: … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Thursday February 14, 2013
Continuing with our series featuring winners of the first annual International Motion Art Awards, we spotlight an astonishing animated cri de coeur from illustrator Louisa Bertman. Her 31-second piece
graphically immortalizes the real-life moment from March 26, 2011, when a Libyan woman, Iman al-Obeidi, burst into the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli to tell members of the foreign press that she had been
raped and … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Wednesday January 30, 2013
Continuing with our series featuring winners of the first annual International Motion Art Awards, we feature Danijel Zezelj's intriguing and beautiful animated short "A Different Bunny," the story "of
small bunny in a big city looking for love in the wrong place." Zezelj, a Brooklyn-based graphic novelist, painter, animator, and illustrator, made the two-and-a-half minute film as experiment to
research using still images in … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Wednesday January 30, 2013
We continue with our series spotlighting winners from the first International Motion Art Awards, which honor the year's best art and design in a variety of motion genres: Today we feature photographer
and transitioning filmmaker Dario Acosta's "The Music At My Fingertips," a 2:26 live-action video portrait of the pianist Xiayin Wang. Acosta, who specializes in photographing classical musicians and
singers, had just finished … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Friday January 25, 2013
Our series featuring winners of the first annual International Motion Awards continues with a 44-second stop-motion illustration titled Skyscraper, created for the digital version of Wired magazine.
"The magazine's 'Play' section was featuring daredevils. There were many kinds of adrenaline junkies being featured, but the opening motion illustration needed to be about one daredevil genre: the
human cannonball," says photographer and transitioning filmmaker Hugh … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Tuesday January 22, 2013
Today we launch a series featuring winners of the first International Motion Awards. The competition, created by the American Illustration-American Photography group, uniquely honors the year's best
art and design in a variety of motion genres, from live action/photography and animation to motion graphics/design and student work. We start with "Boxcar Fair," a music video created by photographer
and filmmaker Andrew Kornylak, along with … Read the full Story >>
