Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Report from on the Road:
So here I am in Florida. Nothing very animated happened on my plane trip unless you want to talk about the lady (sic) in front of me who got into a slap fight with the airhostess and had some guys in blue waiting for her when we touched down in Atlanta. I still have 3 syllabi to write while I am out here on the road. But there is no cartoon quality to that, believe me.
Before I left California I had to email the details of my pre-award research on the Corpse Bride for this year`s Ub Iwerks Award. This seems to be the year of stop motion. And I am glad that the new technology developed for the Corpse Bride is receiving this well deserved award for scientific breakthroughs in one of the oldest forms of animation
Ian Mackinnon and Pete Saunders have truly taken stop motion into the 21st century with their clockwork real world rigging for armatures that has given the whole spectrum of emotions to the latex and silicone stop motion worlds that before could only be achieved in clay.
As someone who has been following stop motion from my childhood and has been doing stop motion on and off for the last 20 years this new technology is truly astounding. Mackinnon and Saunders have been unsung for years. I am glad to say well done guys, well done. Hope to see you at the Annies. ¶ 7:27 PM
So here I am in Florida. Nothing very animated happened on my plane trip unless you want to talk about the lady (sic) in front of me who got into a slap fight with the airhostess and had some guys in blue waiting for her when we touched down in Atlanta. I still have 3 syllabi to write while I am out here on the road. But there is no cartoon quality to that, believe me.
Before I left California I had to email the details of my pre-award research on the Corpse Bride for this year`s Ub Iwerks Award. This seems to be the year of stop motion. And I am glad that the new technology developed for the Corpse Bride is receiving this well deserved award for scientific breakthroughs in one of the oldest forms of animation
Ian Mackinnon and Pete Saunders have truly taken stop motion into the 21st century with their clockwork real world rigging for armatures that has given the whole spectrum of emotions to the latex and silicone stop motion worlds that before could only be achieved in clay.
As someone who has been following stop motion from my childhood and has been doing stop motion on and off for the last 20 years this new technology is truly astounding. Mackinnon and Saunders have been unsung for years. I am glad to say well done guys, well done. Hope to see you at the Annies. ¶ 7:27 PM
