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Artists, Amateurs, Alternative Spaces: Experimental Cinema in Eastern Europe, 1960–1990. 50 Resources to Use Animation as a Teaching Tool - InformED. Animando by Marcos Magalhães. Bob Godfrey, Roobarb animator, dies aged 91. 22 February 2013Last updated at 11:36 ET Watch a clip of Bob Godfrey's famous cartoon Roobarb The animator of much-loved cartoons Roobarb and Henry's Cat has died aged 91, his family has confirmed. Bob Godfrey won an Oscar for his short film Great, a biography of the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but remains best known for his TV work. The British animator - whose career spanned 50 years - was also responsible for Noah and Nelly in... Skylark and the risque cartoon series Henry 9 to 5. He was awarded three Baftas and received an MBE in June 1986. Godfrey won an Oscar for his short Great in 1976 Godfrey was born in Australia, on 27 May 1921, but was educated in east London. He began his professional career as a graphic artist working in advertising, before joining the innovative Larkin Studio in the early 1950s where he made his earliest cartoons.

Kama Sutra Newsnight ran its end credits in the style of Roobarb, in tribute to Bob Godfrey "Yes, they said, here's £20,000. Кровавый Чай и красная Ниточка. Blood Tea and Red String. Greedy Hen, Morning Meeting Hallucination, 2012. Canimation. Residency Unlimited | Erin Dunn in First Look: Aboveground Animation, at New Museum, Nov 1st, 2012.

2012 News Erin Dunn in First Look: Aboveground Animation, at New Museum, Nov 1st, 2012 Part of Exhibition-Related, in New Media Artist and curator Casey Jane Ellison will present twenty short-form animations from Aboveground Animation, the online archive and roving exhibition platform she founded in 2008. The screening is staged in conjunction with First Look, the New Museum’s Digital Project series—through which a selection of animations from Aboveground Animation, exploring 3-D renderings of post-human forms, premiered in October. For this screening, Ellison will present a more expansive selection of Aboveground Animation. Made by an international group of emerging artists, the featured works take up a variety of themes and concerns, and exhibit original approaches to hand-drawn and stop animation, as well as employ new tools such as CGI.

More info: www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/first-look-aboveground-animation. ManfredMohr CubicLimit 1973 1974.

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Cgi. THE IDEA by Berthold Bartosch (1932) Early Animation. Animation History. Drawings. Stop motion. Patrick Bokanowski - L'Ange (The Angel) Brothers Quay interview. Robert Breer. Robert Breer (b. 1926) A Man And His Dog Out For Air (1957) Fuji (1974) Recreation (1956-57) Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons (1981) Trial Balloons (1982) Robert Breer: Animator by Jackie Leger Robert Breer's career as artist and animator spans 50 years and his creative explorations have made him an international figure. Breer has always been fascinated by the mechanics of film. Influences Like many of his generation, Breer's early work was influenced by the various European modern art movements of the early 20th century, ranging from the abstract forms of the Russian Constructivists and the structuralist formulas of the Bauhaus, to the nonsensible universe of the Dadaists.

When Breer returned to the United States in the late 1950s, the American avant-garde was thriving and films by Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Peter Kubelka and Maria Menken were creating a new visionary movement. In recent years, Breer continued to make one film per year. Robert Breer in UbuWeb Sound. Ward: Animation module. Instructor: Paul Ward Email: Paulgward@aol.com This is a draft version of a 12-week module within a Film and Television Studies undergraduate degree, worth 20 credits (total needed across the 3 year degree = 360). It examines specifically the relationship between animation and live action, Animation and Film Studies. The contention will be that 'animation' as an object of study is not simple and straightforward, but is a contested area, covering a range of practices.

Most weeks will therefore be structured round a set of questions. The module will not aim to 'answer' these questions definitively, but its objective is to enable students to more fully recognise that these are valid questions in the first place. Therefore, the overall objective of the module is to encourage students to think reflexively about the phenomena they study, recognise the mobility and permeability of certain boundaries. The main areas covered will be: Week One: Problems with defining animation Constructing a canon?

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Machinima. Music Video.