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Sunday, October 8, 2017
Sound and Music resources
Need some audio for your animation or video? Check these out:
1) Great downloadable music of many different genres!
FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE
2) Studs Terkel Radio Archive
Thousands of radio interviews with all kinds of people!
3) Third Coast International Audio Festival
Short Docs Competition has 2-3 min audio pieces that are great for possible animation accompaniment. Check out previous years' winners...
1) Great downloadable music of many different genres!
FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE
2) Studs Terkel Radio Archive
Thousands of radio interviews with all kinds of people!
3) Third Coast International Audio Festival
Short Docs Competition has 2-3 min audio pieces that are great for possible animation accompaniment. Check out previous years' winners...
Women in Motion Graphics & Animation-a great resource!
Check out STRONG WOMEN IN MOTION (SWIM)
We are a growing group of creatives working to encourage social diversity in the motion graphics community. SWIM is facilitating this change by reaching out to a artists within this community to find out their unique perspectives, interviewing them to hear their thoughts on surviving the industry, and sharing their work with our fans.
They produce a Podcast, BLOG and have links to some really great resources such as:
We are a growing group of creatives working to encourage social diversity in the motion graphics community. SWIM is facilitating this change by reaching out to a artists within this community to find out their unique perspectives, interviewing them to hear their thoughts on surviving the industry, and sharing their work with our fans.
They produce a Podcast, BLOG and have links to some really great resources such as:
Monday, September 25, 2017
Brilliant "Bullying" animation
"Balance": brilliant stop motion animation by Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short (1989).
One of my all time favorites. Says it all without any dialog whatsoever.
All about bullying and greed. Seem familiar to some of our current political leaders?
One of my all time favorites. Says it all without any dialog whatsoever.
All about bullying and greed. Seem familiar to some of our current political leaders?
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Female animator: Meghan Lands
Nice feature on Motionographer about being female in the very male dominated field of animation:
Meghan Lands is an animator in Montreal, Canada.
from the article:
Meghan Lands is an animator in Montreal, Canada.
“In all honesty, I think being a woman in the world is inherently political, and being a woman in this industry is inherently subversive. And every day you get up and do that, you’re a champion.”
from the article:
A survival strategy
Firstly, although she admitted to being exposed to the “garden variety misogyny” and microaggressions in her daily life such as inappropriate sexist jokes and comments, she also pointed out that in real life, there is no black and white.
Often, the same people who are being misogynistic can also be kind and helpful to her. With that in mind, she’s chosen not to engage any of them in deeper conversation on equality and political correctness.
“Being a constant advocate for yourself, let alone for anything bigger than yourself is exhausting,” she said. Alluding to how difficult it is to convince someone that an issue they’re not familiar with or interested in is important, Meghan summed it like this: “If you’d wanted to know, you would have already asked.”
At the same time, Meghan admits that in her life and career, people often don’t take her seriously, something she attributes to her physical appearance.
“I’m short, I’m a woman,” she said. “I have the voice of a small child. So I am often underestimated, shall we say.”
Sunday, September 3, 2017
Animating Anthropomorphism
In 1944, Smith College experimental psychologists Fritz Heider and Marianne Simmel conducted an experiment in which they showed female undergraduate students to "write down what happened" in the movie above."
What do you see in this animation?
From Scientific American:
"Most of the thirty four subjects interpreted the shapes in the movie as animate characters. Thirty two described them as people, and two described the shapes as birds. The experimenters provide an example of a common interpretation:
A man has planned to meet a girl and the girl comes along with another man. The first man tells the second to go; the second tells the first, and he shakes his head. Then the two men have a fight, and the girl starts to go into the room to get out of the way and hesitates and finally goes in. She apparently does not want to be with the first man. The first man follows her into the room after having left the second in a rather weakened condition leaning on the wall outside the room. The girl gets worried and races from one corner to the other in the far part of the room. Man number one, after being rather silent for a while, makes several approaches at her; but she gets to the corner across from the door, just as man number two is trying to open it. He evidently got banged around and is still weak from his efforts to open the door. The girl gets out of the room in a sudden dash just as man number two gets the door open. The two chase around the outside of the room together, followed by man number one. But they finally elude him and get away. The first man goes back and tries to open his door, but he is so blinded by rage and frustration that he can not open it. So he butts it open and in a really mad dash around the room he breaks in first one wall and then another.
There were some common themes. For example, nearly every subject described the interaction between the big triangle and the small triangle as a fight. Most described the big triangle being locked in the "house." The interaction between the big triangle and the circle was usually described as a chase. And the "door" was almost always controlled by the shapes; the shapes were never moved by the door."
What do you see in this animation?
From Scientific American:
"Most of the thirty four subjects interpreted the shapes in the movie as animate characters. Thirty two described them as people, and two described the shapes as birds. The experimenters provide an example of a common interpretation:
A man has planned to meet a girl and the girl comes along with another man. The first man tells the second to go; the second tells the first, and he shakes his head. Then the two men have a fight, and the girl starts to go into the room to get out of the way and hesitates and finally goes in. She apparently does not want to be with the first man. The first man follows her into the room after having left the second in a rather weakened condition leaning on the wall outside the room. The girl gets worried and races from one corner to the other in the far part of the room. Man number one, after being rather silent for a while, makes several approaches at her; but she gets to the corner across from the door, just as man number two is trying to open it. He evidently got banged around and is still weak from his efforts to open the door. The girl gets out of the room in a sudden dash just as man number two gets the door open. The two chase around the outside of the room together, followed by man number one. But they finally elude him and get away. The first man goes back and tries to open his door, but he is so blinded by rage and frustration that he can not open it. So he butts it open and in a really mad dash around the room he breaks in first one wall and then another.
There were some common themes. For example, nearly every subject described the interaction between the big triangle and the small triangle as a fight. Most described the big triangle being locked in the "house." The interaction between the big triangle and the circle was usually described as a chase. And the "door" was almost always controlled by the shapes; the shapes were never moved by the door."
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