Dailymation

The Story of Cholera

2011-12-19T11:53:00.000-08:00

I've been working on this one for quite some time!

Some months ago, Global Health media Project , a health organization dedicated to educating and helping people in developing countries through medical videos, asked me to create an animated short on how to treat and prevent the cholera disease.

The production itself, for various reasons, took longer than I anticipated, but it was important for me to follow through and get this one out, so when I started working as director of animation for Ari Folman's "The Congress" a few months ago, I continued working on it nights and weekends (Which is partially the reason I didn't post anything for such a long time).

All in all, I think this long journey paid off, and so I'm very proud to present this short film.

You can also view the short's official page at Global Health media Project's site

Credits Are Important!

Director

Yoni Goodman

Producer

Deborah Van Dyke

Story

Deborah Van Dyke

Yoni Goodman

Design

Yoni Goodman

Animation

Yoni Goodman

Sefi Gayego

Music and Sound Effects

Uri Kalian

The Life and Loves of Fred the Silkworm

2011-06-21T14:06:00.000-07:00

Technically, they're not really worms

We grew quite a lot of them recently with the kids- crazy little critters
(The silkworms)

Done in about two hours

Dailymation- Robotic failures

2011-06-05T13:46:00.000-07:00

This model was discontinued shortly after.

Done in about an hour and a half

Dailymation- Do Not Adjust Your Sets

2011-05-31T14:11:00.001-07:00

I'm back!

It's Been quite a while :-P

Sorry for the long break, if you're following this blog (?).

For the past month or so I was swamped beyond human comprahansion with work and deadlines which had to get cleared up before starting my work on our next feature ("The Congress") (Which I did two weeks ago). And although I still have one project to finish, I'm going to get back on track and do as many dailymations as I can (sleep is for the mortals, I have to live up to the motto).

This is something I started some time ago and just came back to

Hope you enjoy it!

Thanks for your patience (or lack of it)

As always- feel free to comment

Dailymation- Lady with a Whip

2011-04-27T14:29:00.000-07:00

Wouldn't mess around with that one... :-)

Done in about an hour

Dailymation- Sticky Fingers

2011-04-19T14:55:00.000-07:00

Had this image of the merging hand while I was slightly drunk
(too drunk to animate it at that specific moment)

Done in about an hour and a half

Dailymation- Breaking Loose

2011-04-11T15:02:00.000-07:00

Done in about an hour

Dailymation-Anat's Crazy Somersault

2011-04-04T16:20:00.000-07:00

Taking requests can be a risky thing!

Following my son's request to animate him as an astronaut ( Here ) and my youngest to animate her properly doing cartwheels ( Here ), now it's my eldest, Anat's turn.

And pushing the envelope, as she would do, she requested ten Somersaults off the ground.

So here it is! I think this is the longest I've done so far :-P

Done in about two hours

Dailymation- Plane tossing

2011-03-30T16:15:00.000-07:00

A relatively new yet promising olympic field

Done in about an hour and a half

Dailymation- Reconstruction

2011-03-25T17:40:00.000-07:00

I had the image of the stairs/tounge and just let everything else build itself around it.

Done in about two hours

Dailymation-Walking woman

2011-03-23T16:26:00.001-07:00

Done in about an hour and a half

Dailymation- Going the Distance

2011-03-18T15:08:00.000-07:00

A little more work on stretching and extreme closeups

Done in about two hours

Dailymation- Getting Butterflies

2011-03-09T15:41:00.000-08:00

Lots of butterflies! :-P

Done in about an hour an a half

Dailymation- Head's on Fire

2011-03-07T14:49:00.000-08:00

Done in about an two hours

Dailymation- Swordfight

2011-02-28T15:50:00.000-08:00

Didn't really plan how this fight would go, I let the characters lead the way. at some points I thought I'd let one guy win, then I countered the attack and let the other take the offensive, so in a way it was a bit like an actual swordfight (only m-u-c-h slower)
eventually no one won, I guess.

Done in about two hours

Dailymation- Drummer

2011-02-23T15:52:00.001-08:00

Just wanted to get a loose and strong rubberhose motion

Done in about two hours

Dailymation- Noa's Revised Cartwheel

2011-02-21T14:03:00.000-08:00

A while ago I did a dailymation titled "3 cartwheels" , showing the different ways each of my children does a cartwheel.
Appearantly my youngest, Noa, was not too pleased with the result, and she came to me today and said- "Do you know? when you and mom are not looking, I do GREAT cartwheels! and THAT'S what you should have animated"
So, I stand corrected, and this is how Noa does a cartwheel (When we're not looking)

Done in about an hour and a half

Dailymation- Shlomo the Cop

2011-02-20T16:27:00.000-08:00

Shlomo the cop was a cameo that appeared in me and Uri inks'
graduation film "The Chuck and Norris Show"
This guy is a friendly, carefree and psychotic trigger happy cop.
He was never actually animated, just a still frame as one of the guests in a talk show, but we loved him so much and always played with the idea of giving him his own spot. Following a conversation with Uri last week, we laughed about it and I decided to revive him for a bit
So here he is!

Done in about two and a half hours

And this is Shlomo The cop, in his original appearance

Dailymation- The monkey not taken

2011-02-13T16:06:00.001-08:00

This monkey was part of a rejected concept for a project I am working on
I just had to animate him, though

Done in about two hours

Dailymation- Rabbit

2011-02-08T15:16:00.001-08:00

Done in about 2 hours

Dailymation- Itamar the astronaut

2011-02-01T15:15:00.000-08:00

"what are you animating today daddy?"
"I havn't decided yet"
"well- you should animate me, as an astronaut"
(that was about it)

Done in about an hour and a half

Dailymation- Bubbles!

2011-01-29T14:41:00.000-08:00

Unlike most dailymations- this was done almost completely in ones. you can't make bubbles work fluids work well otherwise (and it's much more fun)

Done in about an hour and a half

Dailymation- Big guns!

2011-01-25T15:50:00.000-08:00

I love drawing machines!

Done in about two hours

Dailymation- Dead man in the park

2011-01-24T02:48:00.000-08:00

I passed next to this scene in my car yesterday. If it wasn't for the police, I'd think he's just an old man who nodded off on a park bench.
I passed there again today, it was like it never happened.

possibly the longest time I sepnt on a dailymation
a bit more than three hours

Dailymation- Cupcake!

2011-01-20T15:32:00.000-08:00

Dedicated to my wife, Gaya, who makes those for a living
The real ones never get away, mind you.

Done in about an hour

This is what it looks like when she makes them

Hmm... Cupcakes...

How's this for hidden commercials!

This Blog's about animation, right?

Dailymation-Gorilla

2011-01-19T15:18:00.000-08:00

Done in about an hour and a half

Dailymation- Bad habits

2011-01-17T14:38:00.000-08:00

I saw this man many years ago, When I was working as a security guard in a hospital. he was very old and probably had a bad addiction to cigarettes which his wife forbade him to smoke and swore us not to give.
Eventually when she wasn't looking He'd pick up butts off the floor and smoke what was left of them, and as soon as she came back he'd toss them aside in a speed you wouldn't believe. There was something very comic and very tragic about the way he did that.
thirteen years later I still remember him.

Done in about an hour and a half.

Dailymation- Tree

2011-01-15T15:10:00.000-08:00

I didn't really think about it while working on this until at a relatively late point I realised this is a sort of a homage to the amazing tree scene from Miyazaki's "Totoro"
I just began with the branches and the tree was completely naked, and then when I added the leaves it was just there.
It was fun doing it, anyway.

Done in about two hours

Dailymation-Anat drawing

2011-01-12T13:56:00.000-08:00

My eldest daughter Anat drawing a picture

Done in about an hour and a half

Dailymation- Running

2011-01-11T14:19:00.000-08:00

Done in about an hour and a half

Dailymation- Mad rooster

2011-01-10T02:15:00.000-08:00

Another hand drawn camera movement.

done in about an hour and a half.

Dailymation-Man in a Hospital

2011-01-06T16:02:00.000-08:00

A man I saw in a hospital today

Done in about two hours

Dailymation- Liftoff!

2011-01-04T15:45:00.001-08:00

This is dedicated to Ari Folman and David Polonsky, who boarded a plane to the US today to start setting up the live shoot for our next feature "The Congress".

Hoping they get everything done on time! I'm supposed to start my part around April 2011, so for now, I just animate bizzare planes on my spare time. (This is actually quite mellow in comparison to what's going to happen in the movie)

Done in about two hours

Dailymation-Hand

2011-01-03T14:35:00.000-08:00

Just toyed around with this one. Hands are probably one of the most complex things to animate (except the face maybe) and one the most fun to animate.

Done in about 2 hours.

Dailymation- Elephant

2010-12-30T07:09:00.000-08:00

An elephant walking. this was done to work on hand drawn camera movement.

done in about 2 hours

Dailymation-The weight of the world

2010-12-29T15:47:00.001-08:00

Another weight and mass exercise. One of the most important things I've learnt is the value of double takes- it adds so much to the character's believability when things dont go smooth and accurate

Done in about 3 hours

Dailymation- Kindergarden

2010-12-27T08:13:00.000-08:00

Me and my youngest daughter, Noa, going back from the kindergarden
(in her usual "I'm too tired to walk" routine)

Done in about two and a half hours

Dailymation- Chola

2010-12-23T14:59:00.000-08:00

My dog, Chola, typically jumping to sit on someone (or something)
When she was young, she could jump 6 feet in the air

Done in about two hours

Dailymation- Drunk

2010-12-22T14:31:00.000-08:00

He's probably an ex wrestler or something, working as a bouncer in a club when he's not pissed drunk. The fun thing about animating this one is was I could just sort of let each pose call the shots on where the other few frames go. Classic strightahead

Done in about 2 hours

Maratoons- Chinese tale

2010-12-20T15:25:00.000-08:00

I've been busy for the last 5 days with an Israeli animation competition called "Maratoon". We were given 5 days to create a 30 second to a minute of animation and use three elements given to us on the kickoff.

This year the elements were "a Tail" "a Gong" and "Extortion" (The word in hebrew also means rinsing).

I had some spare time on my hand so me and Uri Inks, my regular partner during college years decided to go at it for old times' sake.

It came very close to the way it was back then, especially the lack of sleep, but at the end of it all- for a 5 days' work Im quite pleased with the result.

Oh- one more thing- this movie is played via an Israel stream site, and this site hands out a small cash prize for crowd's choice- and that's based on viewing and posting a grade
This link takes you to my page in the competition site. It's in hebrew, but on the bottom left are number 1-5- clicking on them rates the film (5 is highest). (Voting is till december 28th)
so if you want you can go over there and click. Share it with your friends! viewing counts too! (This is really low eh?)

****UPDATE- "Chinese Tale" won jury prize in "Maratoons 2010"******

Credits are important!

Director, animator and script- Yoni Goodman

Art Director- Uri Inks

Music and sound design- Uri Kalian

Dailymation- The cape

2010-12-16T16:23:00.000-08:00

It's just not the same if the wind doesn't blow through your cape

Done in about an hour and a half

Downloadable Quicktime link (right click and save target as)

Dailymation- Morning at the Goodmans'

2010-12-14T15:00:00.000-08:00

My middle son Itamar on any regular morning (Or as he puts it- 'I'm not really going back to sleep- I'm dreaming with my eyes open'- as opposed to sitting up, which is 'just thinking')

took about 2 hours

Downloadable Quicktime link (right click and save target as)

Dailymation- Double Bounce Barney

2010-12-13T20:14:00.000-08:00

Originally he was supposed to be an old man, and move kind of slow and unconfident, but from the first drawing This guy just wanted to do a little double bounce dance, so I went with him

took about 2 hours

*Added

Downloadable Quicktime link

Dailymation- The Secret Something in the Box

2010-12-12T09:23:00.000-08:00

Had some spare time :-P

took somewhere between 2-3 hours

Dailymation- Fishy

2010-12-10T15:27:00.000-08:00

Done in about 2 hours

The Gift regifted

2010-12-10T12:30:00.000-08:00

Not dailymation this time- this is an animation project I finished and uploaded quite some time ago, with approval from the director (Ari Mark), but a few days later he asked me to temporarily remove it from the web so it won't hurt the film's distribution deals.

Well, now it's all behind him (he got the deal), and he gave the OK to reactivate the movie, so I'm taking the opportunity to re-release it on the blog.

This is an animation sagment from Ari Mark's short film, "The Gift" (2010). My part in it was about two and a half minutes of animation integrated in a live short film. It's a great film, about loss, and identity, and the ability to let go.

(A few credits)
Director- Ari Mark
Animation Director- Yoni Goodman
Animation- Yoni Goodman
Sefi Gayego
Design and visual effects- Yoni Goodman

Dailymation- Anat's Dance

2010-12-08T15:33:00.000-08:00

My eldest daughter Anat (7.5) performs in a show they made today for the parents in her jazz dance course.
She's really good! :-) (and I'm being completely impartial here!)

done in about an hour

Dailymation- The Actor

2010-12-07T15:28:00.000-08:00

Went to a play with my kids. It was noisy, and loud, and stupid, and they loved it(go figure).
The one good thing I found about it was the actor who played the bad guy. He had this great cartoony exaturated acting- really stretched his body to very strange extremes- it sort of looked like this.

Done in about an two hours

Dailymation- Nature strikes back!

2010-12-06T15:01:00.000-08:00

about an hour and a half's work

Dailymation-Dance

2010-12-05T13:53:00.000-08:00

I'm not much of a choreographer or a dancer for that matter, I sort of let the pose of the character lead to the next logical step and just go with the flow.
so If you're a professional dancer and this guy doesn't move right- don't blame me- this was all his doing!

done in about an hour and a half

Dailymation- Damn Cat!

2010-12-03T13:45:00.000-08:00

Dedicated to anyone who owns a cat and is within a proximity to a roof.

Done in about two hours

Dailymation- Stretch Limo

2010-12-01T09:48:00.000-08:00

A real stretch limo. You've seen one, you've seen them all
(except maybe those weird Hummer limos)

done in about an hour and a half

Dailymation- Three cartwheels

2010-11-30T12:25:00.000-08:00

This was done after watching my three kids do a cartwheel.
The first one is my eldest, Anat (7.5), the second is Itamar (5.5) and the last is Noa (3.5).
It was funny to watch because each one has a lot of his/her personality in this move- Anat goes very cautiously and seriously into it, Itamar just fearlessly throws himself in without overthinking consequences (and broken body parts) and Noa just has a big laugh out of the whole thing

Done in about an hour and a half

Dailymation- Bones VS. Rubberhose

2010-11-29T12:45:00.000-08:00

a rough battle between the two techniques
Bones (more anatomical "realistic" animation) and rubberhose (a looser
cartoony approach to mass)

took around 2 hours

Dailymation- Old age

2010-11-25T08:17:00.000-08:00

old woman getting to a chair
Thought i'd try something with a little more weight

took about an hour and a half

Dailymation- Death by bouncing balls!

2010-11-24T05:42:00.001-08:00

Bouncing balls are fun- every animation student knows that
Killer bouncing balls are the best!

went a little long with this one- about 2 hours

Dailymation-fancy dress

2010-11-23T11:18:00.000-08:00

Went for a classic fluffy disney dress this time-
Don't try this at home!

Done in about 1 hour

Dailymation- Metamorphosis part1

2010-11-22T11:03:00.000-08:00

Just went for a smooth transition from one thing to the other, without too much planning of what comes next. it was great fun and rather quick to do
Done in less then 1 hour
comments are (always) welcome

Dailymation- Noa Battles the fridge

2010-11-22T10:55:00.000-08:00

I was doing this after watching my youngest daughter Noa take a coke bottle out of the fridge. It was funny how she lets the door sort of take control of her body.

Done in about 2 hours.

Dailymation- Anat Judo

2010-11-22T10:50:00.000-08:00

This is my daughter Anat in a judo practice.
done in about an hour.

Dailymation- Boxer

2010-11-22T10:48:00.000-08:00

A boxer, this was a character I though of using for a short film I might or might not do one day.

done in about an hour
comment or thoughts are (always) appreciated

Dailymation- Anat on a ladder

2010-11-22T10:45:00.000-08:00

This is after watching my eldest daugter Anat in a playground.
done in about one and a half hours.
comment or thoughts will be appreciated.

Dailymation- girl running

2010-11-22T10:43:00.000-08:00

This one is just a girl running from something.
done in about an hour.
comment or thoughts will be appreciated.

Dailymation- getting a dryer on a boat

2010-11-22T10:41:00.000-08:00

Another rough exercise in traditional animation, just to loosen the hand a bit and study the weights and motion.
This one is following a joke I had with Ari Folman regarding the best way to get my laundry dryer aboard his boat. (This was at a point we thought that for our next feature we might move to france and I suggested I could save money on shipping by taking my stuff on his boat
done in about an hour and a half.
comment or thoughts are (always) appreciated.

Dailymation- Itamar on a swing

2010-11-22T10:38:00.000-08:00

this was done after watching and analysing how my son, Itamar, climbs a swing.
I never noticed before how his head almost touches the ground at some point. maybe it's just him. he has very strange ways of doing things.
done in one hour.

Comments are (always) welcome.

Dailymations- suit

2010-11-22T09:30:00.000-08:00

I decided to do a daily rough exercise in traditional animation, just to loosen the hand a bit and study the

weights and motion.

this is the first one. I was inspired to do this after watching Milt Kahl's Roger from 101 Dalmation
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IOls6NGIso ), although the acting is, of course, quite different.

done in one hour.

comment or thoughts will be appreciated.