There are those who might argue that animation is a genre, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. This particular issue was brought to light at the 2015 Academy Awards when Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson referred to animation as a genre while presenting the Oscar for best animated feature. This reflects a general opinion…Continue Reading Dissertation draft
Final Project work I was put in a group with Timmy and Jonathan to come up with a theme for our final animation project. We all put down ideas on a whiteboard and we looked over all our suggestions. Some ideas included aliens, another was a homage to Micheal Mann’s Collateral and various other…Continue Reading Final Project
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Tim Burton is a director that shifted to each medium constantly and stayed relatively aesthetically consistent. The first appearance of his iconic art style is seen in his short film, Vincent. His use of characters with pale skin, big baggy eyes, either monochromatic or flamboyant colors and thin limbs in German expressionist inspired landscapes started…Continue Reading Animation/Live Action
Tim Burton is a director that shifted to each medium constantly and stayed relatively aesthetically consistent. The first appearance of his iconic art style is seen in his short film, Vincent. His use of characters with pale skin, big baggy eyes, either monochromatic or flamboyant colors and thin limbs in German expressionist inspired landscapes started…Continue Reading Essay
The audio was from a Youtube channel called OneyPlays. The inspirations for the animation style were Danny Antonucci and David Feiss. You can see the influence in the linework and movements. I used a number of smear frames in the animation to show the speed of the change of expressions. I had the animation of…Continue Reading 9 Second Animation blog
The article I looked over about the film was Music, Memory and Narrative: The Art of Telling in Tale of Tales written by Ian Cross. I covered the section, Genesis and Production. That part of the article details how the idea for the film came about as well as parts of the production and the…Continue Reading Tale of Tales 1979 Genesis and Production 2
We were tasked with creating a caricature in Zbrush using a generic head base. I used an image of Ronald Reagan from Spitting Image to base my caricature off. For my first draft of the model, I started off creating my caricature by filling in the details using the standard brush to get details of…Continue Reading Zbrush
Tale of Tales (translated from Shazka Shazok) was conceived from multiple sources. The scripting of the film was written by the director Yuri Norstein and Lyudmila Petrushevskaia. It’s inspirations lie in the childhood of the director and the arts of early 19th century Russia. The structure of the film is noted to be similar to…Continue Reading Tale of Tales 1979 Genesis and Production