Michael Sporn Animation – Splog

- Unfortunately, there’s been a lot of spam coming my way, and a lot of it gets to the blog. So for the moment, I’ve put all comments on moderation. Hopefully, I can change it back soon, but it’s smarter to handle things that way for now.

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– A short piece in yesterday’s NYTimes talked about Stephen Spielberg and Peter Jackson going digital to direct three “Tin Tin” animated features for Dreamworks. They’ll use the Supermarionation technique – no, I’m sorry, the “3D” Performance Capture technique (some call it animation) to craft their wizadry. Peter Jackson has already done a 20 minute test reel that all of the executives love.
I have to wonder if Andy Serkis is going to play the lead, Tin Tin.

Happy Birthday, Tin Tin – 100 years old on May 22nd.

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This coming Saturday, May 19th, NY animator JEFF SCHER will have a program of his films screened at the Millennium Film Workshop at 8PM.

Here’s a press piece about Jeff’s work and history:

Jeff Scher is a New York-based filmmaker, who defines himself not as an animator, but as a painter working in motion. He is fascinated by the human mind’s ability to create the illusion of movement from disparate images. His montages are dizzying arrays of color, light, figures and forms that flit about like unruly thoughts, tricking the
eye and revealing unexpected visual harmonies. Scher gave up his pre-med studies for film while at Bard College in the mid-1970s. He still makes use of rotoscoping, an old animation technique in which film frames are blown up and traced individually onto animation cels. In Scher’s case, he painstakingly hand paints and shoots each frame of film, sometimes substituting clay, paper models or found materials for his paintings.

Jeff was one of the final judges at last year’s Ottawa Animation Festival. Some of you may have met him there.

This Saturday’s program is the following:

LIGHTTIDE (12 min.-1974)
GARDEN OF REGRETS (8 min.-1994)
WARREN (3 min.-1995)
POSTCARDS FROM WARREN (1 min.-1995)
NERVE TONIC (3 min.-1995)
YOURS (4 min.-1997)
GRAND CENTRAL (15 min.-1999)
THE JACOBSONS (3 min.-2000)
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING (3 min.-2001)
LOST AND FOUND (3 min.-2004)
YOU WON’T REMEMBER THIS (2 min.-2005)
DOUBLE PLAYDATE (2 min.-2007)
OXYGEN (3 min.-2007)

Millennium Film Workshop Personal Cinema Program MAY 19 (Sat.) 8 pm
66 East 4th Street, NY NY 10003

Here’s a great article by Stephen Heller in EYE Magazine about Jeff.

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