Tuesday, June 13, 2017

BSA306, animation from the 2000s, 13 June, 2017

Bob Sabiston and Richard Linklater (usa)
Bob developed animation program Rotosohop
enables plainting over keyframe sof live action footage and program fill in in-between frames
created short film Snack and Drink (1999) which follows an autistic boy as he goes to the convenience store.



Bob teamed up with  Richard in 2001 for Waking Life and Through a Scanner Darkly (2006)

Michael Gondry (France)
music video director, Bjork's Human Behavior (1993) inspired by Yuri Norstein's Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)

used early "bullet -time" effect using line of still cameras to capture sequence of images from different angles at the same time
Rolling Stones "Like a Rolling Stone" video

White Stripes "Hardest Button to Button" video

Chris Shepherd (UK)  Dad's Dead
mix of live action and animation short film
Who I am and What I want

Chris Landreth (Canada)
Ryan (2004) animated doc about his hero Ryan Larkin a Canadian animator who made oscar nominated Walking (1969)
Chris interviews Ryan about his drug and alcohol problems and animates the conversation.  Ryan was inspired to go into rehab and start a new film Spare Change but died before completing it.

Life is Beautiful (1997) Italy, comedy

 
trailer
We watched this in class today and will finish it next week.  I've seen it before, and loved it.  The moments that stayed with me were the sadness and happiness that followed at the end when Roberto Benigni's character dies and his son, released from the concentration camp by the Allies, comes across a tank liberating the countryside.  "It's true!" he shouts.  (His father had told him that good boys who didn't cry in the camp or ask for mama would get a tank when it was all over.)

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