BSA 206 Week 17

Animation 2000s Part 1

Bob Sabiston & Richard Linklater (USA)
Bob Sabiston developed an animation program called Rotoshop
Rotoshop enables painting over the keyframes of live action footage and the program fills in the in-between frames
He created the award winning short film Snack and Drink (1999) – the film follows an autistic boy to a local super market https://vimeo.com/38360045
Sabiston teamed up with Richard Linklater in 2001 and produced the film Waking Life (Using the Rotoshop program and 30 artists) 


Richard Linklater went on to make A Scanner Darkly (2006)

Michel Gondry (France)

Notable for his innovative and creative use of nondigital animation effects, including single frame methods and pixillation
Gondry’s early music videos for his own band Oui Oui attracted the attention of the singer Bjork for whom he made the video Human Behavior (1993) which was influenced by Russian Animator Yuri Norstein’s Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)


For the Bjork video Army of Me and the Rolling Stones video Like a Rolling Stone, Gondry created early versions of the “bullet-time” effect (using a line of still cameras to capture a sequence of images from different angles of the same moment)

Gondry also created The White Stripes videos Fell in love with a Girl (lego stop-motion)and Hardest Button to Button

Chris Shepherd (UK)

Created the multi-award winning short film Dad’s Dead (2002) – Based on real stories and characters from his working-class childhood in Liverpool. The film blends and overlays live action and drawn animation https://vimeo.com/18659961

Later collaborated with surrealist cartoon artist David Shrigley on the short film Who I Am and What I Want (2005) https://vimeo.com/18665337


Chris Landreth (Canada)

Created Ryan (2004), an animated documentary about his hero, Ryan Larkin (a Candian animator who achieved fame with the Oscar-nominated Walking (1969)

Chris Landreth recorded interviews with Ryan Larkin (who was homeless, alcoholic, and begging for change on a street corner) about his fall from the limelight due to drug and alcohol addiction. 

Ryan was inspired by the renewed interest in his work that the Ryan film inspired and underwent rehabilitation and started work on a new animated film (Spare Change), but died before completing his film 

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Blog Task - Overview of short film watched today

Ryan (2004) is an animated documentary directed by Chris Landreth about Ryan Larkin, a brilliant animator in the 1960s and early 1970s. The film is an animated interpretation of an interview of Larkin by Landreth, and includes interviews with Larkin's previous partner and coworkers, as well as Landreth. The animation, which uses live footage, reveals a emaciated, alcoholic and most of his mind gone version of Ryan.