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June 26th, 2020

JUNE 27: Monthly Discord Program – Duality of Animation

TOMORROW- SATURDAY. Event starts at 4:30 PDT, Program starts at 5:30

Animation Resources is hosting monthly Discord parties on its Discord server. Join us the last Saturday of every month to participate in discussions and network with fellow artists from all over the world. The party starts at 4:30 pm (PDT) and the program begins at 5:30 pm.

Here’s info on this month’s program…

As a pursuit, animation offers a lot of options… Should you go the independent route or shoot for a studio position? Do you want to supervise or follow a creative lead? Is it better to have a personal style or be versatile enough to draw in any style? The answers may surprise you!

Join us Saturday for an informal discussion of the options that are open to you. Understanding yourself and your strengths and weaknesses are the key to finding your place in the field of animation. Animation Resources is here to help you do that.

DUALITY OF ANIMTION
SATURDAY JUNE 27th, 2020 5:30 pm (PDT)
HOSTED BY DAVEY JARELL, WITH STEPHEN WORTH

Davey Jarell is a member of the Board of Directors of Animation Resources. He is a professional storyboard artist for television and acts as our Director of Programs. Stephen Worth has been working in animation as a producer for 35 years. He is the President of Animation Resources.

ABOUT DISCORD

Discord is a free chat app that supports video, voice chat and text chat. Discord servers are divided into channels, which all have their own subject or theme of discussion. Members are assigned roles which helps everyone keep track of who’s who. The Animation Resources Discord channel is a virtual meeting place for our supporters. You can meet other Animation Resources members, talk with the people behind the scenes at our organization, and attend lectures and screenings— all without leaving your home. It’s free and open to everyone in the creative community. If you’d like more info on how Discord works, see this article: What is Discord?

Here’s how to install the Discord app and login to the Animation Resources Discord Server:

1. INSTALL DISCORD
iPhone or Android: Download the app from the App Store or Google Play Store and install.
Desktop: You can access Discord for your Mac or PC from discordapp.com. You can choose to download and install the free Discord app, or enter our channel directly using your web browser.
2. CREATE AN ACCOUNT
Just follow the prompts to create your own login account.
3. JOIN THE ANIMATION RESOURCES CHANNEL
Click the plus sign to the right of the app and select "JOIN A SERVER".
Enter this invite code: vES5YsV
4. YOU’RE THERE!
Take a moment to look around, read the rules and introduce yourself.

The Animation Resources Discord Server is open to the public right now. Pop in and look around, and make a point to visit on Saturday!

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Posted by Stephen Worth @ 12:33 pm

June 7th, 2020

Biography: Oskar Fischinger

This posting is a stub. You can contribute to this entry by providing information through the comments link at the bottom of this post. Please organize your information following the main category headers below….

Birth/Death

b. Gelnhausen, Germany 1900
d. Los Angeles, CA 1967

Occupation/Title

Animator, Filmmaker, Painter

Bio Summary

Oskar Fischinger (1900–67) was a pioneer of abstract animation and visual music. Working in Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin and Los Angeles, he has been called the Father of Visual Music and the Grandfather of Motion Graphics. Fischinger made some of the first music videos in the early 1930s, influenced John Cage’s theories of percussion, and the style of Disney’s Fantasia (1940). He has influenced generations of animators and filmmakers and continues to do so today. He first made silent black and white films in the 1920s, and a series of live cinematic performances called Raumlichtkunst (1926). His ground-breaking 1930s Studies series synchronizing animation and music screened in first-run theatres worldwide. Fischinger was involved with the invention of Gaspar Color, a three-color system which was an early rival to Technicolor. With this color system he made Kreise (1933-34), Squares, a Muratti commercial, and Composition in Blue (1935).

Fischinger made commercials in his Berlin animation studio, and his color Muratti cigarette commercial made him famous worldwide. Paramount Studios brought him to Hollywood in 1936, where he had several unsuccessful encounters with Hollywood studios (Paramount, MGM, Disney). He did find support in the 1940s for a few films from Hilla Rebay and the Guggenheim Foundation in New York, and in the early 1950s made a few animated commercials. In his later years he could not find support for his films and focused on painting, drawing and a light-play instrument, the Lumigraph. —C. Keefer, Center For Visual Music

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Related Links

Center For Visual Music: Fischinger Research Portal

Bibliographic References

Contributors To This Listing

Cindy Keefer, Archivist / Curator, Center For Visual Music

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Posted by Stephen Worth @ 3:42 pm

June 7th, 2020

RefPack034: Wonderful Things For Inspiration and Study!

LAST CALL! RefPack035 will be posted on Saturday, and all of these great downloads will go away. If you haven’t downloaded them yet, do it now! If you haven’t joined Animation Resources yet, JOIN NOW! https://animationresources.org/membership/levels/

Every other month, Animation Resources shares a new Reference Pack with its members. They consist of an e-book packed with high resolution scans and video downloads set up for still frame study. Make sure you download the Reference Packs before they’re updated. When it’s gone, it’s gone!

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This time our Reference Pack is jam packed with incredible things to study and inspire you. First of all, we are sharing a rare portfolio of caricatures by Rudolf Wilke. Even though he only lived to be 35 years old, Wilke made a lasting impact on the world of cartooning. This portfolio of cartoons, titled “Gesindel” (which translates to “Riff-Raff”) was published as a memorial to Wilke upon his death, and it represents some of his best work.

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And that is just the beginning… The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon was released in Japan in 1963. The sixth animated feature produced by Toei Animation, it was filmed in ToeiScope, an anamorphic widescreen format similar to CinemaScope. This landmark film is often cited as one of the best Japanese animated features, and I’m sure you can recognize its influence on Genddy Tartakovsky’s “Samurai Jack”. The design, color, animation and effects are marvelous to study and learn from. You won’t want to miss this.

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RefPack034 also includes a pair of cartoons illustrating the impact Tex Avery had on the business in the late 40s. The mark of a great director isn’t just the innovation in his own work; it’s the influence he has on his peers. Avery had a profound effect on every studio he worked for… and even some he didn’t! Along with these cartoons is an extensive essay to put the films in context and suggest scenes for you to still frame and study.

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Our bonus download this month is one of the most important e-books we have ever shared. The “Zim Correspondence School of Comic Art and Caricature” packs a lifetime of experience into twenty small booklets. There are no chapters or formal lessons, just common-sense advice and lots and lots of brilliant drawings. Zim teaches his students the same way he learned his trade, one step at a time. Each page is a self-contained bit of sagely advice, intended to be studied a page or two a day. As readers work their way though the course over the span of a year, the information accumulates, gradually transforming them from a talented amateur to a seasoned professional artist. No one was more qualified to teach students how to think like an artist than Eugene Zimmerman.

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At Animation Resources, our Advisory Board includes great artists and animators like Ralph Bakshi, Will Finn, J.J. Sedelmeier and Sherm Cohen. They’ve let us know the things that they use in their own self study so we can share them with you. That’s experience you just can’t find anywhere else. The most important information isn’t what you already know… It’s the information you should know about, but don’t know yet. We bring that to you every other month.

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Check out this SAMPLE REFERENCE PACK! It will give you a taste of what Animation Resources members get to download every other month!

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Animation Resources is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization dedicated to providing self study material to the worldwide animation community. If you are a creative person working in animation, cartooning or illustration, you owe it to yourself to be a member of Animation Resources.
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Posted by Stephen Worth @ 1:04 pm

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