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More Superhero animation today, if I have time. I saw a bunch at ACMI on Saturday afternoon. Quite an eclectic mix of animations all pertaining to the Superhero theme, including a few moody/reflective pieces. There were some lovely hand drawn animations, one was (Japanese) called Superman. This superhero was a little too filled with hana misu for my liking.




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How I need to redesign my site....tch tch. Fix is more like it.

Around the corner is the Melbourne International Animation Festival.

They are screening Nibbles by Chris Hinton, and also Steven Woloshen's latest, Snip!
Nibbles has a fabulous skeleton-dance at the end, which I no doubt raved about in one of my earlier blog entries. Cameras Take Five an animation by Woloshen, screened in the MIAF festival last year, featured heavily in my research project " Improvisation in Animation". Woloshen's work houses an honest time-based expression of the relationship between mark-making and sound. I am passionate about his work as I sense a real affinity between his work and the ideas and processes that I have worked with in many of my paintings and etchings. It'll be interesting to see his latest. On that note I'm also curious about the VJ aspect of the MIAF festival Remains to be seen.


One was reading an article on Garth Paine in Realtime (mag) the other morning whilst shoveling eggs down one's gob, and lo and behold.. "Garth Paine is also concentrating on live performance, experimenting with using a Wacom Graphics tablet as a musical interface." . MM interesting.

Sadly no Evert de Beijer, no Dumala, nor is there any Daniel Guyonnet!
Perhaps I have missed previous years screening of these animator's work?? Yes...I think We are immortal by Guyonnet was screened in 2000...sigh




Piotr Dumala
Perhaps they'll do a Paul Driessen special instead of Bill Plympton's Hair High...which has been pulled from the festival. (?)



I have seen a snippet of Priit Parn's animation Karl and Marilyn...and can't wait.

by Priit Parn


It is so nice to see animation which houses the idea in the mark (of the pencil) as well as in the whole (story,style,script,etc). 2D or not 2D by Paul Driessen is one that comes to mind. There's a certain authenticity which whispers secretly from the drawn line out to the audience/viewer. Perhaps unheard. Experienced nonetheless.

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother you should be stayin' alive, stayin' alive...

New animation extravaganza on Al MacInnes site

"Busy as a blue arsed fly"

Who's this fun little bloke?





Tomorrow. Yes..tomorrow I am to play a couple of ditties for the Tango fundraiser event. Along with the talented Mr Alfoozle

So I am up for an evening of finishing the lyrics for one of the songs which we shall play. I've had this particular song with me for a few years now ...I've just not completed it. It is a little loud and raucous...however jamming it with Al has meant that it has made a nice shift, it now has a soft moody groove..and I feel inspired by it's potential. I'm not sure how it will go tomorrow. ? Mm.

Click on this little chap to see the rat that I animated on Thursday.
(rather swiftly might I add)

Animation news
....trying to do alot in limited time. Makes for frustration. Ha..but I love it.

Comics news
...mmm. Well I missed out on a comix-folks-get-together-and-paint-big-things night, last night. Secretly..between you and me..I am still working on my Tango comic. Well, I haven't been working on it..where is the time?...where'd it go now...I saw it yesterday and then it up and left.
No. Its not about time. I have changed my mind about 'publishing' this particular idea. Though I like the idea, narrative, etc.. I'll shelve it for now.

Animator of the week: Evert de Beijer

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coconino-world

Hallo. I went to a Dutch Orange Day Animation screening at ACMI afew Saturdays ago.
Wow. One in particular absolutley thrilled me to the core..
The Characters (1986) Script, design and direction: Evert de Beijer.

"George and Belle are confronted with graphic symbols and letterforms which have come to life. These apparitions infiltrate their world, disrupt their relationship and become a strange and threatening obsession for them."

This animation was fantastic! I have since discovered that Evert de Beijer also created the animation Car Craze which I saw at last years MIAF. Such lovely sophisticated work.

Twas also very nice to see more Paul Dreissen on the big screen. Still nothing beats 2D or not 2D which I saw last year at MIAF.

Bye.