Posted on 08/17/2016 7:02:12 PM PDT by EveningStar
Can anyone identify the source and name for this fascinating graphic?
Mesmerizing to watch.
The epic tale of a rock (yep – you heard me right!) told over millions of years, An Object at Rest takes it viewers on a journey through time as we witness our stone protagonist battle against the forces of nature…and mankind. Layering digital animation on-top of hand-painted watercolor background’s, Seth Boyden’s charming animation expertly blends the painterly quality of its aesthetic, with its classic storyline, creating a short with a real timeless quality.
Although Boyden’s film is as pretty as a picture (it really does have the feel of a watercolor painting to it), for the team here at Short of the Week, it was the narrative that really made An Object at Rest standout from this year’s CalArts films. An ambitious tale, set over a huge time-period, the assured storytelling on show in this 6-minute thesis film just felt like something we couldn’t ignore.
Speaking via email, the director revealed how he first came up with the concept for his film whilst walking down a gravel road with his dad – “Thinking about the boulders that were ground into tiny pieces and scattered on the street, I wondered where those rocks had been before, and where they would go after the road was gone. This sort of began the perception of “rock time” where everything that happened over centuries of our human history would probably just be seconds from the perspective of a rock.
The majority of the scenes that I wanted to capture in the film were inspired from events that have or could have actually happened in the American Midwest. Most of the choices for scenes were determined by experiences from historical locations that I remember visiting from when I was young. All that was left was to weave the rock character into these moments to give it a narrative context.”
Taking 9-months to complete, Boyden graduates from CalArts this month (May 2015) and is planning to enter the feature animation industry as a storyboard artist trainee. If you like what you see, be sure to check out more of his films on Vimeo and keep an eye on his blog for updates.
You know that rock was only 6000 years old, right?
I’m just a stone,
Yes, I’m only a stone,
And those crazy folks won’t leave me alone...
More entertaining than this!
Times about 50,000. Looks like he began his trip through time during the Permian period, about 300 million years ago.
A winter’s day
In a deep and dark December
I am alone
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow
I am a rock
I am an island
I’ve built walls
A fortress deep and mighty
That none may penetrate
I have no need of friendship, friendship causes pain
It’s laughter and it’s loving I disdain
I am a rock
I am an island
Don’t talk of love
But I’ve heard the words before
It’s sleeping in my memory
I won’t disturb the slumber of feelings that have died
If I never loved I never would have cried
I am a rock
I am an island
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me
I am a rock
I am an island
Songwriter
PAUL SIMON
I’ve never seen a .gif animation last longer than a few seconds. How did they get this one to go 6 minutes?
Everybody wanna get...stone
Could be an outtake from “Modern Times”.
bfl
https://i.imgur.com/iNq5zmg.gif ... 75.6 MB (79,218,260 bytes)
The size doesn't bother me but I can imagine a situation where someone is pushing up against a monthly bandwidth cap on some draconian cell/dsl/dialup plan and they might get ticked off.
I didn't even know that IMGUR allowed files that big and I've been using it for years! Good to know though. Pretty cool and creative graphic.
Don’t know it, but wonderful. Thanks for sharing!
That was cute
Depending on your web browser and its settings, every time you reload the page to read new comments that image may get downloaded again and again.
In theory a "smart" browser will check the cache first and see if it has changed, but that in itself may require the image to be downloaded in full first because I don't think it has a way to say compare CRC/MD5 remotely. So I think that is essentially just theory as currently implemented.
Now a dumb browser like older versions of MSIE will not only download it once initially, but it will likely be downloaded under new names in its cache multiple times. Microsoft loves to waste resources.
774K
Cal Arts is near me. Very brilliant and sometimes wacky students go there. The artist of this stone video has 774,000 views. Amazing.
If ever in town, visit Cal Arts in Santa Clarita (open house every Thur. night) and visit the Department of Animation. The student work on the walls is tops and amazing. The students graduate and work immediately for Pixar in Berkeley.
Yes, the file is huge and next time just leave a link. Thanks for promoting a Cal Arts student.
You know that rock was only 6000 years old, right?
Wow ..... thanks for the link !!
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