WOAH THERE!!!!

THE SWEENEY

This amazing peice of moving image was by the great Will Sweeney I've been a fan for a long time but not as active as i'd like!

FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL

missed it! AMAZING TRAILER

THE CLANGERS

WOMBLING FREE

Wasn't keen on the wombles as a kid, but can now appreciate it's brilliance!

FOR ME?

This couldn't be more relevant to my project or myself and my interests if it tried! and it's trying hard. I gasped so loud when I found this in the library, I had to restrain my joy.

ART ATTACK!

It's all gone a bit art attack, which I LOVE

Haha It's not the same without Buchanan.
I used to love Tony Hart too.TRACY ISLAND!

BACK TO BASICS

I have been researching elements of Mise-En-Scène in order to understand and make better choices. I do not want to create something that is too dark but then in animation B i do want an element of darkness. I have looked at this book by John Gibbs and selected parts of case studies in order to help myself with different elements of Mise-En-Scene. I've done a lot work around this in the past but it's nice just to refresh my memory so I can get clearer ideas of specifics in my head rather than just going off and picking up a camera not necessarily thinking about what i'm doing...



This is an early and famous example of a piece of film which demonstrates concepts of Mise En Scene successfully and clearly to it's audiences. It's a horror film from the 1920 directed by Robert Wiene.

The demonstration of Mise En Scene is just as important in Animation. Here's an example of an animation from a similar era, which i feel encompasses a good sense of Mise En Scene...


From around 4 minutes in there's some really nice closeups of the characters and scenes of a forest or jungle. Although it's black & white and can't project colour at all, it still uses other areas of Mise En Scene to evoke empathy with the characters and a sense of their surroundings. I particularly like around 6:20 where Betty Boop dances next to the waves with the sunset in the background. It's framed really nicely and doesn't have to have much movement in the background as she takes up most of the shot with her dancing

"Is anybody lookin'!?" Awww, amazing.

STAY AWAY FROM THAT TRAPDOOR

...'Cause there's somethin' down there!

What was down the trapdoor? I can't remember. Amazing animation but it only ever last about 5 minutes. This is a whole episode!!! It's actually pretty amazing for 5 minutes long! Its such a good little story. I like the mixture between illustration & 3d stop frame in the intro. The voices too, is Burke from Dorset? haha

HOLY MOLARS!

Found this 'Gourmet Paper Mache Fishwichwich" (what?) on Youtube. He's amazing. Awful music though, "DanMonster Man". Get up to date a bit and he'd be a sensation! ha. he would, i think.

Papier-mâché

This is something I will use in my project. I have the Cave in mind for use of this style.

Emerging Thoughts Papier Mache Tutorial from Emerging Thoughts on Vimeo.

I found this really good website through Vimeo. It just has really good tutorials for all kinds of home crafts. I love anything like this. Things like that usually struggle to force their way into 'real work' and usually play more of a part in severe procrastination, but i'm pleased i've got an excuse to use some of it!

TWINKLE

Here's one of my favourite books, I feel it inadvertantly inspires the way I draw faces since it's something I ALWAYS refer too. I can definately see that my final version of Jack is a representation of this inspiration.

PLAYGROUND

I've been looking at Disney a lot for all areas of my live brief. I like the concept of Disney Land also with the big rides, costumes and scenery! It's given me ideas for how to build the sets for animations and also how to draw characters for the illustration project.

GoogiesqueThe Imaginary World

OH MANDY!

Found this through Itsnicethat. Since feeling good about my own efforts of creating the house in animation I'm doing... This made me feel a bit like I wanted to curl up and die. She's amazing, check out this wonky house... It's by Mandy Smith. She's one of these people who you just want to kill, she's done music videos, designed furniature and can create something as techinical and amazing as this. It's one thing to produce mixed media work but to do all to such a standard just winds me up. Extremely inspiring. Her website is pretty shocking though... needs a new one.

This is made from PAPER.

HANNAH-BARBARA

Hannah-Barbara Cartoons, Inc, are responsible for a lot of my old favourite cartoons from childhood, and potentially my mums too! From 1957 they've produced the Flintstones, Tom & Jerry, Scoobie Doo, Josie & The Pussycats and the Jetsons.





LOVE IT! These are what has been a big inspiration for my Illustration brief for the mental illness charity.

FLICKR #6

Here are my current flickr favourites. They're really inspiring me in the illustration and animation work i've been doing lately. It's all very twee, 1950's, disney and bright!

MR MONSTER

This is from a cake magazine from 1986, i found it on Charm & Posie on Flickr

PAPER FLOWERS

HIS NAME IS TRISTAN

And he is alive.
This is a Tiger animation created by my friend Sarah Hurst. She made this tiger model from scratch. I've met him and he's really really GRRRRRRREAT!

Tristan the Tiger from Sarah Hurst on Vimeo.

Far too good and hard to do since the tiger in my animation is about a couple of seconds long... it would be daft going to the trouble of making a move-able puppet for such a small spotlight!

DESIGN PROBLEM

Helpful.

RECORDS

Here i've been looking at all my mums old Story telling records from when she was a kid. They're brilliant. It's giving me ideas for my sound, i'd love to create something like this but that's just out of the question really. Inspiring nonetheless!

The Three Bears from lisa o'hara on Vimeo.

The Three Bears...

The Little Fiddle from lisa o'hara on Vimeo.

The Little Fiddle

Tubby The Tuba from lisa o'hara on Vimeo.

Tubby The Tuber

PINKY & PERKY from lisa o'hara on Vimeo.

Pinky & Perky - Ice Cream Man

MY BOY LOLLYPOP from lisa o'hara on Vimeo.

My Boy Lollypop

BULLFROG from lisa o'hara on Vimeo.

Bullfrog (Tubby The Tuber)

PSYCHEDELIC PACAKDERMS

This is probably one of my favorite things to watch EVER. OOoooh how i'd love to make something like this.

I think it might be a bit scary for kids though, am i right? am i righ?!

Love this tooo. Brings back lots of memories. Not as good as Dumbo though!

FANTASMAGORIE: Émile Cohl

Émile Cohl created Fantasmagorie in 1908.

"To make this film, Cohl placed each drawing on an illuminated glass plate and then traced the next drawing-with variations-on top of it until he had some 700 drawings. In 1908, chalkboard caricaturists were common vaudeville attractions and the characters in the film look as though they've been drawn on a chalkboard, but it's an illusion. By filming black lines on paper and then printing in negative Cohl makes his animations appear to be chalk drawings. "

LAUGH-O-GRAMS

RAY PATIN

"This collection of art and photos all came from the Ray Patin Studios. They produced hundreds of amazing black and white TV commericals all through the 50's and early 60's.
"Check it out here or here!

Love the sketchy style of story boarding and even final results. Maybe this is what i'll do with Animation A?

SCHMOHAWK

Here are some of my very own silhouette's...

"GO AHEAD, MAKE MY DAY!"

These are a few of my fave transformers comics, from my big brother's collection. They're from 1989-90 so Steve would have been about 7. Is there stuff like this for 7 year olds now? I dunno. I mean stuff - as good as this that you can just buy from a corner shop - because this is all neat-o!. There doesn't seem to be as much hand drawn, printed stuff like this anyway but i don't tend to look!

I've never seen a kid in a comic bookshop, ever! Honestly. Who has? In forbidden planet or wherever... it tends to be guys about of about 24 or the odd looking girls with funny hair usually. Target audiences are never clear when it comes to comic books. You can be flicking through something that looks like these Transformer comics here and then suddenly see a woman with her knockers out or something that's clearly not for kids. Comics aren't for kids anymore...




I like the guy in purple!!!


wowzaaaaaaa!




More silhouette's... or use of black! BLACK!

EAT THIS!!!!!!