Further Research - Animating Stills

The following is a good example of still images being taken, cut, pasted, edited, and animated in order to create a whole new piece entirely, one that provides life and movement where there wasn't any before. It's the intro from a surfing documentary called Riding Giants, and uses both old photographs and suitably appropriate drawn artwork to make the piece fit the surfing theme. I think its a great example of just what can be done with simple still images, if given the time and vision to make them work on a much more impressive scale...

EDIT - Sorry about the lack of sound, their were uploading issues, but the main focus is the visual anyway!

The documentary is from 2004, and this technique has since been used countless times since, in many equally as creative and sometimes even more impressive ways. It's a fantastic way of paying tribute to our documented past by using actual images of the time, with today's digital motion technology, as well as celebrating nicely polished artwork by incorporating hard drawn sketches alongside it.

It would be fun to play around with still images like this and create something that moves purely from images that originally didn't, and never intended to.

In a way it even harks back to the old Terry Gilliam Monty Python animations, where a similar method was done using old photos in order to create something set in motion, albeit something crazy and random...

The technique itself does have a humorous feel to it, and in a sense, can only be taken so seriously as a result. It's probably not serious enough for what I want from this project, but it's certainly a great insight into how the process itself works.