Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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Animation History Tresure Hunt

1. The studio that produced the two short animated films featured today was Warner Brothers (WB).

2. Chuck Jones was the producer for both films.

3. The first film, The Case of the Missing Hare was made in 1942 and the second film, The Aristo-cat was made in 1943.

4. The famous studio, or studio's, that Chuck Jones tried to immitate in his early years was from the Walter Lantz studio and Ub Iwerks Studio.

5. In Ub Iwerks studio he Jones worked on washing cels and then moved on to be an assistant animator at the Walter Lantz studio.

6. Jones' work was lavishly and very "over the top" animated. In the 1950's, Jones teamed up with Micheal Maltese and began working on, Rabbit Fire, a short that totally changed Daffy Duck's personality. They decided to make him completly different. Instead of the wacky, comic relief character he was previously, they transformed Daffy into a vain, ego-mainiac, prima donna wanting to steal the spotlight from Bugs Bunny. Jones used humour in a new and fantastic way and "learned how to be funny," from the american film, The Dover Boys.

7. "Feed the Kitty," made in 1952 was the short that was paid homage to in Monsters Inc.

8. And yes, Feed the Kitty is one of Franks favorite cartoons.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Library Orientation

1. Shaun Tan had many articles available on him in the SBIT also with two books, "The bird king," and "The arrival," available.

2. The 'journal' related to the animation industry available on the second level is called the "Animation Magazine." The articles themsevles are very interesting and insitefull, with lots of information on new and up and coming animation films and shorts.

3. On level four there is a help information desk that can help you with any questions you may have on Copyright in Australia as well as on the library computers home page there is a link to Teacher Resorces that leads you to more detailed information on Copyright laws in Australia.

4. On level three there is shelved, available to anyone, copies of Two of Disney's, "nine old men," a book called, "The illusion of life".

5.Richard Williams wrote the Animators Survival Kit, available on level 3. Also there is a DVD series on that very book going into further detail on the various aniamtion techniques that he uses.

6. In 2009 Frank went to Paris to study animation going to the school called Gobelines. In the SBIT library there is a 2 disk DVD selection on Paris: Chambre de Commerce et d'industrie de Paris, made in 2009.

7. Miyazaki made many films and the one available to borrow in the SBIT library are; Spirited Away, Howls Moving Castle, Ghibili the Miyazaki Temple, Castle in the Sky, Valley of the Wind and Kiki's Delivery Service.

8. The Library Orientation was very helpfull. I was helped to understand everything the library has to offer and will most cirtainly be using my knowledge of it in the future.