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
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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 .