Bob Sabiston

Bob Sabiston (Flat Black Films) is credited for creating the rotoscoping program used in the films A Scanner Darkly and Waking life. The animation style has the effect of the photoshop "cutout" filter at times, but is all hand-drawn over video footage.

Some days, I most admire the people who make art tools. This studio includes a number of artists who, if I remember correctly, were for the most part not animators before working with Sabiston. I feel like, in a way, that creating artist software makes everything created with it into a collaboration.

Being really interested in rotoscoping, this work appeals to me more and more.

These guys make a lot of good stuff.
The Fourth Obstruction is really excellent - especially the silhouettes.

Jeremy Bailey

These videos are charming as hell.



The artist's presence is really apparent here [as he is in all of his own videos]. It's kind of hard to gauge the level of seriousness in each video. I'm pretty into that though.

I've heard before that it takes "a special kind of nerd" to make good art, and Bailey's a great example of this. His Video Paint programs are pretty neato, and there's a third version explanatory video. I'm always a proponent of artists making their own tools, which if you really think about it has been an important skill throughout all of art history. I think Video Paint is most exciting because I want to see if I can get my hands on a copy of it.. heh heh. :]


I feel that it's endlessly troublesome to try to repost videos though, so I'd recommend watching your fill on jeremybailey.net.