BSA 124 Stop motion

we are all done for the shooting of the stop motion film of the Blowb and his high jinks  at all of 1214  ish shots taken again i am still on sound and Cayleb is on the task of editing this was quiets a time based challenge for all of there was a point for about a week where i was fully unable to attend which i was unfortunately unable to control but Cayleb and i have finally finished the whole shoot and editing Vaughn was kind enough to allow all of the class an extension for the hand in and we managed to just hand in alil late at a ridiculous 4 GB we have no clue what has happened about that but never mind it is done and i look forward to watching every bodies on the 8th


Dear Vaughn Thank you very much for having me in your classes and all you wisdom and understanding i look forward to working with you again it really has been a blast
Kind Regards
Theo


             

BSA 124 Stop motion

the other day Cayleb and i completed most of the stage for our stop motion now all we need is to create character bits and bobs and we will be away laughing ....hopefully


i found during experiments that it is easy to over cook the clay based stuff we are using for the mouths and eyes DO NOT bake at 200 for 10 mins about 120-150 for 10 mins should do however i am yet to test this but it seems like it would be sufficient.

BSA 106 22.9.16

The wall Pink Floyd
By Allen Parker and Gerald Stark including Roger Waters whom rote the screen play fro the wall.
My review of the wall, it is about a rock star and his decent into madness as he quietly comes undone the film was made in 1982 and is part animation and live action the animation was rather effective with the story telling and  i feel the film itself is a very wide mix of meanings  for example how we are being controlled as well as the themes of war and abandonment the children of war felt


The Wall as a subject to me personally i feel the wall is the society on earth and how from a young age we are being controlled and forced to conform into a brick for the ever growing wall of society and consumerism and capitalism ....as well as for those who do not conform they are shunned and belittled until they lose the mind they once had then they are thrown away into an asylum so the rest of the world doesn't have to deal with the non conformity of these individuals who usually become artists of which during this time are again labeled mad or nutty  for the fact that they see the world in a different way however this is not the way for the time.

Still in this day and age we have a "Standard" to live according to The New Zealand (Dream).    

BSA 106 Remake or Reboot?

Lion King 1995 they remade the Lion King shortly after the Simbas pride or Lion King 2, to go along with the Thrird movie Known as Hakunamatata or Lion King 3, the Lion King remade or HD revamped for Blu Ray they added about 5 new sing along some versions even allowed subtitles.
I watched the Lion King a Heap(after i got past the death Mufasa) as well as extended play time ....the only reason i feel it wasn't the best i have boiled down to the reason was because i remember the film very well and it was a master piece and still is its just that they added a couple unnecessary songs i didnt like as an adult.



The Remake of the Lord of the rings (the first one) the original that i am aware of is the 1978 animated when i saw this film i was very young and couldn't keep up at this point because i was soo young but yeah the remade version of the Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson) well done.




Revamp to happen Jaws series it would be alot of fun from a working type of idea  

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Animation 1980 - 1985.

Canada
—Gerald Potterton
—Created Heavy Metal (1981) an adaption of cult adult comic book of the same name.
—Film is composed of many psychedelic, sci-fi fantasy stories about sex, violence and rock n roll.
—Animation was divided between many different studios and directors.
A lot of rotoscoping human characters was used.
—Nelvana Studio
—Created Rock & Rule (1983)
—Similar style to Heavy Metal (1981)
—Featured a post apocalyptic world where mutant animals have taken over.
France
—Paul Grimault
—Formed a small animation company with Andre Sarrut and created many short animations.
—Started making a film in 1948 with the title The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep.
—Sarrut screened an unfinished version of the film in 1952 and Grimault fell out with Sarrut and production was halted.
—Grimault won the rights to the film in 1967 and the film was finished in 1980 (32 years after production first started) and renamed the film The King and the Mocking Bird.
UK
—Dianne Jackson
—Created The Snowman (1982)
—Nominated for 1983 Academy Award for best animated short film.
—One of the most successful British family orientated animations, later to be superseded by Aardman Animations.
—Cosgrove Hall Productions
—The Wind in the Willows (1983)
—Worldwide success of the stop-motion film led to a 52 episode TV series and a second film A Tale of Two Toads (1989).
UK / USA
—John Halas
—Created the short Dilemma (1981)
—Following the limitations of his previous experiment with CG used in Autoban (1979), Dilemma claims to be the first fully digitized CG film.
—Autoban (1979) and Tron (1982) also made this claim though it is unclear how much is actually cel animation made to look like CG.
Canada / Germany
—Frederic Back
—German by birth, his films are an examination of Canadian culture.
—Created Crac! (1981) A story of the life of a rocking chair.
—Early example of of the pastel shaded look that become popular in the 80’s.
Czech Republic
—Jan Svankmajer
—Created Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)
—A film about the how humans communicate and how this can go wrong.
—Also created Alice (1988)
—Mixture of live action and stop-motion.
Canada
—Richard Condie
—Created The Big Snit (1985)
—Simple drawings, wobbly lines, and a refusal to take anything seriously.
UK
—Gerald Scarfe
—Created 15 minutes of animation for Pink Floyds film The Wall (1982)
—Film is about a mental breakdown of a rock star called Pink (based on former Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett who suffered a drug fuelled breakdown)
—Film explores the feelings of isolation and alienation.
—Animated sequences were inspired by Gerald’s childhood memories of the Germans bombing England during World War II
UK / Canada
Steve Baron directed Money for Nothing (1985) by Dire Straits (one of the first computer animated videos and a landmark in CGI) Animation was done by Ian Pearson and Gavin Blair
—Steve Baron also directed A-ha’s Take On Me (1985)
—Video was animated by Michael Patterson, who makes the singer of the band come alive from a comic book using rotoscoping technique.

BSA 106

In your own experience, has there been a sequel that is worse than the original film?

scary movie they were all a little unique (lack of a better word)

In your own experience, has there been a sequel that is better than the original film?

Alien franchise these films i enjoyed more than i can explain i also am a major fan of the Xenomorph/ Aliens. 

Provide name, year and Director of films above.

Directed by Riddley Scott 1979 the second was directed by James Cameron 1986 but these films did not die there more films were made with my favorite species.As for the scary movie films made by Keenan Ivory Wayans i dislike these films however i cannot depict absolutely why bad taste i guess.

Consider what made the film better / worse? Was there a different Director or actors? Was the story stronger / weaker / the same?

for the films alien and aliens i enjoyed all the content the Alien/Xenomorph are an outstanding creation built on mostly an existing insect rumored to be the Aphid wasp which also impregnates live hosts. 

For the Alien films its i truly think from a creative stand point they are and outstanding species to be feared.

Then, research and provide a summary of the influence of MTV on film making

How they can tell a story in a short time. as well adding the popular music to aid in the sale of the films this also allowed the film makers to cut and jump faster as the younger generations are faster at picking up and processing information thus the film makers used these new ish techniques for the films they were developing.

BSA 106 1980s film history

Hollywood Blockbuster

1980s introduced “High Concept” films¡Easily categorized characters

Familiar plots that could be described briefly

 High on stylish and slick production qualities

Aimed for broad mass appeal

Film / soundtrack / video / television / fast food promotional

Prototypes from the 1970s were Jaws, Star Wars, Alien.

Creators

Producer Don Simpson, with partner Jerry Bruckheimer, are credited with the creation of the High Concept films.

Teenage Comedy

Many films were aimed at pre-teen / teenaged 

Like porkey and revenge of the nerds.

John Hughes

Made teen orientated “coming of age” films

including the films:sixteen candles and the breakfast club.

Sequels Everywhere

Before 1980s there were very few sequels

Many sequels were made which were usually the same story.

Horror

John Carpenters highly successful Halloween (1978) caused a revival of horror films in the 1980s.

Action Sequels

include the Terminator and rambo as well as rocky e t c.

Spoof films

spinal tap and airplane and Naked gun.

Animation

such as who framed Roger rabbit  and 1982z tron

Science Fiction Film

The thing and robo cop for example

Drama

like FIELD of dreams and coccon.

War Films.

like full metal jacket and Gallipoli.

Dance Films 

Dirty dancing, footloose and flash dance.

Adventure.

like the never ending story and the Labyrinth.

Howard The Duck 

Marvel comic strip character appearing in 1977

Disney threatens to sue Marvel over the resemblance of Howard the duck to Donald Duck.

Marvel made changes to Howard by giving him pants.

1986 Howard the Duck film was made by Universal and directed by Willard Huyck and produced by George Lucas.

Regarded as one of the worst and least successful big-budget films ever made.

BATMAN 1989.

Directed by Tim Burton

While the Superman Films initiated the trend towards superheroes on the big screen, it’s 3 sequels in the 80s remained campy-comical like the 1966 Batman film.¡Burtons Batman (1989) opened the door for the current super-hero movie boom. The film was notable for the dramatic shift in tone that aligned more with the comic book character.

Film was a huge success – made 411 million in 1989 and the merchandise (t-shirts, toys, soundtrack album, plus other tie-ins) made 750 million.

Film budget was approx. 35 million.

Satiemania by Zdenko Gasparovich 1978 BSA 106

My Review of this film is strictly confusing i did enjoy some of it however this film made no sense to me what so ever but i think on a creative stand point it was rather alluring grabbed my attention and had several things going on all at once which was very interesting hard to keep up with but for the time it was made this film could still have some kind of meaning to it however this meaning is not there Surreal at its best i guess watch it one day all the way through i think you may suffer from similar confusion.

BSA 106 Movies that blew my mind Early and recent

All of the below movies or films and or animations all have various reasons as to why they have affected me...which will follow



The Mask 1994 as well as Ace Ventura they both blew my mind just by the share joy i used to get and probably still would today

closely followed by 1994 The Terminator judgement day the very first time i ever saw a Android or machine human crossover. this was a real buzz for me when i first saw it especially the T -1000





in 1999 the Matrix was released and that probably would be one of the core reasons why i chose animation as a major






In the most recent of all that cooked me real good was the concept of Sword Art Online alongside many i can not remember at this point Sorry guys

BSA 106 Movies that blew my mind Early and recent

All of the below movies or films and or animations all have various reasons as to why they have affected me...which will follow



The Mask 1994 as well as Ace Ventura they both blew my mind just by the share joy i used to get and probably still would today

closely followed by 1994 The Terminator judgement day the very first time i ever saw a Android or machine human crossover. this was a real buzz for me when i first saw it especially the T -1000





in 1999 the Matrix was released and that probably would be one of the core reasons why i chose animation as a major






In the most recent of all that cooked me real good was the concept of Sword Art Online alongside many i can not remember at this point Sorry guys

BSA 106 film and animation of 1976 - 1980

USA / Canada

Caroline Leaf created The Street (1976)First started out making sand animations and moved on to create paint on glass animations

Belgium

Eddie Lateste & PeyoIn 1958 the cartoonist Peyo created Les Schtroumpfs (TheSmurfs) which first appeared as comic strips in a Belgian magazine,

10 black and white animated Smurf shorts were made for Belgian TV in the 1960’sIn 1976 a feature length colour movie was released called The Smurfs and the Magic flute which was directed by Lasteste and Peyo. 

Hanna-Barbera made an animated TV series of the smurfs in 1981 and due to it’s popularity, The Smurfs and the Magic Flute was released in the USA in 1983

Italy

Bruno Bozzetto

Created Allegro Non Troppo 1976

Focuses on different aspects of life using mythology and science fiction themes and set to pieces of classical music

Uses a mixture of live action and animation

UK

Martin Rosen

Made Watership Down 1978

Story based on the dark and violent book by Richard Adams which depicts the cruelty of man and nature

Marketed as a family friendly film but is not  considered a cute children’s story

Roger Mainwood

Halas & Batchler was one of the first studios to use CG, as early as 1969.

The short Autobahn 1979 was directed by Roger Mainwood who used a computer at London’s Imperial College but the primitive images it produced were little used in the film

The computer style images in the film were mostly produced by traditional animation techniques

Australia / Poland

Yoram Gross

Made Dot and the Kangaroo 1977

Used the technique of laying animated characters over photographic backgrounds

Sold well internationally and seven sequels were produced

Croatia

Zdenko Gasparovic

Worked for Zagreb Film and directed A Dog’s Life in 1966, worked for Hanna-Barbera in the USA and returned to Croatia and worked on the TV series Professor Balthazar.

Made Satiemania 1978

Russia

Yuri Norstein

Created what is described as the Citizen Cane of animation, Tale of tales 1979, a follow up the short film Little Hedgehog in the Fog 1975

Story consists of fragmented, interlinked stories with the intention of being like the human memory

Uses multiple techniques, mainly cutouts with multiplane backgrounds and foregrounds

BSA 106 uplifting film experiences

in the early times of my life 1995s ish when lion king came out it had too have been when Rafiki busted out on the hyena in the form of a martial arts based butt kicking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThtwcZYI7Mw it was the first time i had seen action as a genre

When matilda gets the trunchbull back for all the suffering she has caused the students 1996 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMW57A4qHUI  Telekinesis in the making with a touch of vengeance

also in more recently i found the watching Christobella off the silent hill movie of 2006 after all her trouble hocus pocus witch burning and self-righteous preaching of what she thinks the lords will is ....she gets torn apart by the abused and "tormented" girl who she had burnt over coals and half burnt to death vengeance of this tortured girl rips her apart with barbed wire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wEBpwWja_s   during the movie she was a yuck and burnt a young girl for not having a father and named her a witch and Alyssa returns to seek her payment in flesh.


Never  turn an innocent Dark...

And for the last of all the movies i have seen the uplifting

2016 DeadPool The movie Made me laugh finally an attack on super hero movies.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xithigfg7dA

BSA 106 the change in the 70s

In the 70s there was a dramatic change in the industry where all the corporations took hold of the film industry.

thus creating a vacc like effect where the corps could move in and made the focus of film production on the turn over instead of the effect of the film on the public.



originality and the feeling is a key factor in the success of film or animation in the times of 2000s.

BSA 124 Stopmotion continues

last week i was very close to burning out i came in  to work on the animatic anyway and managed to survive the few hours and complete my plan thankfully we are still stuck on the ending though which will probably be done during the construction stage of our epic adventure of a blob based character who is trying to find himself in the world and goes into a cosmetic place to acquire the look or color he or she is after this blob of ours is eventually very frustrated by the end of the challenge. During the animatic phase i was doing sound thankfully SIT has a large selection of effects and noise for such a task of which i even found scooby doo in one folder Thank you SIT =}    

BSA 124 The Blowb continued

Well we have put done the storyboard and working on the animatic for the class and composed stand in sound at this time so we know exactly what is going on ... as for the ending we are still stuck on that purely because we can go many places i think in the end we may just make it up as the actual work begins to unfold


some of the sounds i have done myself which for a  time was challenging as we ll as trying to figure out how to copy and paste on toonboom how ever with trail and error plus many  a undo i cracked it which  made life a whole heap more simple instead of continual import this was so much better it was copy and paste but the location was defined by where the red time swash or swab was located on the timeline/thumbnail.

BSA 106 Comedy from the past and the present.

These are a few of the films i found rather tickled my funny bone:

one of the  most early films i enjoyed as a child would have to be Ace Ventura and or The Mask both of which Star "The over actor" Jim Carry.



more recent ones would have to be Jay and silent bob Strikes Back right next to the first anchorman starring Will ferrel and other great actors plus Bruce almighty


as well as rush hour starring Jackie chan along with Shanghi noon and knights

And the first Jack ass but what was more funnyer than that was the sudden influx of copycats.

And 21 + 22 jump street

And most recent would be the Big Lez Show done in paint but contains adult notions
https://www.youtube.com/user/guitarfingerz2112



Bonus round - A mini review on the documentary of the change of film and animation


This was very enlightening unfortunately it would appear that to make a real impact on the world now days when it comes to making a film or animation you must not just adhere to the normal of the industry sometimes you just have to get it done however my specialty will probably be immersion compared to contemporary film or animation
 

BSA 106 films of Sadness recent and older

I remember The films that made me sad either loudly or quietly

Starting with ;

at a young age when flubber first came out and the Death of Weebo was damaged beyond repair.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws8IjKpYcgQ&list=PLqpIhEJeX98TiYBC5T7ouCP2T7-ZLZwKy&index=10

  

The Bridge Terrabithia The death of the only friend the main character had in  his life 

The death of Chris rocks Character in the longest yard.

And the death of Mufasa in the Lion King  1

BSA 106 1970-1975

USA

Lillian Schwartz

An artist and pioneer in computer animation.

A Christmas Carol (1971)

Made by Richard Williams (Animators Survival Kit)

Made for T.V film and was later released in movie theaters

Won 1972 Academy Award for best animated short film

This caused controversy and led to the Academy changing it’s rules, deeming that T.V movies could not be considered for the Oscars.

France

Serge Danot

Made the pilot for the TV series The Magic Roundabout.

500 episodes of the stop-motion series were made between 1963 – 1970

In 1970 a feature film was released called Dougal and the Blue Cat.

France / Czech Republic

Rene Laloux

Made The Fantastic Planet 1973

Based on the novel Oms en Serie by Stefan Wul

About a society where humans have been taken to another planet to be pets

Film alludes to social concerns of fascist repression and war as well as alternative culture and Eastern mysticism.

France / Poland

Piotr Kamler

Made The Step 1974

Experimental abstract stop motion film.

Japan 

Renzo & Sayoko Kinoshita

Made Made in Japan in 1972 – Animation about the Japanese culture putting the economy before anything else.

Also made made what is considered to be one of the most harrowing and disturbing animated shorts, Pica-don 1978

An animated depiction of the bombing of Hiroshima.

Hayao Miyazaki & Isao Takahata

Created TV series Heidi 1974, an adaption of the children’s book

Both men went on to form Studio Ghibli to produce their own feature films (including Spirited Away & Howl’s Moving Castle)

Norway

Ivo Caprino

Perfected a technique of manipulating characters in real time (an early version animatronics)

Later switched to stop motion and created The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix 1975

Film took 3 and a half years to make and was huge in Norway, creating box office records that still stand

Was shown daily in some theaters for 28 years

HUngary

William Feigenbaum & Jozsef Gemes

Made children,s film Hugo the Hippo 1975 that became a cult favourite with adults

The first international release of a feature length animated film from Hungary

 UK

Bob Godfrey

Made Karma Sutra Rides Again 1971 during the early 1970’s craze for adult animation

About a middle aged couples behind closed doors hobby – Sex and it’s many possibilities

Godfrey believed animation should concern the surreal and fantastic, rather than imitate realism

Was given an X certificate and screened along side Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in the UK

Nominated for an Oscar for best animated short 

BSA 124

Cayleb and i have teamed up for the Assignment in BSA 124 and we plan to create a flubber LIKE blob with self image issues we join him as he tries to change how he feels about himself and launches into a mission to discover himself as he travels back and forth from his local cosmetic shop he begins to experiment with the over the counter things as he does this he goes through color by color and eventually comes to a full on rainbow and we watch closely as he experiences all the ups and downs of changing ones self image and his success when he gets to the end.

BSA 124

Today Chris took us back through the camera steps and usage terms  and we also got to play with the stop motion software Dragonframe and Vaughn gave us a mini task in our select groups to create a small movie just so we understood the software we are going to be using for the assignment which is the best for stop motion purely for the onion skinning this tool in dragonframe was beyond helpful to us due to the fact that our worm thing was beginning to fall apart because of all the touching and manipulating of the plaster stuff however this was a great experience only the first time i have used dragonframe where was this tool 10 years ago.

here is a look at the Worm Mr Vaukins and I made for the task at hand .

BSA 106 First Emotional encounter

  1996 when i first saw a zombie on resident evil kill and eat the main character the directors cut play station

at this time i was about 6 years old and that scene in the game still sits with me to this day.




more recently was resident evil 2 in the year 1999 ish i thought i had survived the last game i merely saw at the age of 6 at this time i was about 9 and there was one scene where i thought i was safe in this hall way which the undead could get there arms through  the gaps in the window and i  literally lept to my feet with my controller in my hand both, resident evils have had an influence on me and now i have an odd hate for the undead. Alongside Parasite eve 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1rsujJ2CjA

early in my life i had an unusual fear of girls because of Species



at the age of about 11 ish maybe later the grudge made me laugh as all the people in the room could not watch the creepy scene


in the year 2010 i watched a movie that made me uncomfortable Splice due to inter species  relations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pIeSYhipUs

BSA 106

The Beginning 

During the Golden Age of Hollywood (1930 – 1960), most film directors worked for one of the major studios

French film critics noticed some American Directors made films that were their own personal visions and were “auteurs” (authors of their own films). Examples being Alfred Hitchcock and Orsen Welles

The first American New Wave started outside of Hollywood by independent film makers in New York

Little Fugitive (1953) By Ray Ashley, Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin

Film was an influence on the French New Wave with Francois Truffaut stating - “Our New Wave would never have come into being if it hadn’t been for the young American Morris Engel, who showed us the way to independent production with this fine movie.”

New York New Wave

Lionel Rogosin made On the Bowery (1956) – Neorealist view of New York that has a mixture of documentary and scripted footage - 

Robert Frank made Pull My Daisy (1959) -

John Cassavetes made Shadows (1959) – Contains improvised dialogue and a narrative with interracial romance -

Shirley Clarke made The Connection (1961) – A mixture of cinema verite and French New Wave. Her films depict drug addicts, sex workers and different races mixing together 

  

    New Hollywood

A new generation of young filmmakers emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s

Studios lost the right to own their own theatres (Paramount Antitrust case 1948) and they struggled to sell films to independent exhibitors and were losing their audience and money. Also competing with television.

In 1966, British films found success in America with examples being

Alfie  

Georgy Girl 

 Blow Up 

The success of these films showed that American audiences were open to films with more explicit content and different narrative structures.

Jack Valenti was made the new head of the MPAA in 1966 and the outdated production code that restricted film content was updated. This allowed new freedoms for filmmakers to make anti-authoritarian films which appealed to younger audiences.

Bonnie and Clyde1965

In 1963 Robert Benton and David Newman (writers for a New York magazine) wrote a script for Bonnie and Clyde (based on the American criminals who during the Great Depression, robbed and killed people) and managed to get the script to French New Wave Director Francois Truffaut. Truffaut was to direct the film but pulled out to shoot Farenheit 451(1966)  . He passed on the project to Jean-Luc Godard who also pulled out in favour of shooting Alphaville (1965)

Eventually, actor Warren Beatty read the script and decided to produce it and hired Arthur Penn to direct. The film was funded by Warner Brothers.

Jack Warner disliked the rough cut and gave the film a limited release. The film also received bad reviews.

The film however was well received in England. Beatty managed to get Warner Brothers to re-release the film and it became a success and was nominated for Academy Awards. Notable for it’s depiction of sex and violence

The Graduate (1967)

Director Mike Nichols won Oscar and film received multiple nominations

Soundtrack consists of songs by Simon & Garfunkel

Introduced the world to Dustin Hoffman

Benjamin Braddock (Hoffman) has just finished college and is unsure of what to do with his future, when he becomes sexually involved with a friend of his parents… Mrs Robinson

Fritz the Cat (1971)

Far from the traditional child-targeted animated films

Ralph Bakshi believed that with all the changes in society and the new social power and economic freedom of the young people, it was time to take adult animation seriously.

Taking the comic strip character created by Robert Crumb, he made what became the first X-rated American cartoon.

Fritz lives an alternative lifestyle among students in New York who experiment with free love, drugs and rock n roll