Sunday, November 07, 2004
Long on Short Animation
Tex Blaisdell, my teacher friend and mentor, always use to say
Never ink the splash page first, or you will never be able to get through the boring pages later!
I have never found it harder to follow this sage advice as this last week. I have mid-term grading and lesson plans and a good deal of video editing to do. But as the Nominating Chair Person of the Short Animation Annie category I`ve also got 2 big boxes filled with some of the hottest short animations of the year. And I want to go right for the splash page.
Short animation is the heart of animation. It is like the tide pools of the ocean. You can see just how healthy the industry truly is by studying the health of the short animation tide pools.
Short Animation is the place where animators learn their craft and show their souls. It is a personal medium not needing crews of thousands and MBA middle managers. And it is a type of animation that runs on obsessive love of the very process of animation itself and a whole lot of heart.
I have gone through every single enter and checked that they play. I have checked the paperwork and the labels. I have filled up my head with this year`s best from festivals, the Internet, and gaming trying to get ready for next week`s judging.
It is not going to be easy for the judges, trying to nominate the 5 best of the best. But I think that they will have the same joy in seeing that the field on animation is alive and well and living in the hearts and souls of the practitioners of animated shorts.
P.S. all images are copyright the respective owners.
Never ink the splash page first, or you will never be able to get through the boring pages later!
I have never found it harder to follow this sage advice as this last week. I have mid-term grading and lesson plans and a good deal of video editing to do. But as the Nominating Chair Person of the Short Animation Annie category I`ve also got 2 big boxes filled with some of the hottest short animations of the year. And I want to go right for the splash page.
Short animation is the heart of animation. It is like the tide pools of the ocean. You can see just how healthy the industry truly is by studying the health of the short animation tide pools.
Short Animation is the place where animators learn their craft and show their souls. It is a personal medium not needing crews of thousands and MBA middle managers. And it is a type of animation that runs on obsessive love of the very process of animation itself and a whole lot of heart.
I have gone through every single enter and checked that they play. I have checked the paperwork and the labels. I have filled up my head with this year`s best from festivals, the Internet, and gaming trying to get ready for next week`s judging.
It is not going to be easy for the judges, trying to nominate the 5 best of the best. But I think that they will have the same joy in seeing that the field on animation is alive and well and living in the hearts and souls of the practitioners of animated shorts.
P.S. all images are copyright the respective owners.
