Monday, October 02, 2006
A Time for Timing:
So I was talking to Stephen Gwinn yesterday. Stephen is the composer on Right to Left, the ASIFA-Hollywood Comic Con Animation Jam that is currently in post.
I wanted a Carl Stalling feel for the music diring the Eric Goldberg cat and anvil animation and Stephen thought I was talking about a time period sound that didn`t go with what he was trying to do. When what I was talking about was action accents in the music.
It was the most natural thing in the world to say check out the Rudy Ising bar chart at the ASIFA Archives http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/08/media-musical-timing-rediscovered.html and Stephen got the point right away.
As fate would have it, I am coming to one of my favorite animation time periods with my Cal State Fullerton History of Animation class, the 30s. So I will be referring to the same postings tonight in my class. I will also be showing part of a Mark Kausler interview I did last year that is based on this concept.
I love the early sound cartoons that animate to the beat. Nobody is doing animation like that any more except for Mark Kausler. Maybe that is because the Ruby Ising bar chart is from Mark`s collection and he has had years to study this type of animation?
I first saw the Rudy Ising bar charts when I had Mark Kausler out to Laguna College of Art & Design to talk about animation timing. I got photos of the bar chart at that time but did not get a chance to scan them.
Now these treasures are part of the online resources at the ASIFA-Hollywood Archives where the cartoon and screen captures from the cartoon are also available to make the timing study materials complete. Thank you Mark Kausler, thank you Steve Worth, thank you ASIFA Archives.
So I was talking to Stephen Gwinn yesterday. Stephen is the composer on Right to Left, the ASIFA-Hollywood Comic Con Animation Jam that is currently in post.
I wanted a Carl Stalling feel for the music diring the Eric Goldberg cat and anvil animation and Stephen thought I was talking about a time period sound that didn`t go with what he was trying to do. When what I was talking about was action accents in the music.
It was the most natural thing in the world to say check out the Rudy Ising bar chart at the ASIFA Archives http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/08/media-musical-timing-rediscovered.html and Stephen got the point right away.
As fate would have it, I am coming to one of my favorite animation time periods with my Cal State Fullerton History of Animation class, the 30s. So I will be referring to the same postings tonight in my class. I will also be showing part of a Mark Kausler interview I did last year that is based on this concept.
I love the early sound cartoons that animate to the beat. Nobody is doing animation like that any more except for Mark Kausler. Maybe that is because the Ruby Ising bar chart is from Mark`s collection and he has had years to study this type of animation?
I first saw the Rudy Ising bar charts when I had Mark Kausler out to Laguna College of Art & Design to talk about animation timing. I got photos of the bar chart at that time but did not get a chance to scan them.
Now these treasures are part of the online resources at the ASIFA-Hollywood Archives where the cartoon and screen captures from the cartoon are also available to make the timing study materials complete. Thank you Mark Kausler, thank you Steve Worth, thank you ASIFA Archives.
