Parker+Heidorf+Animation+Research

Parker Heidorf media type="youtube" key="oaATMH0m7bw" width="560" height="315" Pixar Animation featuring old man playing chess with himself at the park. It is completely computerized, but it is a fun little dual sided animation. The creators did very well creating a story with only one character and a short time frame. The animator uses his camera angles very well to make it seem to the viewer that there are two people playing, even when we know there are not.

media type="youtube" key="Ovvk7T8QUIU" width="560" height="315" Stop Motion displaying some of the most recognizable original video games ever. The creator, PESFilms, does a great job using everyday objects to portray a variety of objects from classic video games. Such as using candy corn for bullets in the Asteroid part.

media type="youtube" key="W7LWny6c4wI" width="560" height="315" This is a short film created by the people who made the Despicable Me movies so it is all computer animated, but it is good nonetheless. The scene where the minions are falling down a deep hole is very well animated regarding making the minions look like they are falling and then grabbing onto falling bombs next to them. I was attracted to this one because of the recognition of the minions first of all, and second, because the animation is very clean. There are no noticeable mistakes at all and it is done meticulously.

media type="youtube" key="cOcMPYGaSDA" width="560" height="315" This is a little more unique, this animation uses audio from the game and the commentary from another youtube channel with over a million subscribers and animates what they are talking about in the video game. I liked this one a lot because it was literally just inspired by audio. The animator really put his imagination and creativity into everything in the video. This is also computer animated, but it is of a lesser quality than the ones above obviously due to equipment and time, but I find it cool that someone had enough spare time to create something like this.

media type="youtube" key="St5PLcxZy44" width="560" height="315" This animation is from a sports website called Bleacher Report and the animation cleverly plays off of a popular television series to illustrate the times in basketball. They also have a football series like this, seen below. I'm pretty sure this is computer generated as well, but the audio behind it is very good. media type="youtube" key="LkMFwvNQ_IM" width="560" height="315" I was attracted to animations like the two above because I like sports, and often these have a fun spin to the stories behind the scenes.