MGFX 1 – Week 1

Some links for Week 1 Lecture:

Oskar Fischinger

• Kreise:
  http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/cIrIOrYsD2c/
• Komposition Im Blau:
  http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/kBpPBtQ48v0/
• By Hans Richter: Rhythmus 21 (1921)
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VCgeyh8Nx4&feature=related 

Norman McLaren

• Synchromy:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqz_tx1-xd4
• Lignes verticales | Lines vertical:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnbavAYULUU

Purposes of Compositing – Some Different Examples

• Documentary – Chicago 10:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9uJL7lWdFg
• House MD Opening Credits:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Df6V1CqNS0
• News Graphics:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t0PGMqhGPw
• Advertising: MK12 // Budweiser Ad:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMNtHsBBC-U
• Instructional Programming: DNN Rules:
  http://www.derbynewsnetwork.com/roller_derby_rules

Elements of Design

• Color - http://colorschemedesigner.com/
• Annabelle Lee – http://vimeo.com/2111305
• Between Bears - http://vimeo.com/13776542

Some other animation aesthetic theory:

http://www.davidoreilly.com/2009/08/basic-animation-aesthetics

Saul Bass

• http://saulbass.tv/
  
• http://37signals.com/svn/posts/917-title-sequences-from-saul-bass-the-master-of-film-title-design
• North by Northwest:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fNabF8bq_o&feature=related
• Psycho:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tek8QmKRODw&feature=related
• Anatomy of a Murder:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtRcd-BXQ8&feature=related
• It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1A7bJD3atk&feature=fvst

So….what are the elements of the animation/motion graphics sleight of hand?

‪Duck Amuck‬:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH6i2Z6mTRE