PCF Studios

PCF Studios:
This is a local, Up-state New York, artist's company. His name is Philippe Faraut, and his focus is on Sculpture.










He lives in Honeoye New York, and teaches a small class on sculpting. I find his work both interesting and inspiring. He does many different kinds of sculptures like stone, bronze and clay. The style of his work is very realistic which I find intriguing. It is not easy to master the art of reality and in my opinion it is the hardest form of art to take on. This goes for all areas of art, film, sculpture, painting, drawing, etc.

Each and every one of his pieces I find telling a story. Within every one of them I find myself forming an internal analysis for who they might be and where they might have come from. They are all very expressive and are good examples for characters one must create in stories. 

(Einstein recreation)

As seen above he also does some work with recreating people from pictures. 

(Philippe working)

His wife takes all the photos for his web page and I think there is something very beautiful about the lighting in these photos that everyone can take something away from. The lighting helps to show the contours of each piece of work and is very contrasted with light and dark areas. 

Finally Philippe Faraut has also done forensic work with facial recreation from only bones. 

This is just another talent of his. Through examining the human skull he can determine the muscular composition and then the rest falls into place. 

Philippe Faraut is an artist that inspires. His works are beautiful and there is a lesson to be learned in every one of his sculptures. 

Check out his Website:   http://www.pcfstudios.com 

Grizzly Bear Music Video

A couple years ago, one of my favorite bands Grizzly Bear came out with a music video to their song Ready, Able. I know I posted a claymation video last week, but this one is really amazing too. The main character in this is a weird creature whose body is always moving. This goes as well for the other animals in the music video. This must have taken so long to make since little corners on them are constantly going up and down. They also show the creatures melting and being created, or getting bigger and smaller. This tedious claymation has an eery effect when they show a row of faces melting in and out as well. The colors of the clay also stand out and blend together really beautifully. I really want to make a music video using claymation, not to this extent but something similar. The claymation in this doesn’t have anything to do with the song, but creates a compelling effect. You almost start to pity this creature, who looks so helpless and lonely. 

Stop Motion Animation

This is just a cool video I came across on Vimeo. It's facts about the GIF file and it's interesting how they show it through different material. I like the clay animation they use to make words and the sound effects are really cool and bring it to life.

A Short History of the Gif | Moving the Still from LEGS MEDIA on Vimeo.

Penguins and Stop-Motion Animation

My roommate Alex does a lot of stop-motion animation, and for the past couple weeks or so he's been working on this clay-mation of a penguin character he created. He posted the video he made in its semi-completed state on YouTube, and I thought that even though it isn't done yet it still looks amazing and is really cool.
I'm posting the link to his video on his YouTube account, so give it a watch if you want! And if you're interested in this kind of motion graphics and animation, subscribe to his channel, he has a lot of really cool animation videos that are related to things we learn in class.
Have a great weekend, and see you all Tuesday!

Stop Motion Animation

Stop motion animation is a way to make an object appear it is moving on its own. In order to do this you must take an object and move it in small increments between different photographed frames. This will give the illusion that the object is moving by itself when you play the frames in a continuous sequence. People often use clay figures to do this because it is easy to reposition them.

Stop motion animation has been in many movies. The first time the stop motion technique was used was by Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton for The Humpty Dumpty Circus in 1897. This movie had toys at the circus come to life. I couldn't find a video of the Humpty Dumpty circus but here is another video made by the same people.



Here is another example of stop motion animation that is used in a music video. This is a more recent piece.