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Perihelion By Nick Cross
Canadian filmmaker Nick Cross (Yellow Cake, The Pig Farmer) took a break from production on his one-man feature Black Sunrise to make the animated short Perihelion. Cross describes Perihelion as “a sort of animated tone poem…that toes the line between narrative and non-narrative, essentially having no real beginning, middle or end.”
The film draws upon his appreciation of fine art, particularly German Expressionism and Surrealism: Visually, I was heavily inspired by the work of a number of German painters from the early 20th century. Notably: Otto Dix, Richard Oelze, Ingrid Griebel-Zietlow, Rudolf Schlichter and Max Ernst, as well as Francisco Goya. This is sort of a tribute to the work of these artists living in a time of Fascism and impending war, which really informed their work in a distinct way. Fans of those classic artists will enjoy spotting the visual references.
The Art of Creative Coding
Programming plays a huge role in the world that surrounds us, and though its uses are often purely functional, there is a growing community of artists who use the language of code as their medium. Their work includes everything from computer generated art to elaborate interactive installations, all with the goal of expanding our sense of what is possible with digital tools.
To simplify the coding process, several platforms and libraries have been assembled to allow coders to cut through the nitty-gritty of programming and focus on the creative aspects of the project. These platforms all share a strong open source philosophy that encourages growth and experimentation, creating a rich community of artists that share their strategies and work with unprecedented openness.
How Color Vision Works, Vintage Film From 1938
In 1938, The Handy (Jam) Organization produced Color Harmony: a fantastic animated explanation of how color vision works, how other animals use their eyes, and how the human eye functions to see colors both separately and in combination.
The irony, of course, is that on the timeline of film innovation, color didn’t permeate Hollywood until the 1950s — mainstream film technology in 1938 was confined to black-and-white, so all the live footage is devoid of color, complemented instead by hand-drawn color animation.
“We are able to see mixtures of two-color rays as one color. We don’t need green light in order to see green, and we don’t need orange light to make us see orange. Mixtures of blue and yellow light and yellow and red light will create green and orange for us. To make the eyes see all color, then, only the three primaries — red, yellow, and blue — need be used. From these primaries, a complete color circle can be created. That is why it is possible to reproduce the brilliant colors of nature, faithfully, with just three primary colors in modern color reproducing processes.”
Lukas Vojir’s Life On Mars
From the talented hand of Lukas Vojir comes this retro-propaganda 30-second short. The Czech designer wrote, directed, designed, modelled and animated his interstitial in the style of a retrofuturistic newsreel, and everything about it — from the color palette to the ebullient voiceover — is just spot on.
The 3D modeling techniques add a nice, unobtrusive contemporary touch. The geodesic Martian landscape, the uplit terraforming infrastructure, and rapidly assembling prefab apartment buildings blend perfectly with the short’s aesthetic. Great stuff.
Film Before Film
Optical toys, shadow shows, ‘magic lanterns’ and visual tricks have existed for thousands of years. Many inventors, scientists, and manufacturers have observed the visual phenomenon that a series of individual still pictures set into motion created the illusion of movement — a concept termed persistence of vision.
Film Before Film is an exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the “prehistory” of cinema.
Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which led to the birth of film, covering shadow plays, peep shows, flip books, flicks, magic lanterns, lithopanes, panoramic, scrolls, colorful forms of early animation, and numerous other historical artiffices.
Working with these formats, early “producers” created melodramas, comedies, — as well as lots of pornography – anticipating most of the forms known today.
Nekes probes these colorful toys and inventions in a rich and rewarding optical experience.
Film Before Film is a bewildering assault of exotic (and sometimes erotic) images and illusions.
Danilo Innocenti’s GIFs
Max Capacity: Net Necromancer
Glitch video/GIF artist Max Capacity work pushes the grainy VHS cut-ups and early home computer bit constraints of 1980s cyberpunk into the digital realm. Network Awesome and Radosaur Productions interviewed him for Tumblr’s Storyboard effort. “Max Capacity: Net Necromancer”
We love the work of artist Max Capacity. I will venture here to say that his animated GIFs are postmodern, combining in them glitch art, pixel art, movies and stuff I cannot even start to describe. The fact that he uses the name Max Capacity is probably not a coincidence as he has a lot of work to show up for. I can spend hours jumping from his Flickr site to his Tumblr site to his YouTube channel checking out his universe of prolific creation. You have to visit Max Capacity’s sites.
The Effect of Color
Color is one of the fundamental elements of our existence, and defines our world in such deep ways that its effects are nearly imperceptible.
It intersects the worlds of art, psychology, culture, and more, creating meaning and influencing behavior every step of the way. Most fascinating are the choices we make, both subconsciously and consciously, to use color to impact each other and reflect our internal states.
Whether in the micro-sense with the choice of an article of clothing, or the macro-sense where cultures on the whole embrace color trends at the scale of decades, color is a signifier of our motives and deepest feelings.
Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium
GIFs are one of the oldest image formats used on the web. The GIF graphics file format was invented by CompuServe in 1987. Throughout their history, they have served a huge variety of purposes, from functional to entertainment. Now, 25 years after the first GIF was created, they are experiencing an explosion of interest and innovation that is pushing them into the terrain of art.
Please watch the following episode of Off Book, featuring interviews of Christopher Price Editorial Director at Tumblr, Patrick Davidson from MemeFactory, a group that gives presentations about internet memes, Pamela Reed and Mathew Rader from REED + RADER, mostly dedicated to fashion photography and Visual Graphics Artist Kevin Burg with photographer Jamie Beck creators of Cinemagraph.
We love animated GIFs here at ‘The Remains’ and we constantly see amazing examples of creative and inspiring GIFs in sites like Tumblr where they are specially popular, but we particularly like the work of artist Max Capacity. I will venture here to say that his animated GIFs are postmodern, combining in them glitch art, pixel art, movies and stuff I cannot even start to describe. The fact that he uses the name Max Capacity is probably not a coincidence as he has a lot of work to show up for. I can spend hours jumping from his Flickr site to his Tumblr site to his YouTube channel checking out his universe of prolific creation. Watch some samples of his work below:
Ok, lastly we want to leave you with one last video from PBS Off Book. A 25th Anniversary GIF short Mashup set to 8-bit Dubstep.