"Spirited Away" the making of...
it tells about the main character, how she is based on a friend of the director's daughter. many characters were based on people the director knew in real life.
the strange town is also based on a real place.
the animation dept is large. each image is drawn by hand. even with the advent of digital animation. they create storyboards and have meetings to discuss them. taking real life examples and detailing every movement. they videotape how animals move in order to better animate it.
key animation is next to detereming basic motion. then in-betweens cleans it all up and fills in the gaps.
the director is getting old and is delegating more tasks.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
4/8/2008
John Canemaker "The Moon and the Son".
It is animation spliced with real footage and animation. It tells a story of a son discussing his fathers anger. But he does have happy memories. He says how his father helped him make his first movie.
The father was unhappy and miserable with himself. It tells an animated anecdote of a particular night. Arson how his father was arrested They use real newspaper clipping mixed with "crayon" animation. His father goes on trial. He is fond guilty. and sent ot Attica. Guilty of Arson.
The family was shunned from church. The mother got a job at a midnight shift working at a maternity ward. Fathr released after 5 years. An animated jail bird asks his father to explain his life...
The father tells his life story. Born in Pennslyvania family goes back to Italy, calabria. after great earthquake. only 3rd grade education, aided his grandfather, a shepard. his grandfather dies. he grows up in calabria, joins mafia. father went to jail along with his mother. returns to America in 1925, he was 18. he pushed cart for the mob... he moved upstate new york. worked as a bootlegger, got arrested. shoots a man and goes to jail again. goes back to working on rail road, meets and falls in love. he was 34, she was 36.. john born in 1943. father was drafter into the army in WWII. fought in D-Day. gets 2 purple hearts. returns home, wife and 2 kids. works a laborer in elmira new york. buys small hotel... w/ mafia loan. falls into debt, mafia burns down hotel. 5 years in prison, gets out become matience man in hospital.
son discusses the tension, father discusses how he always kept his sons fed, deep italian food. father would insult his son.
like the father, the son goes to manhattan at 18.
father returns to calabria and donates bells to church.
the animation ends like it began.
this animation was my favortie. i loved the real photos mixed with the animation. the animation began with crayon then evolved as the timeline progressed.
It is animation spliced with real footage and animation. It tells a story of a son discussing his fathers anger. But he does have happy memories. He says how his father helped him make his first movie.
The father was unhappy and miserable with himself. It tells an animated anecdote of a particular night. Arson how his father was arrested They use real newspaper clipping mixed with "crayon" animation. His father goes on trial. He is fond guilty. and sent ot Attica. Guilty of Arson.
The family was shunned from church. The mother got a job at a midnight shift working at a maternity ward. Fathr released after 5 years. An animated jail bird asks his father to explain his life...
The father tells his life story. Born in Pennslyvania family goes back to Italy, calabria. after great earthquake. only 3rd grade education, aided his grandfather, a shepard. his grandfather dies. he grows up in calabria, joins mafia. father went to jail along with his mother. returns to America in 1925, he was 18. he pushed cart for the mob... he moved upstate new york. worked as a bootlegger, got arrested. shoots a man and goes to jail again. goes back to working on rail road, meets and falls in love. he was 34, she was 36.. john born in 1943. father was drafter into the army in WWII. fought in D-Day. gets 2 purple hearts. returns home, wife and 2 kids. works a laborer in elmira new york. buys small hotel... w/ mafia loan. falls into debt, mafia burns down hotel. 5 years in prison, gets out become matience man in hospital.
son discusses the tension, father discusses how he always kept his sons fed, deep italian food. father would insult his son.
like the father, the son goes to manhattan at 18.
father returns to calabria and donates bells to church.
the animation ends like it began.
this animation was my favortie. i loved the real photos mixed with the animation. the animation began with crayon then evolved as the timeline progressed.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
April Fools!
Bill Plympton "The Fan and the Flower". open of a house, discusses a ceiling fan. it was lonesome, awww. a bird tempts it with friendship but flies away. the old lady buys a potted plant. it falls in love, showing off his blade and showed off his light beam. very sensual. the plant played hard to get. but she could not resist his big blades, so she opened her flower for him. sadly the relationship never reached a physical level. the plant shows off her flowers and he sent breezes. the old lady, became senile and forgot to water the plant. and the fan got dusty. the plant eventually dies and the fan spins uber fast. and the fan flies through the ceiling. but his death gave the plant water... the girl plant worked the poor man fan to death... typical. and the plant evidently was pregnant and had a fan flower.
i liked the animation. it was black and white with a very distinct style. it looked hand drawn and i enjoyed that. it had character. only the flower had colors. the simple colors worked amazingly well.
The second animation we viewed was Adam Phillips called "Bitey" and the story "Little Foot". bitey runs thorugh a field of grass roaring. lots of camera movement, closeup angles and pans of a water fall scene. with a moving leaf? a child bitey fall down a hill chasing the leaf thing. now i guess bitety is throwing rocks and sees a spider, fercious looking. he pokes at it with a stick. bitey the kinda unicorn hairy thing. now the little hair ball is back and hears noises. and he sees a farting bird. he sees bitey coming and he runs, but now very well. bitey jumps over over him and stops him and little hairy guy attacks him and rips his face. but big hairy guy comes to save its kid.
bitey throws grass at him and laughs. so hairy guy hurls a rock, to no avail but little hairy knocks bitey out. it ends with creepy looking things.
this animation was okay. i felt that it lacked soul or character. it was funny though, but i felt that it had nothing special. it looked amazing and very well done, clearly he has talent. but it seemed to me, to lack "soul".
i liked the animation. it was black and white with a very distinct style. it looked hand drawn and i enjoyed that. it had character. only the flower had colors. the simple colors worked amazingly well.
The second animation we viewed was Adam Phillips called "Bitey" and the story "Little Foot". bitey runs thorugh a field of grass roaring. lots of camera movement, closeup angles and pans of a water fall scene. with a moving leaf? a child bitey fall down a hill chasing the leaf thing. now i guess bitety is throwing rocks and sees a spider, fercious looking. he pokes at it with a stick. bitey the kinda unicorn hairy thing. now the little hair ball is back and hears noises. and he sees a farting bird. he sees bitey coming and he runs, but now very well. bitey jumps over over him and stops him and little hairy guy attacks him and rips his face. but big hairy guy comes to save its kid.
bitey throws grass at him and laughs. so hairy guy hurls a rock, to no avail but little hairy knocks bitey out. it ends with creepy looking things.
this animation was okay. i felt that it lacked soul or character. it was funny though, but i felt that it had nothing special. it looked amazing and very well done, clearly he has talent. but it seemed to me, to lack "soul".
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