Australia celebrates 100 years of Lithuanian Animation
As part of the Melbourne International Animation Festival, phantasmagorical tales of Eastern European mythology has been brought to the screen via a series of unique animations that comprise Milestone: 100 Years of Lithuanian Animation.
January 22nd, 2014
As part of the Melbourne International Animation Festival,
phantasmagorical tales of Eastern European mythology has been brought to
the screen via a series of unique animations that comprise Milestone:
100 Years of Lithuanian Animation. As per Malcolm Turner festival
organizer, expressed his thoughts by saying, Lithuanians have a very
strong connection to their forests. Forests feature heavily in their
art, fairy tales, literature and oral history. Until quite recent times,
it was relatively common practice for old people to walk into the
forest when they decided that it was their time to die. Turner had a
wide array of selected works which would portray the Lithuanians History
but also aforementioned ingrained passion for everything to do with the
forests.
Olympics: Hollywood’s Top Animation Talent Reimagined Sochi Mascots
The Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics 2014, there was a rich spectacle in spades; but nothing quite startled the Internet such as the reveal of the three massive animatronic Sochi mascots.
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
