Sandanimation

Sand animation (also sand - on-glass animation or sand art ) is an art form which, with the help of sand paintings are created, usually on a lit from the bottom glass plate. This is done either as part of a performance in which the audience can witness the emergence of the images directly, or as an animation of a series of frames in a movie.

Sand animation as performance art

In a sand - performance artist draws with his finger lines and figures on a sanded surface and scatters sand on the new empty spaces, so that a series of images created. Often, an overhead projector is used as a base, which projects the resulting images on a wall and thus makes visible to the public.

Known sand - performance artists are eg:

  • Cakó Ferenc, a Hungarian sand artist who specializes mainly surrealistic images
  • Joe Castillo, he is known as one of the first artists sandy or sandy - storyteller
  • Erika Chen, a Chinese artist who paints under their sand -performance, singing and so on, inter alia, the Expo 2010 occurred
  • Su Dabao, one of the first Chinese sand artist
  • Ahmad Habash, a Palestinian artist living in Germany, who performed a sand animation performance for the third day of remembrance of the former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat
  • Aleksandra Konofalskaya, a Belorussian sand artist
  • Frauke Menger, a German sand artist
  • David Myriam, a French sand artist
  • Natalya Netselya, a Russian artist, 2010 Final Fifth of the show Das Supertalent, then on tour with the musical group The Kelly Family
  • Ksenija Symonowa, a Ukrainian artist who in the Ukrainian version of the show won the Super Talent with her sand - Performance 2009
  • Alyona Voynova, a Russian sand artist, born near the Russian city of Samara, uses sand from the Volga, inspired by the artist Ilana Yahav Sand Israeli
  • Katrin Weissensee, the first German artist of sand animation, 2006/2007 inspired by Ilana Yahav
  • Ilana Yahav, whose sand art has appeared in commercials for the U.S. telephone company Qwest

Sand Animation in animation form

When creating a sand animation film single sand paintings are created on one of the front or back -lit glass plate or a light table. These individual images are recorded and later assembled into a movie.

Known sand animators and films are, for example:

  • Alla Churikova that in Munich Animation Studio and Animation School operates with the movies E = mc2 (1996 ), Passion fatale (2001), The Eisbaderin (2003) and for Mathilde (2008)
  • Gerald Conn, a British filmmaker and animator, who won with his film The Comet 's Tale ( 1997), the BAFTA Award, 1998; In this film, he used both sand animation as well as oil - on-glass animation
  • Caroline Leaf, a Canadian- American filmmaker who is considered a pioneer of this kind of films, the films Sand, or Peter and the Wolf (1968) and The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend ( 1974)
  • Marcos Magalhães, Brazilian animator, who in his film Animando (1987 ) used a variety of animation techniques, including the sand animation.
  • Cesar Díaz Meléndez, the various awards for his animated films Entierra sand (2006), No. Corras tanto (2008) and Atormenta (2009) won
  • Eli Noyes, who, inter alia, in the 1970s created the sand animations Sandman
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