Animation With A Message

I feel that people sometimes underestimate the social and emotional impact that animation can have on viewers. This video is an animation that shows an extremely moving and somewhat sad message, but it’s a beautiful piece of work. The video is displaying the idea that people try to reach the unreachable and the “perfect face” behind the screen. The media causes people to have these desires. The artist, Andrew Huang, does an amazing job of creating a relatable piece of artwork that displays a meaningful significance through animation.

Bjork Music Video

One of the first posts I did was about a video called Solipsist by Andrew Huang. Well here's another great video by him but this time it's a music video for the very talented singer Bjork. A lot of Andrew's work from Solipsist is similar in this video. This video also incorporates animation of sand, moving creatures and vibrant colors. The animation is mind-blowing and very unique. This video was nominated for the Webby Awards, and it's pretty obvious why. Andrew makes these creatures come alive with it's juxtaposition of faces and these odd contraptions. Awesome video just check it out I don't really do it justice.

Solipsist Short Film amazing use of green screen

The title of this magnificent video is called Solipsist, meaning that the self is all that can be known to exist. Its a belief anything outside of your own mine is unsure and does not exist. Andrew Huang directed this short film which was honored at the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase at Cannes Lions and won Best Experimental Short Film at the Slamdance Film Festival. This film also caught the attention of singer Bjork, who hired him to direct his music video “Mutual Core”. I decided to share this video because of the unique combination of amazing art/costume design with special effects done in post. In the first part, the girls were shot in front of a green screen however their costumes were real and were moved by string during the shoot. Their faces however were done in post, where they created the moving little snakes with CGI and placed them on their faces. The last part with the sand men, was shot in front of a green screen. They filmed actual sand separately going through a hole and replaced their faces with what they shot during post. Although this video is aesthetically pleasing and amazing to watch, the process to make it isn’t as difficult as we think. This film also had amazing audio that made the costumes seem alive and underwater. Hopefully we’ll be learning the basics in green screening and can learn how this is done. Bellow the video is the behind the scenes on how they made it. 

Solipsist

I love StumbleUpon, and it's mostly because I can randomly find amazing videos like this. I Stumbled onto this experimental short film this morning, which recently won some awards at Sundance.

SOLIPSIST from Andrew Huang on Vimeo.

At first, I wasn't that impressed by what I was seeing. But once the fabric and string started to grow over the women's faces, I realized that this film was much more complex than I originally thought. And then at the end, when the men's faces start to deteriorate into sand and then explode, I was amazed. The special effects that they did were so complex, and I looks like a lot of work went into creating this film.

One the same page as the film, there was a short video showing some of the behind the scenes of making this movie. They don't explain anything, but I gave me a better idea of what the filmmakers had to do. Watching the sand was particularly interesting.