A Review of Animated Music Video ‘All Over’ by Cruisr

29/11/2020 The mature-marked animated music video ‘All Over’ has surprised me by its astonishing transition of 50 images from at least 38 classic movies in history. It is animated by two-dimensional computer techniques based on Cruisr’s song ‘All Over’. And it also absorbs and reappears many classic films’ actor images and classic shots to describe …

A Review of Animated MV ‘Thick As Thieves’

28/11/2020 This weekend I have fortunately enjoyed two animated music videos and Kalle Matteson’s song ‘Thick As Thieves’ worked with stop-motion animator Kevin Parry is one of these fantastic MVs. As far as I am concerned, the combination of both animation and music is a creative way to expend the content of lyrics, though it …

A Thought from the Film ‘The Celestine Prophecy(2006)’

22/11/2020 This Sunday, I have watched a film ‘The Celestine Prophecy'(2006) adapted by a 1993 novel of the same name written by James Redfield, which inspired me a new thought that I am seeking for recently. Unlike other high technological or art films, this is actually a spiritual film with a simple script telling a …

A Review of my LIAF Programme

16/11/2020 This year I started my first animation programme(not only for school as my undergraduate courses) about making a sting selected from one of eight International Competition Programmes for London International Animation Festival(LIAF) with classmates and tutors in the ual. After a long time of idea development and decision made by the LIAF programme group, …

About a Mother——A Review of Velikovskaya’s Short Animation Film

04/06/2020 The short animation film About a Monter was actually found by accident at one night when I was looking for some inspirations of my school project. After watching this film, I felt so touched and impressed, and even could not hold my tears at all. At that point, I thought it had touched a …

Home and World—A Review of Boy and the World(2013)

23/05/2020 This weekend I have had a chance to watch a Brazilian animated adventure film Boy and the World(2013) which has a unique hand-drawing style and no clear dialogue in the whole storytelling. Its narrative tells that a boy living in countryside and growing in a natural place experiences his father leaving the family by …

Inside Out Review——a look into the emotion

17/5/2020 There have been lots of fantastic animations looking at the macrocosm surrounding us. But how about going into an inner world inside ourselves? Here, Pixar’s award winning animation film Inside Out (2015) provides a creative access to looking into our human’s inner spiritual world, and focusing on emotions as a crucial part of our …

A Review of My Researching of Anja Kofmel’s Film: Chris the Swiss

03/05/2020 This year, I was in my first time having chances to touch and study animated documentary from an academical angle. Before that, I personally thought about animated documentary as an unambiguous category of animation that I could seldom recognise because I did have seen many documentaries combining digital skills and animated drawings in some …

From Wan Brothers’ Letter to Look at the Eastern Elements in Film-making Art

19/04/2020 There is an essay about discussing an unknown influence of a letter from Wan brothers on Japanese Animation during the World War 2. I was surprised when I found it in the academic book East Art in Japanese Animation because I recognise Wan brothers as the first and significant Chinese animators from the last …

Overall History of Japanese Animation

15/02/2020, an half overview of the book Japanese Animation Since Japanese animation has been succeeding around the world, as well-known as American animation nowadays, I think it is worth studying the precious experience of developing animation from Japan. So I searched a book Japanese Animation and have been reading some articles from this book for …