Animator. Spring 1992. Issue number 29. Front cover illustration: Post Office Fence. Production company Hibbert Ralph Animation. See C.A.T.A.
#29 Spring 1992
Sheila Graber on her conversion to computer animation
From Darkness to Light or from Super 8 to Super-Nova. In 1970 I bought my first ever Movie Film Camera, a Super 8 Chinon, and was hooked by the magic […]
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My next main Mac job was to link with my North East Independent TV Station Tyne Tees Television in providing an animated title sequence and short “stings” on the theme […]
Annecy Animation Festival 1991
The Annecy Animation Festival is the most spectacular event on the European animation calendar. David Jefferson went along for Animator magazine. The biannual animation festival had outgrown its Bonlieu Centre […]
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Paul worked with Richard Purdom in London for eight years and learned a lot about animation by doing that specific kind of work. “I feel I have got to get […]
Annecy Festival 1991 – The Golden Cartoon
The films competing for the Golden Cartoon must have gained awards at one of eight European festivals. Report by David Jefferson. Films selected to compete for the Golden Cartoon must […]
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Nick finds it much harder to make a commercial than Creature Comforts because he is answerable to a client. “They always want more in thirty seconds than I believe will […]
Is there a future in short animated fiction?
A seminar held at the Annecy Animation Festival addressed the question of the future of the short animated fiction film in the light of the many political and economic changes […]
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“When you enter your film in a festival like this it is good to get the audience reaction,” continued Murakami. “The prizes are also important although some people may disagree. […]
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Clare Kitson, a programme commissioner for Channel 4 television, was also optimistic. She maintained the future of personal animated films depended on three factors; whether there is public demand; whether […]
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The students submit proposals and a panel chooses the best and most promising ideas. Each of the students spends three months in the glass fronted studio developing the project and […]
The history of the animation cel
Stained glass windows, gun cotton, incendiaries and Celluloid By Brian Clark of Film Sales Ltd. The West window of the Church of the House of Prayer, Newark, New Jersey bears […]
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At this level triacetate has shown itself to be in with more than a good chance. Film Sales’ search for an animation-copy-suitable triacetate cel concentrated on a formulation that provided […]
Flip-books – More than child’s play
Karen Rosenberg reviews the work of professional flip-book-maker Ruth Hayes. These days the flip book is generally considered kiddie fare, if it is considered at all. What’s a flip book? […]
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From the California Institute of the Arts, where she is currently studying film, Hayes told me by phone how she came to concentrate on flip books. After graduating from Harvard […]
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In her unabashed exploration of the body, Hayes stands within a tradition of women animators in the USA that began in the 1970s. Susan Pill’s film Asparagus, with its clear […]
DeluxPaint Animation
David Jefferson tries his hand at computer animation with a software package for personal computers. DeluxPaint Animation is a comprehensive animation program for personal computers. It runs in 320 x […]
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Backgrounds can be drawn and painted separately and then added to a sequence of animation once it is complete. The background can also be saved in an artwork file and […]
Computer Assisted Traditional Animation
Two events on the subject of computer graphics were held recently in London: the Time Multimedia exhibition, and Computer Graphics 1991 – a two day conference on computer animation. Report […]
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Edwin Lutz on the subject of animation believability Taken from Edwin Lutz’s book: Animated Cartoons (published in 1920) By experience the artist will learn to know where to slight – […]
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Jerry Hibbert is a director of Hibbert Ralph Animation in London. He gave a talk at Computer Graphics ‘91 entitled The Computer as a traditional animator’s tool. At Hibbert Ralph […]
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The sets were placed on a giant rotating table with the cels held vertically in front. As filming progressed the table was rotated. “It gave some great effects but was […]
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“When you do something brand new it takes a bit of research,” declared Goldberg. “You need to spend a lot of time on it and you are not going to […]