animation – IT IN Place

Grey Valentine

alex — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:39:49 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

When I made the couch video there were two versions: one with Jim Dine’s poem that I eventually released and this one combining some Zipperhead whiteboard animations using this song I wrote with Natalie. Finally got around to uploading the alternate take for Valentine’s day. My ex referred tot he song as : caterwalling, but I still like it and want to recored it properly some day.

Death Cards For Willoughby

alex — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 23:38:51 +0000

double_u UU sends cards for dead Mexican Kings my way and it made me think how much I’m playing cards these days. I’ve been spending a lot of time editing Cage with Dave S. and that feels like a poker game half the time. I’ve also been trying to storyboard Willoughby which feels like a card game too, in the sense of discreet rectangle pictures laid out like solitaire. More hands to come!

Janus Redux

alex — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 20:20:29 +0000

While in a four month fever dream of animating Pain, I also shot some flip vid (much was lost in a tragic language change to French in my interface, but that is a different story) of goings on at Frost, etc. There is some Jillian Salik, some comedy nght, so x box, some editing Cage, and the world premiere of Pain in the garden on an airflow screen.

Premier

alex — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:05:39 +0000

We were editing Cage, when all of a sudden the kids decided to inflate a screen and show movies. It was a nice opportunity to see “Pain” projected with big speakers for the first time!.

Pain

alex — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 08:16:02 +0000

And after much Pain:
An Animation for Donald Johnson’s song Pain. I made over 2,000 individual images iin Photoshop in an attempt to make something like a handmade digital animation. I call the characters cogs. They aren’t cats and they aren’t dogs and they aren’t people. They are part of a narrative machine.

Song written and sung by Donald Johnson
Music arranged, played, and produced by Javier Hernandez-Miyares
Art and Animation by Alex Itin

The Kiss

alex — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:49:12 +0000

Maybe thole thing was an excuse to make an image that reminds me of some old paintings from 90’s? Anyway I actually enjoyed and am enjoying the big climax, as it were.

Exit Stage Left

alex — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:21:52 +0000

I’m into the last notes of the video for “Pain”. The characters walk off stage a little like an old vaudeville comedy team. They are sort of based on me ex’s little dogs who are a little like a comedy team in their antics too. They’ve been running around my feet the whole time. Pain, isn’t it adorable?

COGitate

alex — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:53:10 +0000

The last cog in the machine.

On the Beach

alex — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:19:49 +0000

Mobyo

alex — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:37:43 +0000

Moby meets the Court of the Crimson King.

To Sleep With The Fishes

alex — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 01:26:49 +0000

Donyo meet Peshyo

Abyss

alex — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:37:25 +0000

Plop plop fizz fizz, the snowball melts back to the skull and sinks into the briny depths.

Vineyard

alex — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:27:06 +0000

A rolling stone, gathers no grapes.

Donyo Was A Rolling Stone

alex — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:59:59 +0000

Or actually a dislodged skull turned snowball rolling down a mountain…

Below the tree line and into the valley below.

Sonyo

alex — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:20:28 +0000

Melt

SnowYo

Dead Dird

alex — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:31:19 +0000

I think this might be a small ode to Hemmingway’s Snows of Killimangaro? Anyway the gag seems to be working and the moral is keep your eyes ahead of you.

Dird

alex — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 01:47:41 +0000

PAX

Bird on a Limb

alex — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 03:50:51 +0000

That was a lot of petals to move. Now to master flight.

Ch Ch Ch Ch Cherry Tree!

alex — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:23:17 +0000

She says, “What’s that ugly thing? Are you making cherries?” And I think, “No I’m destroying the world.” But I say, “Well yeah, I guess it could be a cherry tree. Do you suppose I could draw Donyo as a bird? A little thing with wings and a human head?” “That sounds ugly,” She says. “I think it will be funny,” I say. So tune in later this week to see the flying cog.

Chesskers

alex — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 03:05:11 +0000

Check Mate now King me.

Smile A While

alex — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:48:19 +0000

This clock is happy and noon and midnight.

See Saw

alex — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:21:57 +0000

I saw a singing god eat the world and then suddenly I couldn’t see him, or hear him, or anything until I see a singing god…

Time Piece

alex — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 02:23:50 +0000

Just trying to draw the world on a Friday night.

Hold On

alex — Thu, 30 May 2013 05:17:19 +0000

Donyoyo

alex — Wed, 29 May 2013 06:41:38 +0000

Going through the paces.

Head

alex — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:18:53 +0000

Things are looking up… or rising from the dirt… or something

Orbit

alex — Fri, 17 May 2013 03:14:57 +0000

Things go round and round…

Skyline

alex — Wed, 15 May 2013 02:34:32 +0000

Spain went to New York.

Empty Spaces

alex — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:15:58 +0000

The Spanish Inquisition

alex — Sat, 11 May 2013 03:05:44 +0000

I had wanted the animation I’m working on to go to the dark space of NYC in the sixties that my dad sort of played with in the seventies out of Paul Klee I think… mixed with the rising minimalism and Joseph Albers, however the nice thing about a consecutively drawn animation is that other things happen in the chess game of self against time and space. Spain showed up with it’s arenas of Roman smiles. Plans foiled. Blood spilled. Moving on.

Beasties

alex — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:53:51 +0000

Cold and faceless

Boats

alex — Wed, 08 May 2013 05:29:05 +0000

Time rocks on.

Cog Turns

alex — Fri, 03 May 2013 06:30:39 +0000

The cog paces the screen.

April Showers

alex — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:02:24 +0000

The head in the clouds, or rather the head becomes the a cloud. Another from from the animation I’m playing with.

the thing and the thing itself

alex — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:59:31 +0000

well here it is: two months turned to two minutes talking about two years, she tells me. Well there is the words of the great painter Jim Dine and the music of the great Javier Hernandez-Miyares and the a special shout out to Steve Pacia and always Ponyo and Leo and 1000 other scans…. ummm… next.

The Rise and Fall

alex — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:15:37 +0000

crowd control

alex — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:45:45 +0000

all alone animating a crowd… theraputic or maddening.

Industry

alex — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:40:33 +0000

melt

alex — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:54:56 +0000

a day so warm and lovely that I saw bulbs fooled into thinking it was spring.

Where

alex — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:50:40 +0000

chair

alex — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:10:20 +0000

New Years Day Sleeper

alex — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:46:28 +0000

Spent New Year’s Eve with myself this year and erasermating…. however the new year calls for a new page (particularly as the last one was beginning to fall apart and ripple under the strain… so here is page one of the new year dreamer…. he has since morphed into a bad aproximation of one of my dad’s litho’s from the probably the 50’s…. but that was after midnight so it don’t count in the court of the crimson king.

Another Frame

alex — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:21:48 +0000

another frame in the couch sleeper animation, but suddenly the scanner is on the fritz (or rather fritzier than it was already). Could this be the end?

Animating Something That Doesn't Move

alex — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:50:23 +0000

I’m drawing and erasing an animation. Thought I’d share a couple of frames. The top one is the last state of the first page of paper, the head is exactly where I’m up to right now.

Animation Test

alex — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:05:26 +0000

The Devil In The Details

alex — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:12:49 +0000

. Experimenting with using the animations I did for Zipperhead against the narrations I performed.