“Dachshund” is another one of the animations I did for the Real Ideas Studio documentary collaboration “Other Than” that premiered at Cannes.  The first story is about a little crippled dog that a couple got from the shelter.  It’s worth a peek.

Animation Hotline is a series of animations where I use messages left on my voice-mail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because this project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so CALL!

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This is another one of the animations I did for the Real Ideas Studio documentary collaboration “Other Than” that premiered at Cannes.  It’s free to watch online if you want.  My friend Doug did this story.  I’m also needing some new animation hotline stories, so if anyone has anything they want to tell me, chances are I’ll post it really fast because I’ve been making some new animations lately.  The number is 212-683-2490.  

Animation Hotline is a series of animations where I use messages left on my voice-mail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because this project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so CALL!

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Speeding from Dustin Grella on Vimeo.

I just got this message a few hours ago. It’s been really easy to pull messages straight from my desktop since I’ve installed this new messaging system.

Animation Hotline is a series of online animations that use messages left on my voice-mail for content.

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This was for  the Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart and it was a message left in German, so unless you can understand German, it’s difficult to understand.  I’m guessing that even if you do understand German it’s still difficult to understand.  Someone told me that he is talking about fear and about being afraid so I tried to make imagery that went with it as best as possible. 

This isn’t a new one, but it’s an animation for Valentine’s Day.  Happy Valentine’s Day!

Animation Hotline is a series of animations where I use messages left on my voice-mail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because this project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so CALL!

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I’ve been telling people for a few years that I’m moving to Detroit, but then someone asked me if I’d ever been to Detroit.  Of course I’d never been to Detroit, I just had it in my head as the artists’ utopia.  So someone, I think Serena, told me that I should go to Detroit and check it out, then make a decision.  So I’ve been saying for months and months, maybe a year, that I’m going to go to Detroit, but I never go, so finally, not this weekend, but next weekend, I’m going to go.

Whew. So long since a fresh new Animation Hotline video. It felt so good to do whatever I wanted to do and not have to try to make sure it looked good or looked right and could experiment and make mistakes and just have fun. 

I have a chance to go to Cannes this year with the Animation Hotline, so I’ve got two things. First, I need people to leave messages about ‘The Other’. See the website for a more detailed description of what I’m looking for. But if I choose your message it will be played and premiered at Cannes in May 2012. The second thing is that I’m looking for help to fund me attending a networking workshop at the festival (Cannes) so if you know anyone who wants to help with that, again, information on the website. 

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I’ve been watching a bunch of Queen videos on youtube lately and I told my friend about it. Today when he came over he said, “Did you just draw Freddie Mercury?” Um, wow, yeah, I guess I did.

Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!

animationhotline.org

To leave a message call…
inside US: +1 212-683-2490
international (skype): animationhotline

Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!

animationhotline.org

To leave a message call…
inside US: +1 212-683-2490
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I used some new techniques with this one. The last scene has three layers, the image, a mask of the person walking and a still image of another painting. I haven’t really used a lot of post-production in the past, but it was nice to try different things and layer the images.

Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!

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To leave a message call…
inside US: +1 212-683-2490
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A little light on the color, but sometimes I feel like I rely too heavily on color and sometimes I need to just make something with a simple line and little or no color.

Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!

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Electric Literature had me do one of the Single Sentence Animations for them. They give you a sentence from one of their stories and then let you do what you want with it. The sound is a high school show choir singing a rendition of Surfing USA, it’ll make more sense if you read the story.

Classic Pat and Vannah, on Vannah’s first day at the office.  Does Pat say something greasy? 

Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!

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I know this isn’t so much using the chalkboard, but sometimes it’s fun to switch it up a little bit and try something different.

I was thinking I should edit this down but after listening to the message a few times I really couldn’t cut out any of the message.  She is so sincere and so excited and thought that to edit anything would be taking away from the beauty of the message.

I believe the ethnologist and engineer Raine Borg said it best with his statement, “A key is a symbol of all forces that open and close, bind and release. It stands for liberation and incarceration.”

I didn’t stick to the narrative on this one and instead just drew images of a traditional holiday meal. I forgot the pumpkin pie though.