I found this interactive world map site about flights it is very Well designed graphic. It is an interactive world map that tracks all the planes and flights routes in real time around the world.  It also includes several video and photos about the history the first commercial flight when it started.  It also has video about history of flight growth over the years. In one of the videos, It uses simple animation and graphics to conway information about usage of oil on transportation on flights.

The site is designed by kiln.net award winning visualization and digital journalism studio in London.

They use into an active graphics, maps, multimedia to tell a story and give information about history of flight.

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2014/aviation-100-years        The Guardian.com

I found another animation site called the dolly museum that was interesting. It combines paintings of dolly in 3-D environment. This is an interactive video named. Dreams of dolly 360 degrees. It is a 3-D animation.  It's makes you enter the world of three surrealism and you can navigate through it by the use of arrows to see his world from different angles, and perspective.

This interactive video was produced by Gooby Silverstein partners, in San Francisco, with cochairman Jeff and Goodbye, creative director, Adam Ravines, Roger Brown, Sam Luchini, and Mike Landry, art director Sam Luchini.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1eLeIocAcU.       Dreams of Dali: 360 video

I found this fascinating animation called loving Vincent trailer. It is the worlds first feature length painting animation film. It was published on February 20, 2016 as a trailer by Breakthrough Films. 

This is a very unique animation that they have used series of paintings of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings for animation. In this animation they separated the painting and animation process from each other. The movement was provided by live action by actors, combine with visual effects, CGI animation, hand specialist oil painters, creating the paintings.  They used 80 great painters to paint in Vincent's style, and learn enough about animation to create movement and feel about process of painting.  For the frames they had to change the sizes of the painting to be extended to size of the frame of the animation. They used real people under the paintings to see the movement on emotions of characters. They used character similar to the paintings to bring characters to life. They created 66,960 frames of oil paintings.

The founder and creative director of breakthrough films is Hugh Welchman Veltman received into thousand eight many Academy Awards in the category of short animated films for the production of Peter and the Wolf. They have received a total of 35 awards and nominations at major international film Festivals.The Director Dorota Kobiela is trained as a painter.

Director Dorota Kobiela trained as a painter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47h6pQ6StCk      Loving Vincent-trailer, Trailer 2016(web)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOtwJL4iV8s     Loving Vincent. Behind the scene

The Infinite Drum Machine

    For my exploration, I decided to dive a little bit deeper into music/sounds that are intertwined with animation. I came across this amazing website that just so happens to kill a lot of time.

Created by Kyle McDonald, Manny Tan, Yotam Mann, and friends at Google Creative Lab, The Infinite Drum Machine is a web-page that has samples/pulls sample sounds from the internet of everyday sounds. With this machine you can put together different samples from anything you could imagine and create a beat with them.

 I just thought it was extremely interesting and almost impossible to imagine all of the work that was put in to a web-page like this. It's also super fun to play with! Definitely a fun experiment.


  https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/drum-machine/view/

Video Animation Exploartion

I came across a website that showcases individual filmmaker's short films with some animation involved. This is a good site to get some inspiration on how to apply animation to video if you have a spark of interest. A majority of the films don't include animation but if you do enough research on the website you will come across some that do. I challenge you guys to create your own animated video.

Here is a link to the website: http://standardfilms.tv/

Studio/Artist Exploration - Nick DiLiberto / GORGON PICTURES INC.

I came across and article about a animated film maker who took it upon himself to begin his own, 1-man film studio and personally drew and fully animated an entire 80-min film completely by himself in 4 years.

Nick DiLiberto is a Canadian animator who has worked with House of Cool Studios and BioWare.

DiLiberto estimates the film includes roughly 1,000 scenes, which required a pace of one scene a day to meet his self-imposed four-year deadline. That meant 15-hour to 18-hour days.

For more in depth details of his story go HERE

GORGON PICTURES INC

Watch trailers:
TRAILER 1
TRAILER 2

Coguz: Random Scenes of the Subconscious

This interactive piece is a portfolio of sorts; a unique journey through the life of a man named Cankat Oguz. It was created using the CreateJS framework, which is the same framework used by the newest version of Adobe's Animate CC. CreateJS is a JavaScript framework compatible with HTML5 and CSS3. Combined, this trio allows for cross-platform viewing beyond the Flash player. Essentially, publishing files using JavaScript commands allows the animator to publish their work as a website, rather than as a Flash file which is dependent on the end-user having Flash Player installed on their system.

Karl has a great tutorial on integrating HTML5 Canvas and CreateJS into your interactive animations to make them cross-platform compatible. Check it out HERE.

The only apparent downfall to using HTML5 and JavaScript are the large file sizes of the graphics that can cause the website to load and run slowly.  

Memories of Phantasm by Manpuku Jinja

I wanted to share an interesting series of animated episodes by a small group of animators known as Manpuku Jinja. Not much is known about them, since Japanese fan-work circles tend to be fairly reclusive, but it seems that their team consists of around five members. The amazing thing about them is that they have produced the single most high quality animated series based of the absurdly popular indie videogame franchise "Touhou". The Touhou series has so many different fan-works and animations that they could probably blot out the sky, but never has something as extensive as Manpuku Jinja's "Memories of Phantasm" been produced. They paved the way for high quality Touhou themed animations, since many other groups are now trying there hands at it. What stands out is the professional level of animation quality that is typically seen in official anime that would normally air on television. In fact, it's no stretch to say that it's better than many of them. Each episode of Memories of Phantasm takes about half a year to create, which further shows the skill of the small team involved. They also show an immense amount of knowledge of the Touhou universe, and have perfectly portrayed the fantasy world of Gensokyo in which it takes place. Below is the very first introduction animation made to showcase the series.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKIAqd2eN9o