In researching animated documentaries, I re-watched an animated three minute film that I’m very familiar with; The Girl Effect: The clock is ticking. This excellent short graphic-based film uses shapes to illustrate the problems associated with women in poverty. As a teacher, I regularly used this film in lessons to illustrate problems in developing countries …
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The Big Snit
Recently in class we watched the short film The Big Snit. Whilst absolutely bizarre, I loved the animation style, originality, and niche humour of the film. I really enjoyed the line boil in the animation style, and think that it really added to the sense of bizarre, whilst also building into the drawn world that …
Lion King 2019
Over reading week I sat down to watch the new ‘live action’ version of the Lion King. I’d heard mixed reviews, however as personally blown away by what the animation team had achieved with regards to animating the characters in the films. At no point did I get a sense of ‘uncanny valley’ during the …
Wes Anderson films.
Following this weeks lectures, I have been rewatching Wes Anderson films , focusing on character positioning and colour pallets. Almost every scene in each film that I watched (Moonlight Kingdom, Fantastic Mr Fox, Isle of Dogs, and Grand Budapest Hotel) was carefully shot to ensure that characters were either centered, or followed the rule of …
Ubu Tells the Truth, 1997
I recently visited the Tate Modern, and stumbled across a short animated film, produced by William Kentridge in 1997, with the purpose of reflecting on the brutal Apartheid past of South Africa. The film itself was presumably made using cut-out and drawn animation, all using white lines on a black screen. The content was obscure, …
Timing and Exaggeration in Animation: Tex Avery
I have recently been watching clips of Tex Avery shorts in order to learn more about methods of exaggeration in 2d animation, alongside good comic timing. Many of Avery’s films focus around the character of a wolf, recycling old fairly tale stories into a ‘contemporary’ 1940s and 1950s setting. Stylistically, Betty Boop is visible in …
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British Animators: Nick Park
Nick Park is perhaps one of the most well known British animators, and is arguably a significant figure in bringing British animated feature films to an international audience. Park’s first feature film was the now well-known film ‘A Grand Day Out’. Started as a student project, Park sent some footage of his project to the …
British Animators: Joanna Quinn
Having recently spent time researching British animators, I have been watching the short films of Joanna Quinn. In ‘Girls Night Out’ Quinn’s Birmingham background is a clear influence. The urban scene is set very early on so that the audience can place the film. The working class, industrial 1980’s setting is made clear, and the …
WK 1
In this week’s aspect of the course, we studied sand animation. I had never seen an animation using such a non convention material, and it was interesting to engage with such an unusual resources. The main challenge was creating clear no obvious shapes. Our group focused on broad shapes as opposed to details, whilst this …
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