Art Art &Daily post &Illustration 02 Feb 2007 08:10 am
Gallery
- Thanks to George Griffin for directing me to a couple of gallery shows in NYC that include animation work. They’re worth seeing for the rules they break, if nothing else. Though there are inspired moments in it. Like sitting through the recent films of Jean Luc Godard, I have a hard time staying awake, but I always walk away inspired, refreshed and excited by the thoughts on the screen.
- The Bellweather Gallery features Brent Green. This show features wildly mixed media in a number of pieces, the longest of which is “Paulina Hollers” at 12 minutes. Using everything from magic markers on glass to 3D stop-motion animation he creates films that have all to do with death.
Bellweather Gallery at 134 Tenth Avenue.
This show closes tomorrow, Feb. 3. See it right away.
These are capsule reviews in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and the Village Voice.
- The Marianne Boesky Gallery has an exhibition of work by Jacco Olivier. This show isn’t quite as impressive and far less inspiring, more like watching paintings progressing to their conclusion shot in stop-motion.
The gallery is located at 509 West 24th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues. Tues to Sat, 10am to 6pm. (212) 680-9889.
You can view some stills of the artwork at the Gallery’s site.
– For those Mary Blair fans out there, story artist and animator, Fred Cline, has posted a commercial from the 50′s that uses designs Mary Blair created for a Little Golden Book called I Can Fly.
The commercial was done at TV Graphics, Inc. in New York and was supervised by Lee Blair, Mary’s husband. The commercial is for Milk, but Cline says he has a second for ice cream.
See the spot here.
The book can still be purchased through Random House.
Hardcover $12.95, Paperback $4.95.
(I first found this info on Drawn posted by Ward Jenkins.)
If you’ve watched The Family Guy sequence which rips off the sequence from Anchors Aweigh, you owe it to yourself to go back and watch the original with Jerry the mouse. The original was animated by Ken Muse and Ray Patterson.
Both versions depended on rotoscoping. The original rotoscoped Gene Kelly’s dance to match it with Jerry; The Family Guy rotoscoped Jerry to cover him up with the same animation redone featuring their character, Stewie. More Happy Feet.
on 02 Feb 2007 at 4:03 pm 1.Saul said …
All the rotoscoping on earth won’t put “Family Guy’s” heart in the right place.
on 11 Apr 2010 at 4:23 pm 2.Steven Hartley said …
I think that the dance with Gene Kelly and Jerry Mouse is great and I think its unforgettable, and to be honest I do actually like Family Guy, I find it funny, but I thought it was a shame when they randomly spoofed it with Stewie dancing with Gene Kelly, they usually rip-off a lot of things to make money, I like some spoofs they do, but Stewie and Gene Kelly dancing, I didn’t understand why they did that.
You can also visibly see Jerry’s shadow reflection on the floor
on 13 Apr 2010 at 10:29 am 3.Steven Hartley said …
What I meant was that I didn’t the cutaway gag had nothing to do with anything