Paperman

Paperman is a 2012 black-and-white film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and directed by John Kahrs.The short blends traditional animation and computer animation. The short won both an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 85th Academy Awards,[3] and the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject at the 40th Annie Awards.
Plot

A young businessman is standing on an elevated train platform in 1940s New York City, holding a folder, when he is hit by a flying piece of paper. The paper is chased by a young woman who lost it to a gust of wind from a passing train. The same thing happens to the man when a subsequent gust of wind from another incoming train dislodges one of the papers from his folder and blows it onto the woman's face. This leaves a red lipstick mark on the paper, much to the woman's amusement when he retrieves it. The man is entranced by the lipstick mark and the woman's beauty, and therefore misses her boarding the departing train. The two exchange looks as she departs.
The man arrives at work, despondent, gazing at the lipstick-marked paper on his desk. He looks out the window and is surprised to find the woman in the building across the street, sitting in an office with an open window. After failing to get her attention by waving his arms, the man begins folding airplanes from a stack of papers on his desk, throwing them out the window one by one in an attempt to get her to notice him. Unfortunately, his efforts are met with varying levels of failure, as well as disparaging looks from his boss. In desperation, having used all of the paper on his desk to no success, he uses the lipstick-marked paper, although this fails as well when a gust of wind tugs it from his hands. The woman then leaves the office, and the man, rebuffing his boss, dashes from his desk. Rushing across a street of busy traffic, he fails to see which way she went, and only finds the final lipstick-marked paper airplane. Angered, he throws it hard and it soars into the sky.
It turns out many of the paper airplanes have collected in a nearby alley, and when the lipstick-marked paper airplane lands among them, they begin to stir and fly from the ground, seeming to come alive, and set off in pursuit of the man. A cloud of paper airplanes forces the man toward a nearby train station and onto a train, much to his confusion. Meanwhile, the lipstick-marked paper airplane sets off in pursuit of the woman, finding her at a flower stand. Recognizing the lipstick-marked paper, the woman chases the airplane to another train station and aboard a different train. The man and woman are finally brought together when both of their trains stop at the same station. They meet on the platform, the man covered in paper airplanes and the woman holding the lipstick-marked paper airplane. As the credits roll, they are seen chatting happily with each other at a restaurant table.

La Maison en Petits Cubes

As his town is flooded by water, an aged widower is forced to add additional levels onto his home in order to stay dry. But when he accidentally drops his favorite smoking pipe intoLa Maison en Petits Cubes (つみきのいえ Tsumiki no Ie?, "The House of Small Cubes") is a 2008 Japanese animated short subject film created by Kunio Katō, with music by Kenji Kondo. It won several prizes, the most important of which being the Grand prize for short films (the Annecy Cristal) at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2008 [1] and the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2009.[2] It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2008.
Plot
the lower submerged levels of his home, his search for the pipe eventually makes him relive scenes from his eventful life.

The Lost Thing

It won the 83rd Oscar for Best Animated Short.This book was adapted into a 15-minute animated short film in 2010, directed by Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann and narrated by Tim Minchin.

Plot

Set in the near future, in dystopian Melbourne, Australia, The Lost Thing is a story about Shaun who enjoys collectingbottle tops for his bottle top collection. One day, while collecting bottle tops near a beach, he discovers a strange creature, that seems to be a combination of an industrial boiler, a crab, and an octopus. This creature is referred to as "The Lost Thing" by the narrator.

Shaun realizes the creature is lost and out of place. He attempts to find its owner but is not able to, due to the indifference of everyone else. As he is looking for the creature's owner, he is met by a creature who gives him a business card with a arrowhead sign on it. After searching much of the city for the sign, which they find all across the city, Shaun is able to find the sign and follows it to a similarly utopian land for lost things, where he returns the creature,and continues on with his life - although he was unable to say whether the creature really belonged there.

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film(Presentation)

The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931-32, to the present.

This category was known as "Short Subjects, Cartoons" from 1932 until 1970, and as "Short Subjects, Animated Films" from 1971 to 1973. The present title began with the 1974 awards. In the listings below, the title shown in boldface was the winner of the award, followed by the other nominees for that year. This category is notable for giving Walt Disney 12 of his 22 Academy Awards, including a posthumous 1968 award, and also 10 of the first 11 awards awarded in the category. Only American films were nominated for the award until 1952.

Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies and Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry was the category's most winner, both winning seven Oscars. Among foreign studios, the National Film Board of Canada has the most wins in this category, with six Oscars. The biggest showing from Britain in this category is Nick Park's Wallace and Gromit with two wins so far.

Awards were presented to the shorts' producers during the first five decades of the award's existence. Current Academy rules call for the award to be presented to "the individual person most directly responsible for the concept and the creative execution of the film. In the event that more than one individual has been directly and importantly involved in creative decisions, a second statuette may be awarded."^[1]The Academy defines short as being "not more than 40 minutes, including all credits."

Creative Future -Making Stop Motion Film on a Tiny Budget

Thanks Linda introduction and her film. When i talk about stop motion that i will think they are clay,but i was worry.It is a part of Stop Motion.

  Stop motion (also known as stop frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Dolls with movable joints or clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Stop motion animation using plasticine is called clay animation or "clay-mation". Not all stop motion requires figures or models; many stop motion films can involve using humans, household appliances and other things for comedic effect. Stop motion using objects is sometimes referred to as object animation.
  With the technology development we should redefined how to development Stop Motion.In this moment computer control all animation production.People always remember Flash and 2d 3d  animation,however they forgot Stop Motion presence.Why will this happen？

  First i want to say Stories and Scripts. A compelling story is the basis for an animated film.Stop Motion animation tedious and complicated process is also difficult to produce   the circumstances are complex monumental masterpiece.This doomed to stop motion animation can not mass production.The animation material which character and environment they are only as arts and crafts store in the warehouse that is difficult to use it again .In addition you are ready to make a series of animation. Linda McCarthy is a good example to explain my question.she spend six months to plan and making animation,final we got a 3-4 minute short film. With respect to time we can get, if you use the 3D technology to spend six months of production.we can get a  2-3 minute Hollywood blockbuster.Stop Motion on the efficiency and visual effects unmatched 3D. As a same reason 3D of the production costs and labor is the highest.Stop Motion animation opponents FLASH and 2d animation. 2D and Flash in efficiency and cost stronger than Stop Motion. At this moment Stop Motion more like a handicrafts. So a good idea is Stop Motion soul,I also find the many directors awarded the Oscar Short Animation Award prefer to use Stop Motion reasons.In my opinion to usher in a new golden age must be resolved, material recycling and efficient motion animation.

Creative Future How not be a Designer

Robert Ball has special thinking in his speech,Certainly he is a interesting man.He would use How to began his speech there are
How not be a Designer!
How not to promote a gallery！
How not to do advertising!
How not to take the piss!
How not to design a screen saver!
There are five question in his work.Also when we get a job ,we will have to face a lot of difficult problems.But Robert explain those questions that will happening in my job.
First question  to show us that you need reposition yourself in company.Many questions become reality ,there are different school life.Such as London and NewYork ,there are different places that have different requirement.So you have to understand their rule. Although those questions look like grotesque ,in fact they have deep meaning for our.as a good designer often need to reverse thinking.

Creative Future 2013 Painting Paul Haywood

Thanks Professor Paul Haywood's key note address.I want to share my thinking in speech.Art is a sacred and esoteric things, it is not just a painting,it is a musical that is not a simple works, it is not necessarily material, there may be a thought, belief, a dedication, a feeling.I remember he said art comes from life, art is a refinement of life.