© 2008 Directors Notes. 
Director Duncan Bone joins us this week to discuss his multi-discipline career and recent move into music promos with the stop frame piece Not in a Million Lovers for band The Beangrowers.
The Beangrowers: Not in a Million Lovers Materials
Production Sheet
Showlinks
duncanbone.com
The Beangrowers
Adobe After Effects
It’s not often a director gets to come up with his own type of animation, but after experimenting with the Strata-cut method Javan Ivey combined his love of working with paper and developed a technique dubbed as Stratastencil on his experimental piece My Paper Mind.
Showlinks
Javan Ivey
Indie Mogul interview
Pratt Institute
X-Acto
Strata-cut animation
Tunnel Kids
Replacement Animation
The Principles of Animation
Adobe [...]
Squint/Opera are well known for their work operating in the space between the film industry and architectural practice, realising commissions as hybrid visualisation/motion graphics pieces for their clients. Co-founder Jules Cocke joins us to discuss the company’s award winning piece for the 2006 Gardens by the Bay Master Plan Design Competition in Singapore.
Showlinks
Squint/Opera
Gardens By [...]
Stefan Nadelman made a splash back in 2002 with his stills animated documentary Terminal Bar. Since then he’s gone on to create a host of personal, collaborative, and commercial work, and joins us to discuss his first outing into music videos with Menomena’s Evil Bee promo.
Menomena: Evil Bee Materials
Animatic
Showlinks
Tourist Pictures
Sundance Film Festival
Terminal Bar
Adobe Flash
Latin Alive
Resfest
VH1
Curious [...]
Directors Boca & Ryan Uhrich describe their creative relationship as an ongoing tennis match in which each of them pushes the other to create the best work possible. Their animation Duelity presents the two main arguments for the origins of man as separate films which come together in a third split-screen piece to debate the [...]
Whilst many filmmakers fall in to the trap of creating pretty pictures for their own sake, the best artists produce films in which each frame is infused with meaning and a personal perspective unique to them. Robert Seidel is one such artist who’s experimental piece _grau, is a journey through his memories that utilises every [...]
My guest today Andrew S. Allen draws inspiration for his work from his home town of Bethel, Alaska to combine new forms of expression with unique contemporary perspectives to create unforgettable experiences. He joins me to discuss his animation Flight, an exploration of man’s attempts to master the sky despite his destructive nature.
Flight Materials
Stills
Making [...]
Experimental animation director Carl Burton graduated from the University of California with an MFA in visual art. He has created scientific visualizations at the Beckman Institute’s Imaging Technology Group and also worked in the Experimental Game Lab at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. His light microscopy piece Drift takes a documentary [...]
In partial homage to the sensation of dark imagination in the work of Tim Hope, Roman Dirge and Tim Burton, Anita Shukla’s animated short The Scent of Seth portrays beauty and charm in a twisted environment, with its take on the isolation and misery of adolescence and the desire to escape from it.
Produced over [...]
This is the first interview of the second year of the Directors Notes podcast. Yeah we’re 1!!! Just as Directors Notes has the majority of episodes ahead of us, our guest directors Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman are pretty much at the beginning of their 12 episode journey for The West Side, which in [...]