April 2011
11 posts
March 2011
22 posts
WEEK 3 THEORY: AUSTRALIAN ANIMATION (2001-2010)
Sejong Park
Sejong Park is a Korean-Australian animator known for his 3D animation. His most well known work is the short film Birthday Boy, which he wrote and directed while still attending the Australian Film Television and Radio School. The short is set in 1951 during the Korean War and follows an 8 year old boy named Manuk. It is Manuk’s birthday and it shows the boy playing by himself in...
Trailer for The Mysterious Geographic Explorations... →
WEEK 3 THEORY: AUSTRALIAN ANIMATION (2001-2010)
The last post on Adam Elliot was friggen long so I think I might make my next ones short and sweet.
Anthony Lucas
Righto well Anthony is another modern day Australian Animator. The main work he is known for is called “The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello”. It is a 3-D animated short film, which was released in 2005. The film has defiantly attracted a lot of attention for its...
WEEK 3 THEORY: AUSTRALIAN ANIMATION (2001-2010)
Adam Elliot
Adam Elliot is an award winning Australian animator. He is based in Melbourne where he is the owner of an independent stop-animation studio called Adam Elliot Pictures. He has been making animated film since the mid 1990’s and has now received an Oscar for the short film Harvie Krumpet, which was narrated by Geoffrey Rush. His latest film Mary and Max is Adam Elliot’s first feature...
The Paradise Institute →
This Is a installation by two Canadian Artists called Janet Cardiff and George Burges Miller. This Video installation entitled the paradise institute is I believe an excellent example of Cinema in art, or at least a feeling of cinema. What I find most intriguing about it is the sound design, which makes you feel as if you are sitting next to other people in the cinema. Listening to the small...
MUST SPAM... TUMBLR.... WALL... MOREAAARRRGGGHHHH
Blinky Bill Intro.... Epic →
week 2 THEORY: AUSTRALIAN ANIMATION 1901-2000
YORAM GROSS
Yoram Gross another CRAZY animator was born in Poland 1926. In 1950 he moved to Israel before migrating to Australia with his wife in the sixties. In Sydney Yoram and his wife Sandra established Yoram Gross Film Studios, can you dig it.
The Gross studio made ground breaking animations durning the 1970’s and 80’s with films like “Dot and the Kangaroo(1977)”,...
Eric Porter Aeroplane Jelly Advertisement →
WEEK 2 THEORY: AUSTRALIAN ANIMATION 1901-2000
ERIC PORTER
Eric Porter, an Australian animator is most well known for his work in advertising during the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. He formed Eric Porter studios, which has produced a series of notable advertising animations. His most famous being the Aeroplane Jelly commercials. His character Bertie along with the theme song made the product a house hold name. Even for me growing...
Harry Julius The War Zoo →
WEEK 2 THEORY: AUSTRALIAN ANIMATION 1901-2000
HARRY JULIUS
Harry Julius was Australia’s first animator, best known for his cartoons and carucatures as well as being a printmaker, illustrator, commercial artist, publisher and company director. He was born in Sydney on the 15th of November 1885. Along with Ure Smith, Harry Julius formed one of Australia’s first advertising companies known as Smith & Julius. Smith & Julius...
WEEK 1 OH Magic! I get it now
Ollo!
So the magic lantern is the great great great great grandpappy of the modern image projector we good people use today! It first came about in the 17th century and is designed around a concave mirror, which reflects and directs light through a lens onto a wall. A slide is placed in front of the light source and the slide image is enlarged and projected onto the wall BAM just like magic.
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