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Intro to Animation

09.22.10

Our intrepid animators tackled flipbooks, sticks and stones (and acorns and leaves), dragons and sea creatures, transformative vehicles and carrot cars; turning all manner of story and picture into stop motion animations. They experimented with the techniques of pixilation, found object animation, 2-D puppet animation, and claymation.

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Tuesdanimation!

09.22.10

It’s another delicious helping of Tuesdanimation, the film medley created by talented artists of the animation after-school class. As always, Tuesdanimation features a variety of stop-motion animated shorts, strange, wild and wonderful. Congratulations to the animators for their awesome work and their giant patience. (Due to technical difficulty this post arrives a season later than it should.)

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Robots R’ Us

09.17.10

During the last week of art colony, the Robotics class made self moving toothbrushes with old watch and cell-phone parts, gave some wind up chickens a make-over, and made a medley of other unique moving sculptures with old toy parts and mechanisms. Over the course of the week, the Robotisists contemplated how robots effect the world and people around us, and learned how powerful machines can be!

Please watch our display of re-constructed wind-up chickens and the stop-motion animation depicting our class as robots and robot-like beings.

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Who’s Your Monster?

09.17.10

It’s the old question. Who is your monster? BEWARE: Watching this medley of beastly films may raise other questions. Are you afraid of monsters? Have you ever seen a monster? Are you…in fact…a MONSTER?!

Check out this tribute to all things fanged, furry, dark and deadly, created by the brave and creative artists of the August Monster Animation Art Colony on Governors Island.

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Flip

09.17.10

A lone, faceless figure turns on her television. Mercilessly wielding her remote, she takes us on a seemingly unstoppable, fast-paced journey through TV Land.

The Puppet Theater TV class, the first of it’s kind at CMA, gave Art Colonists the opportunity to co-create a piece that combined the mediums of live puppetry and television. Teaching artists guided filmmaker/puppeteers through the process of writing a script, building puppets and sets, performing, recording and adding sound and music. The result of this intense and in depth collaboration is FLIP.

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Diamond of the Pig

09.15.10

It begins like this: A coveted jewel, a heist with a twist, a bird and a primate hatch a plan on a bench in Beastown. Have you ever been to Beastown, with it’s warehouses and dark alleys, it’s hippo gangs and wild boar thugs? You know, Beastown, where the rich pig runs the show and crime runs the streets. Yeah, Beastown, where you can’t tell the difference between the rapid beat of your heart and the crash of that crazy tiger’s snare drum.

Enjoy this collaborative gem, created by the hard-working artists of the Animated Film Art Colony on Governors Island. This film has been unofficially dedicated to Sam Squirrel.

Beyond the Refrigerator Door - Exhibition Opening
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Beyond the Refrigerator Door - Exhibition Opening

09.15.10

Thank you to all the young artists and their families whom braved the stormy weather to attend CMA’s 7th Annual Beyond the Refrigerator Door exhibition this past Sunday. If you missed the show, don’t worry, the show is open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays 11 am - 3 pm until October 3rd. Click here to see more photos from the opening and information on how to visit. Thank you everyone!

Claymation Creation
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Claymation Creation

09.08.10

The animators of the August Claymation Art Colony in Soho displayed a dangerous amount of skill, as is evident in the medley of short films that is Claymation Creation. Catch brief glimpses into bizarre worlds: Swashbuckling kitties on the high seas, a mysterious transaction between a chihuahua and a pigeon, and some classic science fiction, mouse-style! Warning: These are edge-of-your-seat style films, not for the faint of heart.

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Cartoon Animation Combination Nation

09.08.10

We studied how to render motion animation by creating simple flip books, and practiced telling a narrative by drawing our own comic books! Using the traditional cell animation process we animated our comic’s main character doing some simple actions. We also developed a character and did a stop-motion animation video of their heads rotating in a circle!

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