BSA206 Animation 2000s

Georges Schwizgebel, from Switzerland, created The man without a Shadow in 2004. The film was made using the paint on glass technique. The story follows a man who sells his shadow to the devil for wealth and a woman, only to find that people don't like him without a shadow. The film has many complex transitions by messing with techiques such as colour and prespective.
The man without a Shadow won awards at Cannes Film Festival and the Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films.

Run Wrake made Rabbit in 2005.

It is animated in the style of old kids' picture books. The story is a parable that critiques consumerism and loss of innocence.

The Black Dog's Progress was made in 2008 by Stephen Irwin. It is made up by drawings on a series of flickbooks that were later digitally animated. The flickbooks are on a constant loop so the audience can see the past and present at once. The plot tells the story of a black dog that is a stray.

Regina Pessoa made First film The Night in 1999. The film was made by engraving a plaster plate and photographing it, then slightly changing the image and photographing again. In 2005, she made Tragic Story with Happy Ending which won the Grand Prix at the 2006 Annecy Animated Film Festival.

Pedro Serrazina, the creator of the 1995 short, Tale about the Cat and the Moon, also made The Eyes of the Lighthouse in 2010.

The Eyes of the Lighthouse is made using a combination of drawn animation, painting, CGI and live action for the sea.

Modern Toss, a UK T.V series, was first aired on T.V in 2006. It is a Lo-fi adaption of Mick Bunnage and Jon Link’s surreal adult cartoons.

The Modern Toss characters first appeared on a website, then in comic books and then on t-shirts and greeting cards, before they became a T.V show.

I think that The Eyes of the Lighthouse was the film that I found the most emotionally engaging of the above films. I thought that Serrazina blended the drawn animation, painting, CGI and live action very well, and nothing looked stylistically out of place in any of the scenes. I thought that the end was very emotive, despite the fact that there was no dialogue.

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BSA126 Gump walks.

Gump Side Walk The side walk for Gump. I tried to make him seem as if he is a bit of a sloucher-almost as if he drags himself along the ground a bit. He's a bit of a lonely sad guy so I didn't want him looking too perky and happy. Gump three quarter walk I tried to do the same slouchy, sad walk for the 3/4 walk animation, his head is bowed and I hope he doesn't look too happy. Gump front walk I tried to experiment a bit more with the front walk. My initial idea for Gump would be that although he walks upright, he resorts to a four legged walk at times because he is ment to be a bit primitive in his actions and appearance. I wasn't entirely happy with how the walk turned out and it could definitely do with a few tweaks but I'm happy in the sense that his four-legged walking style gives him a bit of personality. I'm still not fully satisfied with the character design of Gump but I am getting closer to figuring out what I want and what ...

BSA126 Bird, Cat, Dog, Horse.

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BSA106 German Expressionism.

German Expressionism in film came about after WW1, after Germany lost the war. Germany wanted to revitalise the film industry and to create a better impression for the country. The German government subsidised the UFA (Universum-film AG), whose studios were the largest and best equipped in Europe. This became Germans golden age of cinema. German Expressionist film lasted from 1919 to 1933 when Adolf Hitler came into power. Unlike other Western films of that period that focused more so on creating realism, German Expressionism distorts reality to create an emotional effect. Expressionism films employed stylised set design, elaborate costuming, shadowy lighting that emphasises bold contrasts of dark and bright highlights and unnatural make-up. The settings are typically distorted and exaggerated, with key themes being madness, criminality and fracturing of identity. German Expressionism was a huge influence in developing the horror genre. They began to tell the story ...

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