Objects At Rest

[ explorations in audio and moving imagery ]

AboutObjects at Rest is the animation studio of Grant Goans located in Atlanta Georgia, USA. This site delivers ongoing news about the production of Grant’s stopmotion and video experiments which is currently consist of one project tentatively called Vitruvius. Information about his short films “Man Drawing a Reclining Woman” and “The Sword of Damocles” are available through this site. “I’ve learned many things by reading the blogs and web sites of other animators so I am attempting to contribute and give back to the animation community with my production blog. Hopefully some of the information or links I make available will help other animators achieve success in their creative projects. My vision of film-making is still a work in progress. Until I can adequately state my objectives regarding cinema and animation my philosophy is best described as a mix of the principles and concepts found in the following quotes.” — Grant “The cinema is truth 24 frames per second.” – Jean-Luc Godard “I always feel that stop-motion adds a semi-realism, a dream quality. If you make fantasy too real, you bring it down to the mundane. And I think that’s so important.” – Ray Harryhausen (from an online article by…
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VICTUAL 2 has been posted

My experiment with clay continues. VICTUAL 2 is now on Vimeo.

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