I've always loved stop motion animation and find the experiments and short films you are making to be really fascinating, insightful, and charming. The fact that some of the ways you overcome some fundamental problems with stop-motion is very low-tech adds to the charm.
As an aside, one of my favorite films of all time is the spectacularly horrible Italian Star Wars rip-off "StarCrash" made in the late 1970's. What I love about the film are the low-tech effects. The ships were pulled along on rods hidden by the camera and masked out using a variation of Harryhausen's Dynamation technique, all done on the original negative. Attempts are made at doing stop-motion animation that are pretty crude but charming at the same time. Some of your techniques remind me of these low-budget, ingenious methods of creating special effects.
I've always loved stop motion animation and find the experiments and short films you are making to be really fascinating, insightful, and charming. The fact that some of the ways you overcome some fundamental problems with stop-motion is very low-tech adds to the charm.
ReplyDeleteAs an aside, one of my favorite films of all time is the spectacularly horrible Italian Star Wars rip-off "StarCrash" made in the late 1970's. What I love about the film are the low-tech effects. The ships were pulled along on rods hidden by the camera and masked out using a variation of Harryhausen's Dynamation technique, all done on the original negative. Attempts are made at doing stop-motion animation that are pretty crude but charming at the same time. Some of your techniques remind me of these low-budget, ingenious methods of creating special effects.
Thanks as always for sharing!
Pierre
In a similar vein is Will Vinton’s 1978 film, Claymation. Inspired.
ReplyDeleteHave you tried animating some of your paintings?
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