VFX Inspiration: "Cardboard Warfare is Hell"

Here is a insanely cool video that uses cardboard (strongly reminding me of Rob Schrab's Drawless Animation) and After Effects:



Full details on how this video was made can be found over at Gizmodo.  Click here to find out more.

Animating A Still Image

Video Co-Pilot has posted a new tutorial on how to animate a still image.  It's one of the neatest tutorials that can be found at the site.  Go here for the full tutorial.

A LOOK SOMETHING I'M WORKING ON

Here is a pic of the mini-set that I am building for a short film/music vid. At the moment I am weathering it a bit and plan on adding stained glass windows and steampunkish lab equipment. More coming soon.

COUNT SCHLOCKULA

Don't mean to interrupt the 31 Days of Halloween-related how-to's, but I wanted to show you readers the third monster puppet that I am working on for a project of mine: Count Schlockula.

ANOTHER SNEAK PEEK: THE MUMMY

Here is another sneak peek at the second puppet that I created for the music vid/short film that I'm working on:

The body itself is a paper towel tube which had a mouth piece cut out and another tube inserted inside for the teeth. It is able to move its mouth up and down by use of a string that I pull on and a rubber band inside pulls the mouth back upward to it's original position.

The bandages was a tea-dyed cloth that I cut into strips and the head itself is constructed mostly from paper clay which I am still not sold on using the material ever again yet.

Related:
Franken-Joe
Drawless Animation

FRANKEN-JOE

Want to know what I've been up to these past few days? Here is a sneak peek:They are obviously inspired by Rob Schrab's Drawless Animation which I keep preaching here.

AMERICAN ROBOTS IN AMERISPACE - PILOT EPISODE

Here is some nifty Drawless Animation for your Thursday:



(more can be found here)

AMERICAN ROBOTS IN AMERISPACE -TEASER

Here is a teaser for the upcoming Drawless Animated flick AMERICAN ROBOTS IN AMERISPACE.

Production video journals can be found here and the the AK5000 Commercial can be seen here. Also for more Drawless Animation grooviness check out these past posts on the topic.

WARNING: THE TRAILER DOES CONTAIN SOME LANGUAGE THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED Not Safe For Squares or NSFS or NSFW.



P.S. I swear I'm not trying to turn this into a all Youtube blog. I'm in the middle of tons of project related stuff and I promise to get some real DIY articles back online soon. Stay weird!

YET ANOTHER PUPPET MAKING TUTORIAL IN DRAWLESS ANIMATION STYLE

This is a fantastic and humorous, puppet making tutorial, and although it's not stated as Drawless Animation, I still feel that it shares the same ideas in the sense that bits of cheap junk can be made into something all kinds of awesome.

Below is a behind-the-scenes vid from a puppet podcast called JIGSAW. The full scoop can be found over at Puppetvision where I found this vid. Check it out:

ANOTHER DRAWLESS ANIMATION VID

AK5000 Commerical - American Robots in Amerispace. More Drawless Animation here.

DRAWLESS ANIMATION FEVER

I recently did a recent search for Rob Schrab's invented Drawless Animation technique and discovered that in recent months people have got the urge to try it on their own. Here are some nifty examples:

PROFESSOR QUIMBY SCREEN TEST #2



DRAWLESS ANIMATION TEST


A PUPPET TEST

MORE DRAWLESS ANIMATION

My DVR skipped last week's SARAH SILVERMAN SHOW for the sake of other Halloween goodies, which is a damn shame considering that I missed out on some more of Rob Schrab's cool drawless animation technique. A technique which I plan on using on a upcoming project for those taking notes.

Anyway check out this nifty behind the scenes clip of the show which reveals some more of Schrab's drawless puppet and tricks on a much grander scale. Check it out :

WARNING: THE VID COULD BE CONSIDERED NSFW AND NOT SAFE FOR SQUARES - NSFS


Click here for more drawless grooviness.

RINGWALD AND MOLLY

Last week I mentioned the four-minute film school that comic artist/filmmaker Rob Schrab taught which concerned his style of puppetry called "Drawless Animation".

Inside that film school was a glimpse of the Ringwald and Molly puppets that he used for the RINGWALD AND MOLLY show which had a run of a few episodes. These episodes were originally made for Channel 101, but like most great shows on the site it was later voted out or what they call being canceled.

Today I thought that I would post some episodes that I found on Youtube to give you a better idea of how cool Rob Schrab's chosen style of puppetry can be and how you too can do the same thing on quite an inexpensive budget. Be sure to buy the DVD if you get a chance.

I do feel that I should warn some of you that some episodes do have certain themes that could be considered NSFW but only by squares. Dig it!





Also see:
Rob Schrab's four minute film school
CROOKED TEETH music video directed by Rob Schrab

DRAWLESS ANIMATION - THE FOUR MINUTE SCHOOL

As you may recall I am a huge fan of Rob Schrab, especially his method of animating which he has named drawless animation. Well here is a four minute Indy Mogul film school on that style hosted by Schrab himself.

Also check out this older post for more Rob Schrab love.

ROB SCHRAB'S CROOKED TEETH VIDEO

It's no secret that I get super excited about puppets, so you can understand how much I dig this video. It's the music video CROOKED TEETH for the band DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE which was directed by Rob Schrab of SCUD and SARAH SILVERMAN SHOW fame. The second part is a bit of a behind-the-scenes. Dig it!