I found this video on Vimeo just over two years ago. It's just as good today as it was when I first saw it. I love the way he captured the story of the original Star Wars trilogy in such a simplistic way. The music was more than fitting as well. Ever since I saw it for the first time I have always wanted to make an animated sequence with colored paper and create surreal landscapes and tell a story from another time and place.
It really inspires me to see work like this. If you have ever seen work like this before, please share the links to your favorites as well! If you have made something like this yourself I would love to see it!
Hey yeah! I remember that video. I liked it alot too.
This is an animation I found a few years ago, done in the style of cut out animation, and which might actually have real cut outs in it, but I believe most, if not all of it is done in After Effects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQvKnK08RXg&feature=BFa&list=PL635D6992BFB28EA1&index=3
This is my first attempt at animation in AE. Forgive the banality of it, as I’m still a student, studying at New England Institute of Technology, in Video & Audio Production. I’m a bit of a different student than most who are taking the courses there, as I’m past my mid-life point (in fact I’ll be 50 in March!), but story-telling, especially in animation has always been a favourite of mine, and one in which I hope to excel, and to make others as happy as the little Star Wars animation made you. The thing that makes this animation unique is that all sound fx are done by me, making sounds with my mouth. It’s something I plan to do on a number of projects, having all Foley work done by my own breath. The sound mix isn’t really done properly, as I hadn’t taken my audio courses yet (and I still haven’t quite learned it as well as I should). But anyway, it’s from my blog, in which I’ve been posting my progress in school via projects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BQ2d4QKZnwo
Cheers!
~Shawn
Thanks for sharing your thoughts shawn! The first video link was some pretty intense animation work as well as having a very dark and cynical theme to it. Lots of talent to make a piece like that with all of the complex moving parts. I watched your video as well! Too funny. Was not expecting the castle to rocket into the air. lol.