Short Bites - How to Cope with Death and Madame Tutli-Putli

How to Cope with Death



Madame Tutli-Putli

Notes from 19th October session

Notes

• Discussion of production techiques for final films.
  - After Effects and green screen practicality within Paul's Red Bull idea.
  - Smudge and boil effects for Matt's space senario.
  - Use of movie clip layers inside Flash for Allison's animated book illustrations.

Task

Watch this weeks film Corpse bride.

Keep blogging! There's been some great posts so far.

Film Watch - Corpse Bride

This week's film is Corpse Bride. How do you feel about the level of sophistication behind the puppets' mechanics? Do they make the animation too precise and absent of the humanistic mistakes or is it simply a step toward more detailed control and greater expressive power for the animators?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121164/

Short Bites - Skhizein and Dix

Skhizein

Dix
(Warning: contains some gore)



Film Watch - My Neighbours the Yamadas

This weeks film is the quirky and illustrative Studio Ghibli animation My Neighbours the Yamadas.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206013/

Notes from 12th October session

Notes

• Matthew discussed progress of blogs with Matt, Paul and Allison.
  - Anyone wondering what to do for their own blogs should take a quick look at these three blogs (linked on the right), there is some exemplar work.
• Ashley reviewed progress of projects and highlighted the Red Bull Canimation competition as a possible project.
• Studio work continued on the major projects and competition briefs.

Task

Watch this weeks film 'My Neighbours the Yamadas' an animation with a quirky style and some illustrative flair.

Matthew is available again next week for running through blogging with anyone who needs assistance with creating posts so please come and ask for help if you need it.

Art Clokey

Hello! The Google front page has informed me that today is Art Clokey's 90th brithday. I was aware of his creation, Gumby, but didn't know much about the man. He seems like a interesting chap and I'll look further into his life and work some time soon. His first film (entitled 'Gumbasia') is a perfect example of how you can create exciting and entertaining stop-motion work without spending a lot of time or money; his exuberant ideas, and a bit of clay was all he needed.

Fashion Photography meets Animation

An interesting artical I came accross yesterday, possibly of use to you Dan?

How a Blogging Duo Is Changing Fashion Photography With Animated Cinemagraphs

Comics festival in London

Just a note to those interested in comics (Katie, Nat & James). This is a 3 day series of events in London involving some of the most popular Graphic Novelists. Please check out (at least in terms of research) and possibly visit. There are some really interesting people here and you can follow links from the site to check them out further.

www.institut-francais.org.uk/bdandcomicspassion

I particularly like work of Bastien Vives (pictured)

There are also competitions which you can enter and general contact information for this area of Illustration.

Film Watch - The Dark Crystal

This weeks film is the Jim Henson and Frank Oz, puppet-tastic saga 'The Dark Crystal'.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083791

Notes from 5th October session

Notes

• Reminded eveyone of the need to have a professional blog up and running ASAP
• You need to be posting brief updates during every week to keep track of the progress you are making on your pre-production work - these can be as simple as one sentaince + an image posts!
• Continued with studio work
• There is now a Facebook group to keep you up to date, just search on Facebook for 'WMC BA Illustration with Animation' to find it

Task

Watch this weeks film 'The Dark Crystal', and catch up with last weeks 'Moon' if you didn't get a chance to see it.

Also make at least 1 post on your blog, remember...

Tech Cues - Basic blog posts

Remember you need to be blogging your progress through the pre-production work. This can even be a simple image with one line of text a la Twitter style, or an occasional more in depth summery of your thoughts so far on your project. The important thing is to post regulally straight after you create or discover somthing new! It takes less than 2 mins.

A really basic guide to putting up a blog post for anyone who is unsure / needs a reminder.