ANIMEST - The International Animation Film Festival
It’s a real adventure to do an animation film. Usually, for a feature it can take up to 3- 4 years, would you believe? There is a lot of work , patience and ambition involved when working to produce an animation film. The art of producing animations is definitely a specific, distinct cinematographic universe. There are not too many schools/universities to prepare directors in this specific field, just few in the entire world. For many people, animation procedures remain still a mystery. As far as I understood, there are three types of doing animation: 1. Using Drawings (the best are the Japanese animations as The wind rises or Blood -C: The last dark these movies have a perfection in drawing, imitating so well the real nature of the things, amazing work!) 2. Using poppets (the best I could ever see it's Strings (directed by Anders Rønnow Klarlund ) 3. Using 3-D technologies 4. There are some more ways to do animation, ...