CHRISTMAS LECTURE FRASER MACLEAN ANIMATOR
POD 18 DECEMBER 2018 10:00 TILL 12:0
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- 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
Dan Sanders Art & Animation 