Animate with every breath

  Follow the impulse

Inspiration comes in the making. Start where you are, with what you have, allows things to come to existence and the creativity to flow. 

Antoine Cenebrouke, an architect, once decided to follow director Michel Gondry's advice and start doing animation. Here a stopmotion tutorial from Gondry (in French) :

Antoine Cenebrouke then built his own animation stand et started making very accessible, diy, tinkered forms that were determined by his pratical constrains.

As he made more films, he became better and more ambitious, still between the four walls of his appartment. The "amateur", tinkered  look became a style.

More info in this interview (in French) https://chroniques-architecture.com/animer-la-ville-et-son-architecture-statique/

Antoine Cenebrouke is not a professional film maker. But actual directors do make "kitchen sink films", small tinkered forms from what they can animate in their direct environnement.

Jonathan Hodgson made a very short film from the rug he was looking at as he was looking for an idea for a no budget project.  Rug https://vimeo.com/142022401
 

Marie Paccou makes flip books from repurposed books, and phenakistiscopes from cardboard plates or paper umbrellas.  http://www.mariepaccou.com/index.php?mode=qui

Street artist sam3 animate the street in OUROBOROS. (And more in his other films... https://vimeo.com/sam3 )


Nikki Schuster gather found objects from cities she visites and make recycled animated creatures out of it https://vimeo.com/25570938

 

A crazy idea

The secret is to act on ideas, no matter how crazy or weird it sounds.

 Maya Yonesho ask people to draw about their town or area. The resulting flip boks are then photographed in situe, for a poetic photographic walk . https://vimeo.com/user3071618

Serene Teh makes live flipped films : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_0vtMSIiRw
Marty Cooper animates cartoons in everyday life :  Au(De)mented Animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V-kc5Hc1iE

Rymdreglage makes crazy diy music videos :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sNxRji1STg&list=PLCX1nCjWXSbrxnpYBw3phkKUr389Um5A3&index=3

Start where you are

Johanes Nyholms directed a music video for Little Dragon made from easy to find, everyday life materials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yedD4JsZyT0
Cristina Busto Alvarez animated a film on her fridge https://vimeo.com/12151750
Emmanuel Bellegarde uses sticky tape on windows. Une Ville https://vimeo.com/98335858
Lizzy Hobbes animates everything https://vimeo.com/lizzyhobbs
 

Animation alchemy

Animation gives new properties to any material. Everything can become eatable, liquide, alive, alien...

Pes and Alexandre Dubosc  show impossible food recipes from absurd ingredients.

The group Château Vacant used clothes and everyday objects to animate their life size short film. https://vimeo.com/user3432785

Develop the idea

Adjustment, Ian McKinnon's short film, mixes live action and animation. It tells the story of a break up from the point of view of an animator who tries to gather the last strands of the relationship with making flip books.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs9G0Y0opVI

Two directors of the group Diluvio managed to make a feature film made only by the both of them, in different art residencies accross the world, during five years. The result is a strange, mutant film whose characters are in a constant state of transformation. Casa Lob trailer :  http://diluvio.cl/projects/la-casa-lobo/