Thursday, June 08, 2006

Animation




Oskar Fischinger
 is featured in the latest issue of Tate ETC. Tate Modern (in London) are screening some of his work at the end of the month. Pictured below is an image of Fischinger's Wax Slicer that he invented in the 1920's to create his fascinating 'sliced-wax' animation technique. This seems to be the technique used by Peter Lord (in 1986 along with with Steven Johnson, Nick Park and the Bros QuaY..and others), in their animated filmclip for Peter Gabriel's song Sledghammer. Though it looks to be plasticine - and figurative rather than abstract. Nonetheless it presents a curious and refreshing effect. Well judging from what I've seen in Sledgehammer, I've not actually seen the Fischinger wax animations. Yet.




Fischinger's Wax Slicer

It'll be interesting to see his animation Spirals at this year's MIAF. I don't know if this one contains wax-sliced animations. I imagine the ones screening at the Tate Modern do. I'll have to nip over.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

the new Fischinger DVD has Wax Experiments and Spirals

you can get it at

www.centerforvisualmusic.org/DVD.htm

and at some museum bookstores including the Tate

2:58 am
inkwinks said...

Thankyou. That sounds particularly interesting. :)

8:47 pm

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