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exploring-art · 3 years ago

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Films made without a camera

Zoetrope and Praxinoscopes, Rotoscoping, Stopmotion, Additive and Subtractive Techniques

Hello! It’s been a while~

Over the weeks since my last post, we’ve come across many techniques to create film without a camera (or at least an analog camera). This’ll be a longer post but I’ll be recapping some of what I’ve learnt and what inspires me for each one!

Zoetrope and Praxinoscopes

Zoetrope, meaning “turning life” in Greek is the early type of animation machine from still images.

I think the first time I ever saw one of these was in a science museum and has ever since loved them. Though I haven’t looked into it in recent years, I’m amazed about how much they have developed over time. From how people have developed it into 3D zoetropes to even inverted and shadow zoetropes

One that really interested me was Moray McLaren’s “We Got Time”

The seemingly one take video took my breath away the first time I saw it. It felt like it was truly hypnotizing; drawing you in. I just loved the take on a modern zoetrope and the story telling ability, along with how they were able to stack up several zoetropes on top of each other, then remove it again too.

Moray McLaren - We Got Time

The other was Christine Veras “Silhouette Zoetrope”

It’s a simple yet intricate piece where the zoetrope is “inside out”. I really liked the illusion it was able to create, with the bird “disappearing” as you move the zoetrope since it is backlit.

Silhouette Zoetrope

Here is an example of a 3D zoetrope using the Catbus from Tottoro!:

Rotoscoping

I never knew that this technique was called rotoscoping. Rotoscope is when a source material is used and traced over or cut out parts of the image to create a new composite image, kind of like a traced stop motion animation. Now that I think about it, there are a lot of these on TikTok where people animate dance moves onto anime characters digitally. Below is a link TikTok compilations on Youtube:

Anime characters dancing compilation | tiktok compilation | 2021

I always wondered how they were able to do it. But now that I know, I can’t wait to try this out myself - both for this project on analog film or personally digitally. There are also several videos on how to rotoscope on Youtube that it makes me really excited to try.

Stop motion

Stop motion will always have a place in my heart as it was the first film technique I ever did with claymation and using images taken on burst mode. There’s always more for me to learn and its never ending. I normally use a simple video editor and take the images frame by frame, but we were introduced with an application which would definitely make things easier, so I might fiddle around with that next time as it helps to actually see the onion layering while taking the photos instead of post editing them to line up.

There are a lot of examples of stop motion animation that I’m interested in - from those done in big picture such as Disney works and movies like Kubo, to shows like Wallace and Gromit, and more with Soupe Opéra as an example:

Soupe Opéra 16 - Soup Opera 16

Additive and Subtractive Techniques

Last but not least is working on the film itself. There are several things that have been done to the film:

Scratching - leaving marks on the film

Adding - from pasting inanimate objects such as flora, newspaper, washi tape to painting acrylic, markers/ textas, and nail polish → anything can be added so long as it is thin enough to fit into the steenbeck/ flatbed scanner

Note: if whatever you are adding onto the film is flaky, it’s best to tape it down with clear tape (and recut the sprocket holes out again) in case it clogs up the scanner

Bleach - which warps the colours, makes the film faint or even “bleach” it out. It is quite a unique and an unknown medium that gives off surprising results

Aging - can be done in various ways → from sun, leaving in the dark, buried, and more. The only issue is that it does take time to age well

Here are some I did myself!

Working with film without a camera is quite time intensive, however all these techniques have given me insight to what I can do and more. I have several ideas now floating in my head and things I can use for my final, but won’t say anything just yet!

#experimental film

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kurosakiichigochouhonnnin · 8 years ago

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I was tagged within a post answering this meme by @mysteriousshopkeeper So I figured I'd do it. Name: Kamiyama (this is a more common reading of the kanji of my last name, so I've come to answer to it despite not being my actual family name) Gender: male Eye colour: part brown and part I-have-poor-colour-vision-and-other-people-tell-me-everything. But something + brown near pupil= hazel? Relationship status: "Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band is an apt metaphor. I'm into the "seems like a jerk but has a heart of gold." Unfortunately there are more people out there who seem like a jerk, but are actually... a bigger jerk. And of course, I'm fighting biphobia and transphobia and anti Asian racism and "you're only of colour enough to not be white. Not to be a person of colour." But the first is a big factor. Zodiac: Leo or Virgo depending on who's counting. I share month and day with real people Rick Springfield and Gene Kelly and Bleach character Komamura Saijin Favourite colour: it really depends on for what. I'm partial to yellow/orange/red/brown for home and clothing but I also prefer my dress shoes and trousers always black, avocado green home stuff feels cosy, and leisure clothes sometimes on me blue or green looks good. I don't really have one. Favourite season: I live in SoCal. Thanks to global warming, summers here are hotter than they are in inland Ciudad de Mexico. And I'm 103 kg. I'm gonna have to say winter. Favourite place: again, I don't really have one. If you asked me ten years ago, I'd say Chinatown, Oakland. But thanks to gentrification, now there is all just American corporate branches with Google Translate signs and restaurants that lie about their food being gluten free and aim for a customer base of rich white hipsters. I'd also like to go back to the site of The Disaster Onsen Trip of '88 (a family vacation to Oosaka that could have been a comedy of errors) but that wasn't a favourite place in '88. My apartment, I guess? Favourite holiday: If with loved ones, New Year's Eve and Day, celebrated Japanese family style. If not, Christmas because everyone's celebrating and holidays with people I care about. Favourite video game: Oh, God. I'm awful at digital tech. I honestly miss arcades. But I keep a copy of Tekken around and I used to try to get my character to eat everything in Zorg. To the point that most of the responses the game gave to me were "you can see no such object." What's your honest opinion about your muse?: I honestly don't know why more people aren't writing 2017 Ichigo taking real world action. He's all about that! He might not do the kind of planning I am, but come on! Would you date your muse?: honestly I see a lot of myself in him. My type is actually the Jerk With A Heart of Gold, as I said above. Ichigo is the "trust me I'm a jerk, you can tell by my grumpy face, this is why I'm a sucker for little kids!" This is why I like the idea of literary foil Grimmjow actually being like that and not as blood thirsty and not wanting to die by the sword once no longer enslaved by the British empire--I mean Aizen. I mean, come on, being an enslaved soldier is going to change the way you interact with people! I don't see anyone except Barragan, Ulquiora and Noitora being jerks before Aizen. (I HC that Aaroniero wasn't enhanced but a chimera created by Aizen and didn't exist at all before him) What are your favourite kind of threads?: Oh, comfortable but don't make me look like anymore of an unmade bed than I would in a suit (and I can do that) Just kidding! Story-rich, long running. Mostly plotted, but leaves some room for spontaneous turns in plot. I have two verses and right now I only play with one person, though there is someone else who wants to play and is just incredibly busy. I love our Ichigo, Grimmjow, and Urahara save the world from the current American regime thread that is going with @mysteriousshopkeeper I'm not great at writing action (I don't think I'd be remotely intact if I didn't know how to fight, I just get tangled around words describing it. Even in Japanese, but moreso in not-Japanese. I also have a hard no-ero rule because a good number of minors follow me and the idea of posting it while old enough to be their dad grosses me out. I would like more rpers. Male-mun-Grimmjow for ship sure, but also all the other people who make up Ichigo's world. I'm not sure how much is the transient nature of this particular fandom and how much is "how dare that queer Asian guy demand to be treated as a whole person and not a toy!" I know it's not age--I know most of the people rping are in their 20s and don't mind someone over 30. But I would like to flesh more out and not have to submit to nasty stuff to do it. Are you a selective role player?: see above. Being any part East Asian alone means I have to be for my health. Then the queer part as well. I'm also an adult with a career and all, so I really do need understanding that I can only be on and respond a couple hours out of a couple days a week. Do you have a favourite muse?: this one. I feel like our inability to stay silent in the face of injustice and also "I'm a big softie"ness as well as family mindedness are really similar. What made you decide to join the fandom?: I actually saw Bleach first in '07 when my then boyfriend and I went to a now-long-gone store in Berkeley, CA and the owner had accidentally bought fansubs and wanted to unload them for 23$ so his books wouldn't be too unbalanced. Our computer (the home computer was starting to fade, but neither of us were sixteen and cutting edge) was a bit too old to get along with much in the way of downloaded video, so we got it so we could put it on the TV. I stayed to the Japanese side of the fandom, doing humorous fanart until my carpal tunnel got too bad to draw. Then I lurked around the English side, but his because western fandom for Asian works is actually one of the most hostile places toward East Asians. Then I'm also a queer man, so I'm pushed out by straight women who take out their homophobic fetishes on fictional characters until a actual queer person shows up. Then I got sick of hiding and here I am. I've met a few actual good people. Most of the six are fic writers and not rpers, but @mysteriousshopkeeper is a great rp partner and I look forward to @likeanoldersxster Having some time to start our threads. Do you see yourself staying with the fandom for a long time?: yeah. As long as the fandom doesn't die. Then I will be sad and fandomless. That does actually happen the longer it's been since a series ended. Though there are still your once-in-a-blue-moon M*A*S*H bloggers out there. The content possibilities do wane, but there's always someone out there. I picture myself being one of them. Tagged by: indirectly by @mysteriousshopkeeper Tagging: @likeanoldersxster

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andrewmawby · 5 years ago

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thegregorybruce · 5 years ago