Resources: Metropolitan Museum of Art images, 11 February, 2017

375,000 images free for unlimited use under Creative Commons Zero


Ask Chris MacDonald if he can download this for use like we use the free music library.

This painting, for instance, could be picked apart and animated like I did my illustrated journal entries.

BSA303, Internship, Job titles and responsibilties, 11 February, 2017

JOB DESCRIPTION

Sesame Workshop is looking for an Administrative Production Assistant (APA) for a new preschool animated series, Esme & Roy, being produced for HBO in conjunction with an outside animation studio. The Administrative Production Assistant will report to the Executive in Charge of Production, and will support the Co-Executive Producers, and the Supervising Creative Producer, with all ongoing project-based tasks. The APA will also assist with other productions within the company as the need arises.  Please note: This is a 12 month temporary contract.

Job responsibilities include but not limited to: 

General duties such as: furnish, receive, track and distribute animation materials to and from the outside animation studio; scripts, storyboards, master design packs, episode design packs, Leica reels, animation tests, SFX selections, final animation, etc. The APA will support management of the animation asset library and the archiving of all final production materials into SW databases, and will support the distribution of animation deliverables to the SW digital department. The APA will input and track all writer contracts and payments and also support the implementation of department-sponsored events.  Additionally, the APA will prepare As Broadcast scripts, complete expense report preparation, maintenance of the department’s activity calendar, travel coordination and office supply and perform other duties as assigned on other productions within Sesame Workshop.

Qualifications

• 2+ years prior experience in animation series production a must
• Fluent MS Office Skills (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Good understanding of the digital post production delivery process
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong familiarity with animation asset library management systems
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Good planning and organizational skills
• Detailed-oriented problem solver
• Able to work under deadline within tight timeframes

Women in Film Tv WIFT jobs page  Can I use my SIT 3rd year project money to join?

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 Diary, The Indian in the Cupboard, VeggieTales: 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.
• Try: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The NeverEnding Story, Charlie 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..

Summer research, movies, 6-7 January, 2017

Wreck it Ralph
2012, director Rich Moore, Disney

Amazing sequence inside the combat video game with a million bugs swirling around.

The Crown
2016, Netflix

Great sequence putting angry elephants together with the actors.

Shrek Forever After
2010, director Mike Mitchell, Dreamworks

Not the best of the Shrek movies, but I did love the costume design work for Rumplestilskin

Hotel Transylvania
2012, director Genndy Tartovsky of Powerpuff Girls with Craig McCracken
I loved the 2000s Powerpuff Girls, so I'm very fond of Genndy Tartovsky.

JSG Boggs is Dead, 30 January, 2017

NYTimes article

He's one of my favourite artists- his ideas about money, it's value, and why we trade it (why is it worth anything at all?) were so interesting.  RIP

Summer Research, 13 January, 2017

Costume design award for costume design in an animated film, Kubo and the Two Strings

What is a Hybrid series?
Imaginary Mary

http://www.hybridmedicalanimation.com/
xray body in motion animation

Summer Research, movie and game reviews, 1 January, 2017

Rogue One
Lots of CGI in this movie, of course,and because it's a prequel filmed 40 years after the original Star Wars, there are characters whose actors have aged or died.  To bring the story full-circle, they've used two techniques: CGI face-swap and recasting.

Peter Cushing CGI explained

Actor Guy Henry was hired to be the on set Moff Tarkin and imitate his voice.  He's a good match for Peter Cushing (who died in 1994).  But then ILM replaced his face with a CGI "mask".

Which doesn't blink or have dilating pupils, doesn't emote,  doesn't seem to do any physical acting at all, looks like plastic... I could go on because I hated the result.  It's like they just wanted a moving mannequin to drape the CGI face on.  If the character was that necessary to the plot, surely a PERFORMANCE was also necessary.  Peter Cushing's acting in the first movie made the world more real because a thinking person was behind all the space battles and he kept Darth Vader grounded,  

Mon Mothma's original actor, Caroline Blakiston, was recast with a look alike actress Genevieve O'Reilley in Rogue One, and it looks great.  She could have been aged up, but it's a small gripe.   I get that it's the same character and there's a performance.  They also replaced two of the Rebel pilots but this time the CGI face swap worked- I could have sworn they just recycled old footage.  The fast-paced editing definitely helped because there was no chance to enter the Uncanny Valley (that point where fake humans look super creepy).

A GREAT CGI performance was created by filming Alan Tudyk in a mocap suit as he played droid K2SO on set.  The link to the featurette talks about how the animators pulled performance bits out of the footage and gave the droid blinks and eye shifts that showed the thought process behind his words.  It created a fantastic character and I never thought he was CGI; totally fooled me.

Alan Tudyk as K2SO
creature and digital effects collaboration

Other stuff I've watched since school ended:

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Great character development with the CGI critters like the Niffler, and fabulous magic made real with Newt Scamander's suitcase.
Moana

"Shiny" crab and Maui's tiny tattoo self

Lego Dimensions games
Here's somebody's dream come true:  a video game that mixes worlds kids, parents AND grandparents are interested in.  All the fantasy worlds (or, as many as they could get the rights to) you can imagine mixing characters, set pieces, and scenarios.

The Arrival

Aliens that really look and communicate in non-human ways
Fantastic Mr. Fox

The choice to use actors speaking normally makes this a film for adults.