I've just finished our new ultra short animation film "Celestial Gravity" about family values, where technically I wanted to play with simple graphic - using the simplest means for story-telling. Actually, a story can be told through even less with more beauty in meaning, but it's been my first experience in minimalism =) Partly, my life as a refugee made me think this way, but I feel thankful to God for these ideas...
Animation : Playing with simplicity in animation by Alexander Kalinkin
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Isn't it nice.
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Nice work, sir!
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Hey, Alexander. Your short story and animation are cool. It's amazing to give our projects life by any medium. Onward and upward.
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Wow, that was a very compact story - and the minimalism totally played into it! Really well done!
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Thank you so much for encouraging words about this work - it means a lot for me - I love stage32 for being such a supportive place and it's been not the first time when I found inspirational source of creative power here - thank you for being yourself! Speaking of minimalism and inspiration - as many animators, I'm a big fan of Hayao Miyazaki and in this field I'd like to mention his early work - "My Neighbors the Yamadas", 1999 - so simple and engaging way of story-telling. Thank you again - you can't imagine - I'm so happy you like it...
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The most minimalist character animation that comes to mind is The Dot and the Line. Do a search if you haven’t seen it.
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The work of Don Hetzfeldt is also deceptively simple. Stick figure characters, but their performances are very human.
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Thank you, Mike, for the references - sounds interesting, really - I'll study them - thank you!
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Pixar did and interesting simplistic take on the celestial beings in Soul