Film School Rejects‘ (as your attorney, I advise you to put that on your list of film blogs) Neil Miller wrote a post about Sundance idents from this year’s festival. All the videos are stop motion animation and there is a lot of hand cut, or indeed torn, papery feel to them.
This is a trend I’ve seen before, some of my work colleagues favor it as well. The CGI (computer generated images) craze is slowing down… at least in some places. There’s avatar, two billion dollars, etc on one side, but there’s also Fantastic Mr. Fox on the other. The theme of 2010 Sundance was Rebelion – you can figure it out from here.
I know a lot of animators who are going back to the roots, if you like, getting their hands dirty with clay and scissors. It’s something to look out for.
Here’s my favorite and you can check out the other videos on the original post. You might want to watch it in full-screen mode, as it’s been designed for a movie theatre screen and lettering is rather small, while text in this one is quite important. And yeah, dare to tell your own story.
Sundance Pitch sml from Neil Miller on Vimeo.