Inspirations

I've come across some more animation videos that I've seen before but had forgotten about - both stop frame again, and both a little different...


"Her Morning Elegance
Directed by: Oren Lavie, Yuval & Merav Nathan
Featuring: Shir Shomron
Photography: Eyal Landesman
Color: Todd Iorio at Resolution
© 2009 A Quarter Past Wonderful"


This is such a beautiful video, so imaginative and dreamy; it captures the message and feel of the song all in one.
I also love the fact how it's still quite jumpy and you can clearly see the slow frame/second rate. I guess this is exactly so that you can tell how it is made, and adds extra quirkiness to the dreamy style. It's a good example of how stop frame animation doesn't have to be smooth at all.




There's also this animation, it's pretty long, but it's worth the wait. (I think I may have actually blogged this before it's that good...)





It's adorable - it's animated, and it's about a cake - my perfect world!


I think both of these films just prove how important the whole set up is, props/background/materials, as well as lighting and sound.. they're all essential to that fine finished look for the animation.


I've started to read up on the animator as well, Kirsten Lepore. 
She's a freelance animator and illustrator based in central New Jersey, and graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Experimental Animation.
There's some contact details on there, so I'm going to give that a go and then update if there's any feedback from her.