Its begun....

So today we have officially started the D&AD briefs.  Finally settling upon the the animation brief has enabled me to just get down to it.  This will also be my first collaboration, fingers crossed it goes well. 

Some of my favorite animators and animations are below. 

Slinky pictures is an animation company I am highly inspired by the use of film and animation colliding together is really where i want to take my animations, DADS dead clearly illustrates this. The animation above is collaboration with David Shrigley who also worked with Blur for Shylona. This once again mixes both Slinkys and Shrigleys dark and amusing take on life.




U.P.A animation is my absolute inspiration for wanting to do animation, everything about their work is perfection, the use of type the simplistic settings, great character development and a childish sentament, at the same time the stuido still made other dark and more adult cartoons such as the Tale Tell heart.




Spike Jonze work is highly inspirational, I think the main reason is he like gondry makes the impossible plausible not only with his worlds but with the techniques he uses. Much like Michael Gondry.


And of course Saul bass, who cares if everyone copied him he is the master, i prefer his more tactile approach to tittle sequences which can be seen in 'Bunny Lake Is Missing'



Which leads onto the contemporary master Kyle Cooper his work usually out does the work of the films he works for.



Another one of my more bizarre inspirations is cinema intermission commercials.