Hugo Cabret: A History Lesson Worth Watching

by admin on November 24, 2011

Anyone who loves movies – watching them, making them, talking about them, or thinking about them should see Hugo Cabret.

The spirit of Animation Chefs has it’s origin in the history element of this wonderful story. Right now, we are figuring out all the cool things we can do with apps, cameras, and other cool software, but at the heart of it we are figuring out how to tell stories.

Georges Méliès is the center of the movie (we saw the premiere tonight) and if you know anything about George Melies or if you google anything about him you will find someone like us; someone who notices the newest technology of his day and figures how to take it to the next level by making stories.

We’re not going to give away the story, but check out the movie. Or better yet – read the book and then see the movie. The book is huge and thicker than a cheesecake, but it is loaded with beautful full page illustrations and it will read very quickly.

Oh and by the way, we’ve just about finished an hour of new animation chef material we’ll be putting up soon.

Meantime

Bon Animate

 

The Animation Chefs

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Mouthing Effects for Movies

by admin on July 25, 2011

We do most of our sound effects with our mouths. The range of sounds you can produce on the fly, without having to dig through sound effects libraries, is quite enormous. We saw this video a few years ago, but thought you’d be impressed by the mind-blowing sound library this girl produces just using her own gob.  Enjoy. – P.S. We are working to bring you our latest episodes by Sept. We have some very different things in store. Stay Tuned!YouTube Preview Image

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While We Are Away – Oragami Behind the Scenes

We are in the middle of testing in school at the moment, but we wanted to show you a behind the scenes look at stop-motion animated origami. We are trying this ourselves for a later show, but we have been overwhelmed by the mastery of this team of commercial animators from Japan. Check it out [...]

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Improvised Claymation by K-3 Graders

We have been busy this month so pardon our absence. We had the chance to have free animation demonstrations at a local kids center this month. Claymation Creation. Groups of 2-3 kids had 20 minutes to create a character and animate it in some fashion. It was a blast. Here are three of our favorites [...]

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Shark vs Rabbit: Opera as a Weapon!

Who knew singing Italian Opera gibberish would tame the savage beast? Tweet This Post

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Animation As Homework! Check this assignment out.

Your new animation skills can be used in school if your teacher is into technology. Number two chef has just finished an imaginary movie trailer about The Bonus Army, a depression era history assignment for middle school. Re-imagining a historical event as a movie trailer is very cool. Our mom and dad knew nothing about [...]

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Youtube’s Creator Institute: Duh!

It’s about time Youtube enabled it’s audience with a channel dedicated to creating what makes Youtube Youtube: Creating Content. March 31st Youtube launches “Youtube Institute”, an effort to teach the rest of us how to up the quality of our uploads. While we “got” the need for “content” instruction years ago, (animation chefs’ first post [...]

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Red Carpet Kids! Animators Have a Festival of Their Own!

Walking the Red Carpet gives these young animators a boost of confidence and esteem.

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Animate Your Kid’s Book Review: Winter’s Tail

Last Summer we had the chance to visit Winter, the dolphin with a prosthetic tail, in Clearwater Florida.  We bought the book about Winter too. After our trip, we did an animation about our visit as a family. This is not an Animation Chef’s post today, but we thought you’d like to see what we [...]

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Rwanda Animation #2: Kwita Izina

Kwita Izina means “Naming Ceremony”.  We were part of Kwita Izina (KEE-tah ezEENa) where thousands of people come together as people come from all over the world to “name” the new baby mountain gorillas born in the previous year in Rwanda. The rangers in the mountains keep track of all the gorillas born each year [...]

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