Week I

Welcome! We got off to a good start, today, with Voice instructor Reggie Pindell paying a morning visit to our class to help introduce the project and to answer and ask questions from you guys.

Consider using direct animation or motion graphics techniques (paper cutout, sand, Flash, After Effects, puppets, etc.) that will allow you to complete the project with a balance of aesthetic sophistication and efficiency. You are not constrained to "pure" animation and can make use of live-action and other methods to create this piece. If you choose drawn animation as your technique, make sure to calculate the amount of time it will take to go through each step.

Here are a few links from examples of music and animation screened in class, today, as well as others, to aid you in your research this week as you scour the internet for inspiration:

• The Tender Game (Hubleys: simple, abstracted characters, animation set to jazz)

• The Erl King (Benny Zelkowicz: sand animation set to a song by Franz Schubert)

• Le Merle (Norman McLaren: paper cutout set to a traditional Quebec folksong)

• Begone Dull Care (Norman McLaren: scratch, paint on film)

• Synchromy (Norman McLaren: paint on film )

• C-note (Christopher Hinton: abstract animation set to abstract music)

• An Optical Poem (Oskar Fischinger: abstract animation set to music by Franz Liszt)

• Moving Along (Patrick Smith: drawn animation, contemporary music video)

• The Hat (Michele Cournoyer: ink, morphing imagery) 

• William Kentridge (trailer for "Anything is Possible:" animation in performance)

• Tony Oursler (vernissage: video projection breaking free of the flat screen)

• The Eye and the Ear: (Franscizka and Stefan Themerson: visual/aural experiments using animation and film) 

• The Tale of How (Blackheart Gang: After Effects and 3D, moving illustration)

Please create a reference list of links on your own blogs.

~ Chris