Contextual influences in Art and Design:
Animators, contemporary and historical.
Research a variety of the following animators and their films. Explore their style; who influenced them; what medium they used - stop motion, cutouts and mixed media.
Wallace and Gromit - The Wrong Trousers.
The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 short animated film directed by Nick Park, which features the characters Wallace and Gromit. |
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Corpse Bride - Tim Burton
Tim Burton on animation; There is an energy with stop-motion that you can’t even describe. It’s got to do with giving things life, and I guess that’s why I wanted to get into animation originally. To give life to something that doesn’t have it is cool, and even more so in three dimensions, because, at least for me, it feels even more real. With the large Marge thing or the dinosaur – any time we could throw in some stop-motion, the better. We could have had a lot more if they’d let us. |
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The Regret of the Grim Reaper - Elizabeth Hobbs
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The Skeleton Dance (Walt Disney, 1929)
The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 Silly Symphonies animated short subject produced and directed by Walt Disney. In the film, four human skeletons dance and make music around a spooky graveyard - a modern example of medieval European "danse macabre" imagery. The cartoon was created in black and white on standard 1.33:1 35mm film. |
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Nightmare before Christmas - Henry Selick
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