Published between 1982 and 1995
RUNNING TOWARDS CAMERA: can easily be done in as few as a dozen drawings. Use a vanishing point: and draw a few guide lines from it to establish the size of your character. Starting with the smallest let the figure grow step by step. When filming zoom into centre field over the last two or … Read more
David Jefferson looks at the late night feature film programmes presented at the Cambridge Animation Festival held September 1983. A strong bunch of films were chosen for the feature section of the Cambridge Festival. Some were familiar works such as THE PLAGUE DOGS and FRITZ THE CAT, others were brand new and not yet generally … Read more
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TWICE UPON A TIME uses an animation process called ‘LUMGE’ animation. This is a development of cut out animation using backlit coloured tissue paper. It gives the colours a bright, clean look. A special rostrum camera was developed for the film that uses a system of mirrors to combine up to five levels of images … Read more
A comment by Ken Clark Computer games are limited in their ability to produce a graphic display by the K-factor. 16K cannot be expected to generate complicated pictures in full colour. Yet, the public is being coaxed into buying and using home computers by means of a plethora of games. While this is an excellent … Read more
David Coleman tells us about Animated Black Theatre and Camera movements. Most of you have seen live-action “black theatre” puppet shows, where the stage and the puppeteers are completely dressed in black and can thus manipulate the puppets in space (without the need for strings, sticks or other obtrusive equipment) while themselves remaining “invisible”. It … Read more
In one scene from “Vulture” in which each of the three characters is filmed on a separate exposure, we see in the far distance a man in red (i.e. an element in the composition that remains on an implied “ground”) watching the vulture – on the same level to start with – spreading his wings … Read more
By Ian Whitworth. Ian Whitworth is an animator with Cosgrove Hall Productions. He begins a series about getting good movement in animated drawings. Tips that I would like to pass on are the importance of keying your action, good key poses can carry your animation if your in-betweens are a little out. Also don’t just … Read more
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Walt Disney Productions are celebrating Donald Duck’s 50th anniversary this year (1984). Chris Pearson looks at Donald’s long and eventful career. (Mickey Mouse is) so much of an institution that we’re limited in what we can do with him. If we have Mickey kicking someone in the pants, we get a million letters from mothers … Read more