Milt Kahl Documentary Prep

As one of Disney's Nine Old Men, Milt Kahl is known as an animation legend.  He specialized in human and animal animation because he did what others didn't want to do.

He joined the Walt Disney Company in 1934, and started animating in Snow White.  Some of his more well known characters include Tigger from Winne the Pooh, Shere Kahn from The Jungle Book, and The Sheriff of Nottingham from Robin Hood.

  

In the 1970's, he trained Brad Bird, director of The Incredibles, and Ratatouille. Even after his death in 1987, his influence lives on in one of the most prevalent animators and animation directors of the current era.

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The artist I have chosen to make my documentary is Milt Kahl, animator for disney

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Text and Image (John Baldessari)

John Baldessari took some pictures of himself pointing at things, he then commissioned some of his friends to paint those photographs and then he put them in an exhibit.  He credits them in the picture.  
Here is a blank, plain white canvas with the words "Pure Beauty" on it.



Text and image can be as simple as 4 words or something more complex as with Banksy and the likes.  But sometimes less is more.  It helps the viewer make more assumptions about the piece.

I'm not quite sure how I personally could use Text and Image in my animations, but I'm sure I will think of something.

One part of Baldassari's work was how sarcastic the text would be on some of the pieces.  Pieces such as this one:

 I just think that I can relate to him because I'm also incredibly sarcastic, as you know by now.  I mean we're on our 3rd year together.

Kate Steciw

Kate Steciw uses hybridity with the clean, clear cut frames for her distorted looking paintings. 
such as here


I kind of think that her artwork is a kind of statement on society encouraging creativity, but then wanting to box it into a clean and organized file, you know. Creativity is good, but only to an extent.

The painting looks distorted and even disorienting because the frame is so cookie-cutter. I could use something like this effect in my artworks especially because my theme is dreams. This is VERY dream like and interesting. In my current animation that I'm working on, if I wanted it to be more dream like, I could use a texture that had this same sort of effect on the house, which is very clean looking.

I learned that hybridity can be a use of a bunch of different lines. Like how we learned about the meaning of different lines back in the film unit of Digital Media.

John Carpenter's The Thing Analysis

I recently watched John Carpenter's 1982 film The Thing based on the John W. Campbell Jr. short story 'Who Goes There?'  When watching it, I began to think about my own project for this class, and how I would like to make an animation in the sci-fi or horror sci-fi genres.  So I began to look at what techniques Carpenter applies in his film to make it so great.  First I noticed that the reaction shots, which there are a lot of in this film, are always shown with the reactor seen first, exemplifying the tension and making the viewer more on edge.  I also thought that the music also helped the mood of the movie, while minimal, it is probably one of the best scores for any movie I've seen, and I've seen a lot of movies.  But, by far, the best part of the film is, of course, Kurt Russel!  He is the man.  He makes any alright movie, and makes it awesome.  This movies starts AND ends with him drinking, but not out of some dumb cup. No, he drinks it out of the bottle, no ice, no nothing!  What could make this movie better?  Oh, I don't know, how about... Wilford Brimley!!!!! Just because he's Wilford Brimley.  Anyway, I really like this movie and I want to make things like this, either in my animations or in the CVTV specials with Evan and Zach.

Also, I storyboarded my animation to make it better:

1/11/16

These are the storyboards for my animation project. This is what I did last week and part of last.