Punto y Raya FESTIVAL 2023 / Bret Battey’s Masterclass
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Bret Battey’s “Estuaries” series of audiovisual compositions (2016-22) and two additional installations were based in part on the exploration of unique algorithmic approaches.His OptiNelder video filter visualises mathematical optimisation processes applied to video or mathematical “terrains”. His Nodewebba software links mathematical-feedback pattern generators to help create emergent musical behaviours. Battey discusses how these tools were part of his investigation of his idea of “fluid audiovisual counterpoint” and finding fruitful intertwining of “event and object” thinking and “continuum, texture and gesture” thinking in combining music and image.
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How is Sony Pictures Animation becoming the GOAT of 3D animation? Learn how award winning movies such as The Spider-Verse, K-pop Demon Hunters, & GOAT utilize Autodesk Maya and industry workflows with keyframe animation, rigging, and more!
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The interview with Yonak Kibreab, the voice of Elio in Pixar’s summer film.
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Craig Kausen, grandson of the legendary animation filmmaker, Chuck Jones, spoke in a special guest speaker event for NYFA students and faculty. Kausen discussed the work and career of Chuck Jones, whose name is synonymous with characters from Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, and Merrie Melodies. Event was moderated by Paul Laverack.
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ROBOT DREAMS director/screenwriter/producer Pablo Berger discusses the film at the AMC Century City 15 in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 3, 2024. Video shot live on location, organized, assembled, written (via editing), & edited by TheMovieReport.com
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Q&A with Gints Zilbalodis, director of FLOW, at Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
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Director Don Hertzfeldt joins moderator Miguel Penabella (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a discussion of his films ME and It’s Such a Beautiful Day. They discuss his time as a UCSB student and his early interest in animation, as well as the development of his new film. Hertzfeldt also shares insights into his influences from silent cinema, and his thematic interests in deep time and memory across his work.
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My films are abstract in the way that I use improvisation, intuition, and experimentation as methods of development. But my films are also emotional responses to ideas, materials, images, and sounds. In that sense, even my most visually abstract films have a human presence in them'.
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This video serves as beginner’s guide to the world of Czechoslovakian animation. I discuss filmmakers such as Jiří Barta, Jan Švankmajer, Jiří Trnka, and Karel Zeman.
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Pixar has been at the forefront of 3D animation innovations for nearly 30 years, developing new methods and technologies with nearly every new project. With their newest feature film “Elemental” hitting theaters, we take a look back at the ways Disney/Pixar has evolved over time. The studio has made advancements in how characters move, going from robotic motion in 1995’s “Toy Story” to characters who can intricately play music in “Coco” and “Soul.” In the early Pixar days, human characters were hidden in the shadows, but breakthroughs in movies like “The Incredibles” and “Brave” paved the way for more believable human characters. And clothes, which were once stiff, took center stage in “Onward” thanks to innovations from movies like “Monsters Inc.”
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Pixar provides their LIVE review of Pixar’s first teaser trailer for “Inside Out 2” on November 9, 2023.
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This video serves as a beginner’s guide to the world of Hungarian animated cinema. Films discussed include Son the White Mare, Cat City, Johnny Corncob, Foam Bath, White Plastic Sky, Ruben Brandt Collector, Kidnapping of the Sun and Moon, and many more.
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This is what it was like being an animator on Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget–my personal behind-the-scenes.
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