Lexiconimations

I'm Lexicon. These are my amateur animations. Just a nice way to keep a collection, don't you think?

[obiroguewan]

[zhouxuns]

Um, I thought these were real people.

[beware-the-jack-o-lantern-deact]

That just shows how good the animation is.

[leiko-tomago]

"Animation is a technique, not a genre." - Gore Verbinski

[jenarwen]

THANK YOU!

[danieltflynn]

This is the first animation I’ve done in a year.

[wintertracer]

One of the more challenging sequences involving the CG arm was in the lab, when after his first battle with Steve Rogers, The Winter Soldier retires for a series of painful repairs. During the scene, the actor sits in an operating chair, shirtless, while his battle damage is repaired. To fully integrate the CG into the live performance, part of the upper torso had to be re-constructed to make the relationship between the metal arm and the live flesh realistic. 

“It was interesting crafting a seamless coupling between the CG and the practical elements of the Winter Soldier plate. We had to create a scarred portion of Winter Soldier’s chest that not only had to be perfectly photoreal, but also needed to remain interesting and not overly gruesome, while making sense mechanically,” said Pavel Pranevsky, Luma’s Santa Monica-based CG supervisor on the project. “The CG extension then had to have a smooth connection to the actor’s body as his chest heaved and shook during the performance. It was a challenging piece of development to ensure the look and movement felt as natural as possible while preserving the dynamics of the actors movements.”

The close-up nature of many of these shots exposed much of the inner workings of The Winter Soldier’s bionics. The inspiration for the interior mechanics of the arm ranged from aircraft engines to surgical equipment, with Luma referring to clean and elegant mechanical designs, to ground the look the arm and make it believable. (x)

[masterkfox]

guess which frame I gave up on

[lexiconimations]

Happy birthday, Ryan!

[thedisneyprincesspage]

The scene in which Elsa walks out onto the balcony of her newly constructed ice palace is 218 frames long, and includes the film’s longest frame to render. The single frame took more than 132 hours to render (that’s more than five days).

[thedavidoreilly]

This is a simple motion-diagram thing I made when talking about animation to non-animators.

[rubberninja]

Great visualization for people learning animation.  All these different sequences are the same length, just approached differently.

[ryanccole]

Take.

Note.

[artbooksnat]

Production art for Puella Magi Madoka Magica characters Kyouko and Sayaka in the Key Animation Note Vol 4.

[daysecraze]

Spirited Away - a morning storm at the bath house.

I’ve been a bit preoccupied with this movie lately in case you didn’t notice!

[romy7]

Happy Lunar New Year!

Gorgeous animation!

Reminds me of Okami (which makes sense), and made for Louis Vuitton (which I could take it or leave it tbh), anyway…Happy Lunar New Year!

[inkfromtheoctopus-deactivated20]

The Adventures of Prince Achmen. 1926. German. The oldest surviving animated film in history.

[inja-y-ddraig]

Nonono, you don’t understand how AWESOME this movie is

because it’s not done by a big production firm, or someone with a name as big as Walt Disney, no

the writer and “mind” behind this film was a WOMAN

yes, my dear tumblr peeps, the very first trick animator in the world was a young German woman who had an idea, and enough friends and time to make a feature-length animated film. And it took her three years

because the way this movie (and some shorter works she actually did before Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed) are done is really, really complex. You see those leaves, and the hair of the figures? Yes.

That’s hand-cut paper.

Lotte Reiniger - that’s her name, my friends - always loved the art beind the Chinese shadow puppetry, and after she heard a lecture by Paul Wegener (famous vor the early movies Der Golem and Der Student von Prag) about the possibilites of animated movies, she wanted to combine these two things.

And guys, how she combined it…

Most of the puppets and scenerey she made all by herself. Her friends set up a special table that was lighted from underneath, and in the later movies she would even change the colours of the background mid-scene to change the atmosphere. Above it was a camera, shooting photos of the scenes that she moved milimetre for milimetre for those 16 pictures per second she needed for her movie.

Which makes Die Abenteuer von Prinz Achmed not only the first animated feature-length movie, but also the first stop-motion movie.

[lexiconimations]

Wing Test at 24 fps reduced to 20 fps

[fuckedwithoutyou]

[cunt-punch39-deactivated2013050]

Til death do us part

This might be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

[8bitflowers-archive]

Okay, guys, I know I said I was going to bed but can I just point out one little thing here?

Do you notice how it’s blurry at the beginning and suddenly sharpens at the end?

When it’s blurry, it’s because when you’re in love, you supposedly don’t see anything other than the person you love.

And when it sharpens, it’s because the world has come back into focus now that their loved one is gone.

SYMBOLISM.

[stcndupeight]

Yes. 

[lexiconimations]

My first rotoscope animation project - 1,640 frames animated at 24 frames per second. I choreographed, taught, filmed, and animated the dance to my own mixed music. Unfortunately, I couldn't enter the Scholastic Art Contest with the music I mixed due to licensing issues. This music it is set to is not the music it was choreographed to.

This took under two months.

[egosolus]

[suss-urrus]

NO NO NO YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THIS IS A REALLY FAMOUS ANIMATION FILM TECHNIQUE DONE BY ONE INSANE STUDIO YEARS AND YEARS AGO IN GERMANY, ONLY A FEW FILMS, BECAUSE OF HOW HARD THEY WERE TO MAKE.

EACH AND EVERY FRAME OF THESE MOVIES ARE OIL PAINTINGS ON GLASS.

[sushinfood]

holy

[lexiconimations]

First with any color