Manchester Animation Festival Context for Animated Reality
This week had the fortune to be able to visit the Manchester Animation Festival for a day and watch a variety of short animated films. Whilst all were entertaining and deserve to be celebrated, I have selected a few that i found to be a valuable resource of research and inspiration for the Animated Reality project.
1. Films in Competition: Student 2
Dr Madila (2015)- 8m 37
Director Rory Waudby-Tolley (UK), Royal College of Art
CGI, Digital 2D
- Description from MAA Brochure: “A series of conversations with a gated spiritual healer, exploring the inner mind, the fabric of the universe, an the nature of reality itself.”
- Director Rory Waudby-Tolley interviews Dr Madila, a ‘spiritual healer/adviser’ and animates some of the conversations had with him; using an identical method of gathering footage to what Kieran and I are doing
- Uses comedy create narrative that draws in audience whilst still following a documentary format; from the footage I have gathered so far most people look fondly of their childhood, along with the stories they tell being quite humorous
- Simple 2D characters to show trivial conversations and over-the-top movements and emotions, but become more complex as they touch upon deeper topics such as the meaning of the universe or the inner mind
- Comedic element of breaking the fourth wall is similar to a documentary in which interviewees reference the camera, effective and humorous
Eye for an Eye (2016)- 4m 25
Directors Steve Bache, Mahyar Goudarzi, Louise Peter (Germany)
Rotoscope
- Description from MAA Brochure: “Frederick Baer spent over a decade on death row in Indiana State prison. He is still waiting for his death penalty to be executed.”
- Directors use sound footage from a documentary “Interview with a Death Row Prisoner” to animate over, much like in Dr Madila, but due to the fact they are not the ones interviewing themselves they are confined to a strict narrative provided to them
- Kept the animation realistic and grounded with the use of rotoscoping to prevent ‘cartoonish’ movements, also give a stern and serious tone suit what is being said by Baer
2. Films in Competition: Short Shorts
Once Upon 3 Times (Il Était 3 Fois) (2015)- 3m 30
Director Julie Rembauville (France)
Digital 2D
- Description from MAA Brochure: “While they are drawing, a group of children discuss the crucial point of the creation of the first human.”
- No Interviewer to prompt answers (only the teacher is an outside voice)
- Comedic as children may not usually discuss “the crucial point of the creation of the first human” if described as that, but if posed as where babies come from it makes a lot more sense
- Unscripted feeling- perhaps recorded directly from a classroom?
- Animated characters and their actions/movements based upon the narrative that the children are providing, for example the drawings fight when the children start to bicker
This week had the fortune to be able to visit the Manchester Animation Festival for a day and watch a variety of short animated films. Whilst all were entertaining and deserve to be celebrated, I have selected a few that i found to be a valuable resource of research and inspiration for the Animated Reality project.
1. Films in Competition: Student 2
Dr Madila (2015)- 8m 37
Director Rory Waudby-Tolley (UK), Royal College of Art
CGI, Digital 2D
- Description from MAA Brochure: “A series of conversations with a gated spiritual healer, exploring the inner mind, the fabric of the universe, an the nature of reality itself.”
- Director Rory Waudby-Tolley interviews Dr Madila, a ‘spiritual healer/adviser’ and animates some of the conversations had with him; using an identical method of gathering footage to what Kieran and I are doing
- Uses comedy create narrative that draws in audience whilst still following a documentary format; from the footage I have gathered so far most people look fondly of their childhood, along with the stories they tell being quite humorous
- Simple 2D characters to show trivial conversations and over-the-top movements and emotions, but become more complex as they touch upon deeper topics such as the meaning of the universe or the inner mind
- Comedic element of breaking the fourth wall is similar to a documentary in which interviewees reference the camera, effective and humorous
Eye for an Eye (2016)- 4m 25
Directors Steve Bache, Mahyar Goudarzi, Louise Peter (Germany)
Rotoscope
- Description from MAA Brochure: “Frederick Baer spent over a decade on death row in Indiana State prison. He is still waiting for his death penalty to be executed.”
- Directors use sound footage from a documentary “Interview with a Death Row Prisoner” to animate over, much like in Dr Madila, but due to the fact they are not the ones interviewing themselves they are confined to a strict narrative provided to them
- Kept the animation realistic and grounded with the use of rotoscoping to prevent ‘cartoonish’ movements, also give a stern and serious tone suit what is being said by Baer
(source: http://www.manchesteranimationfestival.co.uk/films/eye-for-an-eye/)
2. Films in Competition: Short Shorts
Once Upon 3 Times (Il Était 3 Fois) (2015)- 3m 30
Director Julie Rembauville (France)
Digital 2D
- Description from MAA Brochure: “While they are drawing, a group of children discuss the crucial point of the creation of the first human.”
- No Interviewer to prompt answers (only the teacher is an outside voice)
- Comedic as children may not usually discuss “the crucial point of the creation of the first human” if described as that, but if posed as where babies come from it makes a lot more sense
- Unscripted feeling- perhaps recorded directly from a classroom?
- Animated characters and their actions/movements based upon the narrative that the children are providing, for example the drawings fight when the children start to bicker
(source: http://www.manchesteranimationfestival.co.uk/films/once-upon-3-times/)
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