Animated Short Film : Le Building

Le Building. A masterpiece of this kind of animation is made by 5 French students. You must see it!



Little events just happened one after another leading to a big disaster.The film makes you can’t take your eyes off screen and laugh aloud in only 1 minute.

One thing impresses me so much is the tempo. They use cameras very proficient to present a series of scenes fluently. Another feature of this film is that it has no story, even no specific meaning or something to tell. However, through good camera arrangements and splendid animation performances, it’s still so fascinating. It's why this film is classic.

I think maybe some people in animation field should think about this concept. They are always asking “What’s the meaning?” and too focus on something they called story. Actually, neither meaning nor story is a necessary element to make a good animation. They are important indeed, but not the only important things we should take care.



The 5 creators of this outstanding film are students from a French animation school called Gobelins – if you are first time to hear this name, try to remember it.

Gobelins is one of the best animation school in the world. Their students won a lot of awards in almost every important festivals and competitions. Some of their animations are even much better than commercial animations which are made by big company. I’ll introduce some great pieces in the future time.

You can visit their site, and see more details about this film and know these creators.

Le Building Official Website
http://www.le-building.com/index.htm

Animated Short Film : Fart in Elevator

Fart in Elevator is an excellent animated short film from two NTUA students Daway and Decill. It’s a story about two funny animals in one elevator.



I recommend you to click the little icon in the lower right corner “vimeo” to see this film in a bigger size version. Actually all animation creators will appreciate you to do this because it can help you to see the original quality and all the details they want to present.

In this film, characters and scenes are well-designed with a cute cartoon style. Tiger and lion both look funny without saying a word, and their performances are also very interesting to make people associate with PIXAR’s animation.



This film has won some awards, like SIGGRAPH 2009 Space Time 3rd place, K.T. Creativity Award 3rd place, and also nominated by a lot of animation festivals or competitions like PISAF, BISAF, South Taiwan Film Festival and Golden Lion International Student Film Competition.

If you like this film very much or you’re an animation maker too, you should see Making of Fart in Elevator. It will show you how they make this animation film.



Or you can go Fart in Elevator Official Website to see these films and know more about them. Both two creators of this film have their blogs too. They are also worth to visit and just don’t worry about laguage - the blogs are all in Chinese.

Fart in Elevator Official Website http://www.fartinelevator.com/
Daway's blog
http://dawaywang.blogspot.com/
Decill's blog
http://decill.pixnet.net/blog

Draft of "Qualities of a Good Animator"

Although good animators are very different from one to another, there are still three common qualities they usually have.

The first quality is that they are very excellent in observation. They are used to take care of all the tiny things happened around their life and take down it. These collections are quite useful for animators to make animation more lively.

The second quality is passion. Passion is so important to animators because animation actually is a quite hard work to turn some fantastic dreams into real things. If one have no passion for his work, he might be easily give up or just do some terrible clips.

Winston's autobiography

My name is Winston. I am now 24 years old and live in Taipei County. There are four members in my family. It includes my father, my mother, my older brother and I.

I have great interest in animation since I was a child, so I major in multimedia and animation arts during my university time. Now I am studying in National Taiwan University of Arts to get M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts) in Animation Arts. My study primarily focuses on Computer Animation and Character Animation.

Beside studying at school, I have a personal studio of animation films. I take visual design, website design, special effects in film and animation cases. Sometimes I do some graphic designs too. By working this way for years, I have been an experienced and individual animation designer.

As for me, giving vivid power to virtual characters and turning them into real life is the most wonderful thing. The magic between frame and frame always amazes me and makes me want to do more. I wish I could get good achievements in my study and continue to work for animation arts in the future.