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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.
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Javan Ivey
Indie Mogul interview
Pratt Institute
X-Acto
Strata-cut animation
Tunnel Kids
Replacement Animation
The Principles of Animation
Adobe [...]
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
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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 [...]
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 [...]
My guest Jerome Olivier’s creative signature is so original a new term ‘fotomation’ had to be coined to describe his time travelling epic Missing Pages.
Missing Pages Materials
Stills
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Speaking Pictures
Dead Man’s Shoes
Rubber Johnny
My Wrongs 8245-8249 & 117
Warp Films
Federico Fellini
Fritz Lang
Akira Kurosawa
Chage & Aska
Adobe After Effects
La Jetée
After Effects [...]
Keith Bearden joins us to discuss The Raftman’s Razor, a film that redresses the distorted Hollywood view of teenagers in movies.
The Raftman’s Razor Materials
Script
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The Raftman’s Razor
Festivus Film Festival
Withoutabox
Dario Argento
Werner Herzog
Jonathan Demme
John Sayles
Russ Meyer
Cargo Cult
Gilligan’s Island
Adrian Tomine
The Wonder Years
Eerie Indiana
Joel Haskard’s Moviepie Interview
Sundance Film [...]
While some projects get turned around at blistering speeds that defy all reason, others need to slowly mature in the background, as was the case for this week’s guest director Peter Bunzel who began work on his animated, thought experimentation film Mind Games in 1996 finally completing it in 2004 once the time was right [...]
For this week’s interview I spoke to Marijn Dionys an illustrator, photographer, DJ, comic creator, designer and now stop frame animator from Belgium, about his dancing furniture four screen projection piece 4motion.
Note - The original posting of this episode resulted in the Assasinator 13 video being downloaded as the corresponding file. While we’re fans [...]
Most of the guests on Directors Notes have had to self finance and hustle to get their projects to screen, but every once in a while a directors’ passion and drive for a project manages to push through the maze of questions and checks to grab a share of the funding pot. Robin King and [...]