Ashleigh Butterworth
Showing posts with label History of Animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History of Animation. Show all posts
Saturday, 1 May 2010
Summary!!
I really enjoyed looking at animation from a different culture!!! I would never of thought to look at Germany especially i take most of my examples from the most obvious to me America and British so it was really exciting to find a huge variety of Animation and moving image from a completely different country! I found like in many other countries that the animation differs depending on the time is was created ... as society and popular culture changes through out generations! I found some animations that used techniques i know a bit about and some that i never even thought of such as Lotte Reiniger silhouette animations (they remind me a lot of shadow puppets and i didn't know many animations that use that technique). The older animations are fairly simple i found and experiment more with colour more than image such as Oskar Fischinger's scratch films which i love!!! I love the sophisticated look and the fact that you wouldn't think of it as an animation but its so simple and effective! And the sound that accompanies it makes it so satisfying to watch...more thought has gone into it than you think!! Then later on animation developed a bit more into stop motion an example of this is 'Balance'...this reminds me a lot of Tim Burton's work as the figures used are extremely elongated, thin and slightly creepy. I am going to continue looking throughout the summer at more animations from Germany and from other countries also to broaden my knowledge to the world of Animation!!!!!!'
Friday, 12 March 2010
Animation ... Lotte Reiniger ...
Jack and the Beanstalk (1995)
Lotte Reiniger technique of using silhouettes in the foreground of the animation ... the characters and up close objects that the characters interact with are silhouettes. I think this technique is very effective but i am not too keen on it ... for some reason it slightly creeps me out i think its the fact they look like realistic people (or puppets).
Animation ... Horst Von Mollendorff ...
Verwitterte Melodie, or Weather-beaten Melody, is a 1943 animated short, made in Nazi Germany. It was written mainly by cartoonist Hans Fischerkoesen, although the sole credits often went to Horst von Möllendorff. The general outline of the plot is of a bee that finds an abandoned phonograph in a meadow. The record, however, is jazz, and the interaction of different species of bugs makes this a subtle criticism of the Nazi ideals.
The technique which was used in this Cartoon with its mirrows and the sounds were, in a technical way, much more modern than the Walt Disney Cartoons from this time.
Animation ... Christoph Lauenstein
Balance is a German animated film, released in 1989. It was directed and produced by twin brothers Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein.
The film depicts five individuals living on a small platform floating in space. Whenever one of them moves, the others must do so as well to ensure that the platform does not tip over. The group works cooperatively to maintain a "balance" until one individual pulls a box onto the platform. Since all are curious as to what the box is, the individuals try to inspect the box and their actions disrupt the balance of the platform, and those on it. All but one of the individuals is pushed or falls off the edges of the platform. In the end, the lone individual must maintain a balance with the box, which is well out of reach.
Balance won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short of 1989.
Animation ... Andreas Hykade
The Runt (2006) (This does not have the correct sound ... need to find the correct video)
At first i thought because of the drawing style of this short animation it was directed at children .. however when i watched it through i realised that the content is very very adult. It is the story of a young child who stops a 'runt' rabbit from being killed ... however he is allowed to keep it for a year then kill it himself for food. I found this animation to be very upsetting as the image of the rabbit smashing its head against a wall while the young boy is unable to kill it genuinely upset me ... i think its because we become emotionally involved with animals and even though we do eat some animals we are not involved or shown how it makes it to our plate. We have a vague understanding but we have not experienced it in person.
Animation ... Andreas Hykade
Tom & the slice of bread with strawberryjam & honey 14-26" (2008, TV series for children) .
Animation ... Frederic Back
Crac - Frederic Back (1981)
Based on a book by Ghylaine Paquin-Back
Illustrations by Frederic Back
The story of a family's rocking chair, a fixture of Quebec homes for generations, becomes the story of a changing society. As the farmer who carved it gradually ages, the rocker moves from his workshop to the parlour, then to the bedroom and the kitchen of their home, always a part of the family's activities. We watch with him as time and urbanization transform the landscape and traditional life of rural Quebec. Written by Frédéric Back's wife, Ghylaine Paquin-Back, the book is based on the filmCrac!, which won a score of awards, including an Oscar® for best animated film in 1982.
Animation ... Raimund Krumme ... Zuschauer
We looked at Raimund Krumme in class but i wanted to look more at some of his other animations. This particular piece is called Zuschauer (Spectators) 1989 i liked this because of the use of colour ... i like the contrast between background and the drawings really makes the very simple, thin and fragile lines stand out! Through out this animation squash and stretch used and also alot of ease in and ease out ... i think this is to represent the movement and portray different angles of the space the characters are in and the characters themselves.
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