Monday, February 6, 2017

BSA324, First assignment, 25 January, 2017

Contemporary animation practitioner research



What animation project have I done in the last two years that gave me the most pleasure and the greatest feeling of accomplishment?  What would I like to pursue in my third year project?  I loved animating my illustrated journals.  Who does something similar in technique?

Cut and paste animation

Wonder Pets
created by Josh Selig for Little Airplane Productions
created using "photo-puppetry"
directed by Jennifer Oxley
Little Airplane Productions
3rd and Bird! different is good song
Small Potatoes
wtf.  It's a potato singing about being a potato whilst being serenaded by a harpist.  "We're all potatoes... we're all.... Potatoes!"

Monty Python's Terry Gilliam explains how he animates

A song by Massimo Giangrade   I love this!  I don't want to do stop-motion, but I would like it to LOOK like paper cut stop-motion


directed and animated by Gianluca Maruotti
illustrations by: Felicita Sala- felicitasala.blogspot.it
post production: Juan Pablo Etcheverry
produced by: Ermanno Foti- ESN Publishing
2013
Making of video

Domestikia:  The Incident in the Nursery

Artwork, animation and directing/editing by Jennifer Linton 2012

Submarine Test January 1967, song by John Mayer
"pre-cinema technique called ombro cinema to animate the drawings made by Virginia Mori.
Everything was filmed in live-action, no post-production effects were employed."
Director: Virgilio Villoresi
virgiliovilloresi.com


Beautiful, slow movements of the cameras as the paper puppets are moved across the table or hte pages of the book.

Yo Gabba Gabba

Guardian article on children's TV business
How movies can build character for kids
Little Kids (age 2–7)
  • Pick simple story lines. Little kids learn best from movies with one main idea that's central to the plot and supported by the action.
  • Make it obvious. If it were in print, the lesson would be in bold, capitalized, and underlined three times. Little kids need it to be that blatant.
  • Look for human characters. Although animated movies rule the box office, little kids actually learn best when human characters demonstrate the lesson. Think of the 1960 Disney movie Pollyanna, whose lead character was so empathic that her name came to mean "someone who finds the good in everyone."
  • Try: Dear Dumb DiaryThe Indian in the CupboardVeggieTales: Madame Blueberry
Big Kids (age 8–9)
  • Keep it simple. To learn lessons from movies, elementary school-age kids still need to see the basic cause-and-effect sequence of how a character's motives are connected to actions and consequences.
  • Find the funny. Kids learn when they laugh. The challenge is finding movies that don’t mock the lesson you want them to learn. Some character traits, such as curiosity, can be dealt with humorously, as in the Curious George series.
  • Forget fables. While movies with an implied (not obviously stated) moral seem obvious to parents, they're lost on kids (until about age 9).
  • Emphasize the positive. Look for mostly positive examples of the lesson rather than negative examples. If you want kids to learn courage, for example, they need to see attempts at courage and courageous acts being repeated and rewarded throughout the movie.
  • TryThe Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The NeverEnding StoryCharlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)


The Moe Show
The Moe Show website
Jeremy Dillon on channel four, funded by NZ On Air


http://www.edudemic.com/educational-tv-shows/
http://www.edudemic.com/computer-games-as-lesson-plan/

Lazy Town

Sesame Street Furry Potter and the Goblet of Cookies (listening to instructions)

Life of Whoopie Pie (self-control strategies)

Children's Television Network

Veggie Tales opening theme song
tropes
production company Huhu Studios 2009-present


VFX practitioners
Ken Ralston lifetime achievement award
Who Framed Roger Rabbit


blend of live action and animated characters and backgrounds
PolarExpress
mo-cap filming of live actors to create animated actors
"the worst enemy of art is the lack of limitations"
Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton)
credits on IMDB  Star Wars through Alice Through the Looking Glass as VFX supervisor


shows to research
Dirt Girl World

The Fairies youtube

Blaze the monster machine;

Team umizoomi;

Bubble guppies..

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