Week Seven: Howl's Moving Castle

Is there really anything more to be said about Anime?
How about comparing the Moving Castle to the Monster House?
Or this story with 10,000 BC?
We're far enough in the semester for a good, old fashioned compare and contrast.
Have fun with this one.
Don't forget all essays posted before the next class.
Enjoy Spring break.

REMINDER

Four essays due by end of class next week.

Week Six: 10,000 BC

Well? What did you think?

Week Five: Monster House

Another syllabus switch around.

This week we watched Monster House. OK, tell me what's the big appeal of mo-cap (other than technologically) why are you driven as an artist to create something that's not "real" in order to make it look so "real" no one can tell the difference between the "real" and the computer animated/generated image? Why not just work with actual humans and be done with it already?

Week Four: Monster's Inc.

We are moving the field trip to next week so we can discuss it in class first.

So for this week we'll move onto topic re: Acting in Animation. What is the importance of this aspect of the overall animation? So often we get stuck on only those areas of our art that we are directly driven to love and we don't appreciate everything that goes into the work itself. How important is the acting in the scheme of things for you as animators? How important is it to you as a watcher? How about some examples of "good" acting and how it affects you and some examples of "bad" acting? What if the story line is great and the acting is bad? What if the acting is great and the story line suck? How important are celebrity voices in feature animations?

What has this film made you thing about?

Week Three: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

A challenging mix of live action and animation. I think no one has done this as well, before, or, since. What do you think? What's your favorite line from this film? How hard or easy was this to do technologically? Why did the film noir/hard boiled detective story make such an interesting combo film like this work so well? Or does it?

Week Two: Heavy Metal

This week's theme traditional animation and music. Imagine for a moment animation without a soundtrack. What is so captivating about Heavy Metal? It's place in time, it's soundtrack, animation, combinations of all of these factors. What do you think? Why?