{"id":13270,"date":"2020-08-22T13:09:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=13270"},"modified":"2020-08-22T13:15:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:15:17","slug":"glittering-cutouts-get-their-groove-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/22\/glittering-cutouts-get-their-groove-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Glittering cutouts get their groove on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Longtime VFX stud Fernando Livschitz (<a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/22\/creative-rotoscoping-rush-hour\/\">see<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/16\/morning-levity-vienna-is-like\/\">previous<\/a>) has turned to 2D, making spray-painted cutouts derived from a real dancer in order to create this delightful little animation. It&#8217;s only 30s long, but the subsequent making-of minute is just as cool:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Lost in motions&#039;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/438585692?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"604\" height=\"435\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The stop-motion dancers remind me of the brilliant MacPaint animations (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pinot\/status\/1005491222448926720\">of Childish Gambino<\/a>) from Pinot Ichwardardi, who happened to say this about low-fi tech:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;The old computer graphic was so rough &amp; jaggies. But fortunately human brain has a built-in anti-alias tech called imagination.&quot; ~ kids.<\/p>&mdash; Pinot W. Ichwandardi (@pinot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pinot\/status\/1288586921913077760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2020\/07\/fernando-livschtiz-lost-in-motions\/?mc_cid=3b06437e05&amp;mc_eid=b34f0e41ae\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime VFX stud Fernando Livschitz (see previous) has turned to 2D, making spray-painted cutouts derived from a real dancer in order to create this delightful little animation. It&#8217;s only 30s long, but the subsequent making-of minute is just as cool: The stop-motion dancers remind me of the brilliant MacPaint animations (e.g. of Childish Gambino) from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13270"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13312,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions\/13312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}