Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Every Frame a Painting - great critiques of film techniques


Here's one about director, David Fincher (House of Cards), and his various rules for directing.

 

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Sunday, January 24, 2016

12 Principles of Animation

The 12 principles of animation were introduced by Disney's animators, Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas, in their book 'The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation'. Published in 1981, it is widely considered to be the best animation book of all time.
Here are some great online videos that summarize and teach these principles:

  1. Squash & stretch
  2. Anticipation
  3. Staging
  4. Straight Ahead Action & Pose to Post
  5. Follow Through & Overlapping Action
  6. Slow In & Slow Out
  7. Arcs
  8. Secondary Action
  9. Timing
  10. Exaggeration
  11. Solid Drawing
  12. Appeal

 This guy has an entire series of videos, one for each principle.



 And from TED:


Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Audio LISTS!


Studio 4D's first assignment: The Audio List
Examples can be found here:


For more experimental audio and audio storytelling check out:
UBU Web;Transom.org; ThirdCoastFestival.org; Re:Sound are great places to start.
Cowbird - "a public library of human experience," they offer "storytelling tools, designed to encourage contemplation and depth — for free, and without ads"