Animator. Summer 1988. Issue number 23. Front cover illustration: A picture from a demonstration film made on an Antics computer. (See Cartoons, Computers and Antics.) Printed in Animator Issue 23 […]
#23 Summer 1988
The Animator’s Bookshelf
Our reviewers look at some of the recently published books by film historians. Preface to a Review by Ken Clark Animated film history is now 92 years long in the […]
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British Animated Films Review by Ken Clark Denis Gifford has spread his net wide to include not only entertainment model and cartoon films but also representative advertising shorts; instructionals, and […]
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Four of Signal Films animated model films out of a known total of twenty are included, but I am puzzled by the absence of their most celebrated production promoting Rolex […]
Mickey Mouse – The Mouse’s Tale
Mickey Mouse celebrates his sixtieth birthday on 18th November. He grants a rare interview to Brian Sibley. He stands beside the pool, looking rather taller than I had imagined and […]
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His eyes sparkle, and I know that – for a moment – he’s back there, in front of the cameras and loving every moment of it. Then he sighs. “I […]
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I mention a picture in the album showing Mickey with Dopey and Grumpy outside the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles. “Oh, that must have been ‘thirty-seven, the premiere of […]
The International Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart ‘88
The 4th International Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart ‘88 has grown into an event worthy of our full recognition. David Jefferson went along as an official guest and reports on what he […]
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By putting aside the narrow borders of general expectations the animator would have unlimited possibilities. “The conditions of free artistic work offered by the medium itself are ideal,” said Meyer […]
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Rozwuzzanie by Leszek Komorowski, Poland. Using pencil animation it depicts a woman rolling up a ball of wool. The lines of the drawing become the wool strand and are wound […]
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Zénó és a Hirek by Ferene Cakó, Hungary. A superb plasticine animation in which a man reading a newspaper assumes the characters and events from the news stories. The images […]
Bob Godfrey workshop lecture
This article is based on a workshop lecture given by Bob Godfrey at the Stuttgart Animation Festival. The session opened with a showing of a film from the Rhubarb series. […]
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We would storyboard each piece as we went along. One of the problems was the writer of the lyrics didn’t like the musician so he asked to be taken off […]
Graham Clutterbuck – a great entrepreneur
Graham Clutterbuck, founder and managing director of the FilmFair Group of companies, was responsible for bringing many popular animation series to our television screens, including Paddington, The Wombles, The Perishers, […]
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The Magic Roundabout was a great success on British television and the BBC were looking for other series in a similar style. In 1966 Monica Simms, who was then the […]
Jiri Barta and The Pied Piper
Czechoslovakian filmmaker Jiri Barta is at last finding wide recognition of his work outside his own country. Jeremy Clarke telephoned him in Prague. Jiri Barta’s feature length puppet film The […]
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JC: How interesting. I didn’t pick that up. I assumed they were drinking blood, which of course made them worse. JB: No, no, no. When it came to the banquet, […]
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JC: What made you decide on making things which were both two and three-dimensional? You mentioned cubism, which is one of the elements which comes to mind watching the film. […]
Perspective for Animators
In Part Two George Collin looks at Movement in Perspective. With the coming of pocket calculators there is a danger that children will not learn how to do anything but […]
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The key to rotating objects in perspective is the ellipse. Figure 5A shows a circle drawn on a grid. Figure 5B shows the grid drawn in perspective (turn it on […]
Cartoons, Computers and Antics
There are many myths and mis-conceptions about what computer animation can and cannot do. Alan Kitching attempts to clarify things and answer the commonest questions. “Animation” is often synonymous with […]
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There is now a huge variety of paintbox systems on the market, varying from low-cost PC systems for business graphics and slides, up to expensive high- resolution systems for full-colour […]
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They work by first creating a 3-D model of an object inside the machine. Various ways of doing this include building it up mathematically from geometric shapes like spheres, cubes […]