“I occasionally showed students how you could just tear up stuff and throw it in, on different layers, adjust the lights, and in seconds you were transported to a possible new film.”
Project Type: Artist Profiles
Michaela Müller
“I tried to learn the fi;m by heart, to watch it and feel it, that’s how I was able to improvise under the camera when I started to paint.”
Nicolai Troshinsky
“For me, when I am doing creative work, it’s important I don’t know everything.”
Patrick Jenkins
“Don’t disguise that the imagery is made up of paint and brush strokes. That’s part of the charm of paint on glass animation!”
Robbe Vervaeke
“Never forget that we’re making films, not shots, so you need to be able to kill the shots in order to make a good film.”
Sheila Sofian
“Don’t be afraid of embracing accidents because sometimes those are the coolest things that can happen.”
Shira Avni
“Sometimes the “happy accidents” lead to the most beautiful work.”
Wendy Tilby
“Paint on glass is very forgiving.”
Witold Giersz
Where he calls home: Konstancin, Poland Fluid frame technique: Oil paint on glass,…
Zin Li
“I think animation or filmmaking is a way to express this emotion, and also let people evolve and communicate with each other.”
Martine Chartrand
“Petrov inspired me to be like Sherlock Holmes on my own work – to find the problems and question them so I do not put not too much energy on a scene that I don’t need.”
Lynn Tomlinson
“Remember each frame is only being glimpsed for a tiny fraction of a second, so embrace the smear and the smudge!”
Lynn Smith
“Testing is also a time to make mistakes. This is because in the mistakes, you may discover something you did not know you were looking for.”
Lee Whitmore
Hand-drawn histories in paint and pastel
Joan Gratz
” I’m not that critical of myself… I think that saves a lot of time.”
Izabela Plucinska
Hand crafted high relief clay.
Ishu Patel
“I would break all the cinematic rules… as long as you know how to draw properly, you can decide what kind of drawings you create.”
David Ehrlich
Clay on wood panel
Alexander Petrov
Oil paint on glass
Florence Miailhe
Combining media into sensual movement.
Marieka Walsh
“I always start with a lot of sand… and I’m teasing those images out of the darkness.”
Anna Humphries
“Don’t worry about the past mistakes, just keep on going until you’ve made something useful.”
Caroline Leaf
“I like limitations. They give you energy to help you make choices.”
Maryam Kashkoolina
“I tried to show this hard subject through an indirect story without any sentimentalism…”
César Díaz Meléndez
“Keep your mind out of the way and you can improvise when you are moving the sand.”
Ferenc Cakó
“…improvisation gives freshness to the whole.”
Aleksandra Korejwo
“I try to make sketches every place I go. It is my principle.”
Philippe Vaucher
“I love the immediacy of a medium that enables me have a finished product at the end of a day of shooting.”
Nag and Gisèle Ansorge
Animating with black sand, a perfect picture of collaboration.
Oskar Fischinger
b.1900, d.1967