Cohn Pain tells how the film Animation My Way encouraged him to try his hand at cartoon animation. This led to his recent production about sub-standard housing. I bought my […]
Prepare to enter the realm of the imagination
The story of a mortal’s dream struggle with the gods was Paul Hanson’s choice for his first amateur animated film. Three years, 1800 cels and 50 background paintings later he […]
Prepare to enter the realm of the imagination – Page 2
Following this encouraging news I set about designing the title sequence, it was to last the length of the first part of the lyrics in the song. I wanted to […]
Prepare to enter the realm of the imagination – Page 3
The making of Dreamscape did not go without its disasters. 25 feet of film (and countless hours) were wasted when I left the camera’s built-in daylight filter in place. Another […]
Experiment with animating abstract shapes
A cel with 10,000 separately coloured segments in an area 9 ins by 7 ins, is just one of many in Red and Blue and Green. George Collin tells us […]
Experiment with animating abstract shapes – Page 2
By 1981 I had made another 5 animated films as well as contributing to club films and in my spare time I managed to get my degree, pass the professional […]
Experiment with animating abstract shapes – Page 3
One sequence involves a green holly leaf spinning against a blue sky with red berries in view. As the leaf spins each of these elements changes colour: blue leaf, red […]
The Brussels Super 8 International Film Festival 1983
LEW COOPER LOOKS AT THE ANIMATED FILMS. I have recently returned from the mind-blowing Brussels Super 8 Film Festival. When I started making my little animated movies a few years […]
The Brussels Super 8 International Film Festival 1983
I hope I have a fairly open mind about experimental work, I like to see people trying something new, but I have to say that I found 90% of the experimental films to be a complete waste of film-stock. Obviously there were good examples, I thought one of the very best films in the competition was an experimental film.
The Brussels Super 8 International Film Festival 1983
Along with all the routine pixillation, I had the pleasure of seeing the best example I’ve seen anywhere. It was called BONNE SOIREE. This Canadian film showed a man sitting down in front of his television. The camera was kept in one position. We saw the back of the man in his armchair and across the room in front of him was his television. A series of bizarre and very funny pixillated events then took place between the man and the television set – none of which he appears to notice. It used the technique to good effect, and was just the right length – stopping while we were still enjoying the film.