For the meat lovers...

Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934) is a Czech surrealist artist. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Quay, Shane Acker, Sir Tijn Po, and many others.

Meat Love is a short film directed and animated by Jan Švankmajer, released in 1989. It appears as a commercial in Švankmajer's feature-length film Otesánek. It has also been shown on MTV.

It depicts two slices of steak, personified as two individual beings with a consciousness, that become aware of each other and form a romantic relationship, showing the steaks dancing with one another. This soon leads to passionate love, exemplified by the steaks rolling around, passionately, on a plate of flour. Their passion is killed, however, when the steaks are placed in a frying pan.

Pyrats: The Short Animation

Pyrats is a short animation done by a teamwork consisting of 5 students in the the college of animation "Gobelins l'école de l'image" in Paris, France.

this excellent-made animation was done for as an opening for an international animation festival, it had more than three software programs included and more than just co-operation with the group within, for they have included a sound designer foreign from their team. Programs used for the animation are the following

• Alias MAYA 6.5
• Photoshop CS
• After effects 6.5
• Crater Software CTP
• Flash

Their animation is available in a separate website dedicated for this animation alone however in it they have also included several character designs, background designs and model sheets that were necessary in order to make this animation to be performed. Has it not been published that it was student-made, one wouldn't really notice.

Website: http://www.pyrats.net/

Short film: Khoda. "What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting?"

What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting?

This idea inspired Reza Dolatabadi to make Khoda. Over 6000 paintings were painstakingly produced during two years to create a five minutes film that would meet high personal standards. Khoda is a psychological thriller; a student project which was seen as a ‘mission impossible’ by many people but eventually proved possible!

Credits:

Director and art director: Reza Dolatabadi

Written by Reza Dolatabadi & Mark Szalos Farkas

Animation by Adam Thomson

Music by Hamed Mafakheri

• Winner of the Best Animation Canary Wharf Film Festival (London) Aug, 2008
• Winner of the Best Student Animation Flip Festival (Birmingham) 2008
• Winner of the Best Student Animation, Royal Television Society Award, Scotland (rts) 2009
• Official selection for the "Best Short Film Program” at Waterford Film Festival (Ireland) November 2008

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Links

Reza Dolatabadi - RezaArt.com

Adam Thomson - adamthomsonanimation.com

Memoirs of a Scanner by Damon Stea

Memoirs of a Scanner (Martinibomb Version) from Damon Stea on Vimeo.