Unit 4

1. Unit 4 Thanyaporn Sriskulpinyo

2. My project will investigate the technique of combining film and animation by using After Effects

3. Research area I got an inspiration to make a film which will combine animation and film together using After Effects. My first inspiration came from an animation film of Alberto Cerriteno. It is an Opening credits of the film name “Rock Mari” which wake up the building to life by putting cartoon characters on the building facade and animate them. As now I living in Cambridge, the city which full of beautiful Gothic architectures. The city it self also inspire me do the combination of architecture in Cambridge and animation, similar with the opening credits film of Rock Mari. I will also experience with the technique of camera angle and the technique of camera hold as I always control the camera through computer( because I doing animation), now I realize that there are lots of things to learn more on using camera and find a nice places and nice angles to shoot. I also need to learn more about the technique that used to attach two video clip together in After Effects. There is a new thing which I already learn is how to create 3D object using After Effects. Usually, to create a 3D object I need to use special program computer like MaYa or 3D Max but I just learn that I can also create a simple 3D shape and animate it in After Effects as well.

4. Alberto Cerriteño • Alberto Cerriteño is a Mexican illustrator & designer who has lived in America; Portland for nearly four years now. Strongly inspired by urban vinyl toys, alternative cartoons, and the pop surrealism movement, Alberto Cerriteño has developed his own very personal technique and style, having always present a delicate hints of traditional Mexican artistic influences in his management of rich textures and decorative patterns. These contrast strikingly with the blending of desaturated colors and ink, sometimes featuring a vintage coffee finish.Alberto Cerriteño illustrations have been recognized by progressive art institutions such as Juxtapoz, Create, Drawn!, The Little Chimp Society, Computer Arts, Communication Arts and IDN among others. He has also been invited to participate in collaborative art projects all around the world and diverse solo and groupal gallery shows.

5. With more than ten years of experience as Art Director in several agencies doing advertising, print, interactive, installations and educational work. Now is working as independent artist to collaborate with talented people with quirky and creative ideas focusing in anything where he can apply his illustrative creations.

6. Here are the example animation films of his work Rock Marí | Opening Credits • http://vimeo.com/10797008 That's How A Pumkin Grows • http://vimeo.com/6796138 Suicycle • http://vimeo.com/3399421 Austin TV / Shiva • http://vimeo.com/1556032

7. FrizFreleng FrizFreleng was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros.He introduced and developed several of the studio’s biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam and Speedy Gonzales. Freleng is the senior director at Warners’ Termite Terrace studio. He directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio, and is also the most honored of the Warner directors, having won four Academy Awards.Freleng was born in Kansas City, Missouri, where he began his career in animation at United Film Ad Service.

8. Greg Mottola Greg Mottola is an American filmmaker, screenwriter and television director. Mottola wrote and directed the 1996 independent film The Day trippers, then concentrated for several years on directing in television for series such as Undeclared and Arrested Development. More recently, he has directed the feature films Superbad, Adventureland, and Paul. Mottola grew up in Dix Hills, New York, in a Catholic family of Irish-Italian. He received his BFA in art from Carnegie Mellon University and MFA in film from Columbia University.His most recently released film, Paul, is about two comic book nerds who find an alien named Paul while they are on trip in the US.

9. Michel Gondry Michel Gondry is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, whose works include being a commercial director, music video director, and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scene.Gondry was born in Versailles, France. He is the grandson of inventor Constant Martin. He has a teenage son named Paul, who is also an artist.Gondry’s vision and career began with his emphasis on emotion, according to Gondry himself in an interview for The Film That Changed My Life by journalist Robert K. Elder. Much of his inspiration, he says, came from the film Le voyage en ballon.He begin his career as a filmmaker, creating music videos for the French rock band OuiOui. The style of his videos for OuiOui caught the attention of music artist Björk, who asked him to direct the video for her song “Human Behaviour”. Gondry has also created numerous television commercials. He discover the “bullet time” technique later adapted in The Matrix, in a 1998 commercial for Smirnoff vodka.

10. Tony Oursler Tony Oursler is known for his fractured-narrative handmade video tapes including The Loner, 1980 and EVOL 1984. These works involve sound tracks, painted sets, stop-action animation and special effects created by the artist. The early video have been exhibited in alternative spaces and museums, they are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix. His early installation works are immersive dark-room environments with video, sound, and language mixed with colorful constructed sculptural elements. In these projects, Oursler experimented with methods of removing the moving image from the video monitor using reflections in water, mirrors, glass and other devices. For example, “L-7, L-5″, exhibited at the Kitchen NYC 1983, used the translucent quality of video reflected on broken glass.

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