Cameraless Animations

The Experimental Animation class has been working with 16mm filmstrips to create cameraless animations, a la Len Lye, Norman McLaren, or Stan Brakhage. Using drawing, scratching, painting, hole punching, spray paint, tape, glue, and other tools, we created some wild abstract animations. Then, the footage was transferred, edited and manipulated digtially. Some examples are below, and more are on our class Vimeo page.

Dan Kelly:

Anne Petrokubi:

Thomas Swanson (the amazing soundtrack to this film was created by hand-scratching lines into the sound area of the film, McLaren-style!)

Visiting Artist Lecture: Animator J.J. Sedelmaier

The CIM Visiting Artist Series Presents:

ANIMATION GURU

J.J. Sedelmaier

Founder, Producer and Animation Director of J. J. Sedelmaier Productions

The Ambiguously Gay Duo

Beavis and Butthead

Schoolhouse Rock

Founded in 1990, JJSP has received over 700 Awards of Recognition from various film and print competitions, with screenings in over 100 festivals in 25 diff‑erent countries. The studio has worked with clients such as Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, MTV, and Cartoon Network. Come learn all about the studio behind The Ambiguously Gay Duo, Beavis and Butthead, and Schoolhouse Rock!

J. J. will be here to share his extensive knowledge of the industry, as well as his expertise in the areas of animation, comics, print art and illustration. A moderated Q and A will follow the screening.
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6pm Friday, October 28

CDM Theater, Loop Campus

14 E. Jackson, LL105

This event is FREE!  limited seating

LBJ Orders Pants

This animation from Put This On is a great example of animating to found audio.  And it's hilarious.

Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation 2011

Lilli Carré and I are planning the 2011 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation for Nov. 5 & 6. We'll be showing about 35 short animations, focusing on abstract animation and unconventional character animation. It's going to be held at the DePaul CDM Theater in 14 E. Jackson. Full details on our website.

Winter 2012 Animation Electives

In addition to the normal required courses, we're offering a number of interesting electives next quarter (click on the course name for more info):

• Anime History
• Advanced Motion Graphics - NEW
• Advanced 3D Character Animation
• Graphic Narrative (comics)
• Environment Modeling (for games)
• Advanced 3D Compositing
• Acting for Animators
• 3D Texturing and Lighting
• 3D Topics: Organic Modeling with Zbrush
• Topics: Advanced Hand-Drawn Animation

You can find the details on these and other ANI courses here.

Esthesia

Esthesia by Kyle Sullivan (Animation BA, 2010)

Malcolm Sutherland at OIAF 2011

Meghann Artes and I went to the Ottawa International Animation Festival this year, which was a valuable and inspirational event for anyone in the field of animation. One of my favorite filmmakers in attendance was Malcolm Sutherland. He had two short yet substantial films featured in a very competitive category in the same year. He mentioned that he cranks out a film in about 3-4 months. He picks up an occasional freelance job, then works like mad for a concentrated period of time on his own films. Here are the two screened at Ottawa.

Animation I: Evolving Cycle Projects

Last week in Animation I, we dove into Flash with a fun "evolving cycle" project. In this assignment, students had to make a short 3-5 second animation that repeats. With each repetition, they were to add a new animated element until they completed 5 full cycles.

Diana Moya-James created "Out at Sea," which you can watch below:

David Shastry took a non-narrative approach, instead drawing inspiration from Rudolf Arnheim's writings about symmetry and color.