Continuing From Yesturday

Continuing from where I left off yesterday but moving on from Fantasia. I have started to really get into the idea of showing movement in animation; have just ordered Timing for Animation. Quite liked the rotoscoping that was used in Fleischer’s Betty Boop’s Snow White, I thought that it achieved a really fluid and natural movement, which I suppose it would considering it was taken from real life. Not sure what opportunities I will have to experiment with something like this, although I imagine its not hard to film something and then put it into a computer programme.

I also liked the animation in the Svankmajer piece, Jabberwocky is not one of my favourites in terms of something to watch but I think that the animation is excellent. Two of my favourites are Dimensions of a Dialogue and Picnic With Weismann (1969). In both of these I like the sinister feel as well as the way that Svankmajer anthropomorphises everyday objects and makes them believable characters. The clay work in Dimensions of a Dialogue is also really good.