Team Name: Who Does Number 4 Work For? – (what do you guys think of that team name?)
Team Members: John / Ashley / Zack
Availability:
John Monday and Wednesday
Ashley Monday and Wednesday after 3:30 – Sundays if necessary – will be away last week in January 26 – February 2
Zack Monday and Wednesday after 3:30 – Sundays if necessary
Resources:
John high quality SLR camera – Flash/Illustrator graphics for title sequences or graphic effects
Ashley not so great quality miniDV camera – audio mixing software, but not the know how to use it
Zack good video 8 camera – access to high-end school cameras – knows Premiere really well
Initial Thoughts:
- Tension = awkwardness or tension between people
- when you talk to someone you like, you don’t know what to say
- simple ideas can
- tension can orchestrate a simple event into a more complex event
- difficult thing look effortless
- Ashley wants to get a bare room and dance for 12 hours straight but with on song looped for 1 hour = ultimate compilation
- audience would say, “why is this chick still dancing to the same song?!?!?”
- transformation from poor video format to high end
- finger nails scratching a blackboard
- wading through water that is off-limits to the public / utilizing them for bathing
- SCUBA HOOD and Regarde la Lune by Tom Green
- play with the notion of what’s acceptable
- milk crate ladders that lead up to a roof – simple elements that lead to a solution / access / greater achievement
- James Luna – California based artist who put himself on display in a Museum of Anthropoly
- guy goes into galleries and offers his body up to the audience to do whatever they ask – Chris Burden?
- bodily investment FTW
- take our bodies to verge of their breaking points (metaphorically or literally)
- Earthlings – narrated by Joaquin Phoenix – don’t eat a hamburger while watching this movie
- against school policy to harm yourself in any school projec
“The Humorous phases of funny faces” – J. Stewart Blackton?
FIRST ANIMATION EVER 1906
- done with chalk so it was erased with each frame
“Fantasmagorie” – Emile Cohl
- first true animation in August 1908
- graphite on paper
“Walking” – Ryan Larkin
- was nominated for an academy award in 1970, but Ryan lost his way and fell into drugs and despair “Ryan” – Chris Landreth
part 1
part 2
- a 2004 Oscar-winning animated documentary by Chris Landreth about the influential Canadian animator Ryan Larkin (see above – he did “Walking”), who in later years lived on skid row in Montreal following a history of drug and alcohol abuse. Earl Heard 1915 – invented celluloid animation – all studios had to pay him a royalty until the patent ran into the public domain
“The Old Mill” – Disney
- tricks of the trade – multi-plane camera
- special effects animation from back in 1937 – old school cgi hand drawn and hand painted (very labour intensive)
- editing is so important, it’s how you move an audience
- as the storm builds, the shots get closer and closer – cutting/editing make the film
- Walt Disney spent only 12 years to refine animation from Steamboat Willy to Fantasia
- Disney either created or refined modern day aspects of animation
- Leonard Maltin has published numerous animation history books, including “Of Mice and Magic”
- 1937 – Snow White – used multi-plane camera up to Little Mermaid – last time it was used
- now they use D Canvas or Caps and computers to simulate 3d and distance
- “Minnie the Moocher”
- opening with Cab Calloway Hidy Hidy Ho!
- Cab Calloway was the man back in the day! Max Fleischer vs. Disney studios
- Betty Boop was one of the first fully female animated characters- early example of rotoscoping with Cab dancing – precursor to Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly plus the iPod commercials as well – music video by The New Pornographers Waking Life – Trailer
A Scanner Darkly – Trailer
New Pornographers – Myriad Harbour
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed)
- 300,000 cut outs to make this film – Lotte Reiniger – made in 1927
- very first animated feature film – she was the only one who did the cut outs – silhouette animation film
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello – steampunk animation
The Old Man and the Sea – Alexander Petrov
part 1
part 2
- hand painted on glass (finger painting)
- wow – incredible paintings – clouds turn into elephants – lions – the sailing ship
- amazing detail in the oar slicing through the water and having the drops drip down
- the swordfish leaps several feet out of the water and keeps puling the boat further out to sea
- phosphorescence at night is beautiful – the crowd of people on the beach is incredibly detailed
- in the credits, it shows the director Alexander Petrov hand painting each individual glass frame
Peter and the Wolf – Suzie Templeton (also did a film called “Dog”)
- stop motion puppet animation
MISC CLASS NOTES:
lots of cutting edge animation happening in music videos
international film festival – should check it out
the story of pixar – director leslie was grand-daughter of the guy who helped do steamboat willy
- the man who planted trees was roger lassiter’s inspiration – he played it to introduce his festival
- not an actual true story – was fiction – frederick back
animation = bringing life out of something static
- animation is about drawing movement
- is it possible to make a bad film with beautiful drawings (star wars 1-3, final fantasy…)
- can you make a good film with bad drawings (rejected, simpsons, don hertzfeld)
Welcome to the Show – Don Hertzfeld
- DAMN THE ILLUSION OF MOVEMENT TO HELL!!!!!
Intermission – Don Hertzfeld
End of the Show – Don Hertzfeld
Rejected – Don Hertzfeld
- animation = just for kids?!?!? nope, it is much much more
- film screenings on wednesday help showcase the various techniques
STOP MOTION
- claymation (chicken run)
- paper cut out (south park, adventures of prince achmed – first animated film ever) aka silhouette animation
- puppet animation (nightmare before christmas)
- pixelation (neighbours, space jam, white stripes hardest button to button
- object animation – stop motion (joanna priestley)
- experimental (painted glass, the street, norman mclaren)
- pin screen animation (very rare – use pin screen – NFB animations – do research – each shot is unique – cannot be recreated – alex alexsov)
- rotoscope (waking life, a scanner darkly)
- cell animation (disney, looney toons, duck amuck)
- limited animation (simpsons – all you get is mouth/hand being animated vs. disney where the entire body is animated)
aka illustrated radio because the shots are reused 1960′s cartoons like spider man)
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