Fraser Maclean Lecture Notes

CHRISTMAS LECTURE FRASER MACLEAN ANIMATOR

POD  18 DECEMBER 2018  10:00 TILL 12:0

  

• James Clark Maxwell (First Colour Photo)
• First Sensitive Photo was only responsive to dark and light
• The primary colours (Optical) Green, Red and Blue
• Through glasses/ lens of red, blue and green (1861)
• Why anybody took time to make an image? and What are they Showing?

Colour- How to distinguish specific characters?

• Characters need to be identifiable
• Blue- Sky
• Commutative colours
• Yellow- Coward
• The Hidden Persuaders- Vance Packard
• Convince something they want

“Willing suspicion of Disbelief”

• Baked beans packet- is blue as its opposite colour to the orange beans
• History- Not about people but you are a continuation of this medium
• Muted colour palette for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Marcie Noble

• Disney photograph each frame 3 times for “Technicolor”.
• Reversing out the lettering

See Panoramic-ally- why we prefer horizontal view?

• Always, where it is going to be seen
• Who will see it?
• Why will they watch it?
• Consider who the film is made for
• Materials

Important Artists and Lecture notes

• Who Framed Roger Rabbit-Made in London
• Thief and the Cobbler

Roy Naisbitt- Layout Artist

• “A good storyboard is a good layout.”
• Harold and Lillen- Love story
• Gerty the Dinosaur- Windsor Mccay
• John Fitsimmens
• “Every single drawing needs to communicate a problem/ what needs to happen.”
• Bill Frake- Blue Sky Studios- Storyboards for Ice Age
• Chris Wedge- Creator of Ice Age
• Peter Deseve, Mary Blair, Carter Goodwich- Character designers/ artists

Optical properties of camera lenses

• Eric Larson, Milt Kahl- Two old men from Disney
• Richard Willaims- “Animation Survival Guide”
• “Put everything in expressions”
• “The eyes and the hands are the most expressive parts”
• “It is a question of how much time your eye has to register something”
• Camera Obsurer- Dark room
• Edward Myridge- Moving Image

Oliver and Company

• First Disney movie with Wireframe
• Music made the money
• RKO- Disney worked with this Company to make music
• Oliver and Company- Air vent different perspective to painting- due to being 3D animated
• Setting the Scene book- by Fraser Maclean- Oliver and Company painting on the back cover
• Ownership and the control of content
• Chris Knott
• Passion Pictures- Gorillas videos

Layout artist

• Path of Action
• Character position
• Framing
• Camera diagram
• Ratatouille- Blue and red
• “Did something happen by accident or design?”
• Ralph Eggleston- Blue Bird Short
• Force people to notice things