Something to Cro-w-w-w-w! about.
May. 20th, 2012 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogRoad Trip weekend continued, with both of us again out the door at a way early hour, to get to RIT in time for the screening of Emily's animation project. She'd told us 10:30, but things were a little spontaneous in the timing department and we wound up slipping in the door moments after 10 and just in time to see hers screened.
The programme gives you a flavor for the general ambience of the place:
Two guys acted as hosts-slash-bots, and while they did no MSTizing during the films, they told jokes, played with props and ran filler videos in between them to keep the movie train more or less careening dangerously down the track at a just slightly faster than safe pace.
As for the films themselves: WOWsers. When we visited two springs ago, the animation school gave us a DVD of that year's senior project films, which we marveled at in terms of their creativity, technical expertise and utter fearlessness. Today's group- a few senior-thesis projects, but most, like Em's, just underclass projects from a 10 or 20 week course- were just as creative, well cast (in the live action cases) and drawn/CGI'd (in the larger number of animated ones), technically proficient and just as willing to stretch the bounds of what short films and animations are allegedly supposed to be. After each screening, the creator(s), sometimes with their producer or DP, came up for questions or comments, and all got good reviews, but constructive criticism, as well.
I'm told that Emily's will be on Vimeo soon, so I'll let it speak for itself when I can link to it. Of the others, our favorites included two from near the end of the morning: "Clean-Up on Aisle Three," an color animation describing, almost with lifelike precision, many of Eleanor's older customers at Wegmans; and the last one, "The Food King," pitched as "The romance between a cat and his food." I gathered, from one of the faculty comments, that cat animations are popular subjects in these screenings, almost to the point of becoming a trope, but this one, just a few minutes of black and white cat in absolute rapture with various noms, was so well done that she pulled it off.
Yet we're proudest of all of our own's contribution to the collection. Even Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank would have had to let her go by the time they saw this one:)
The programme gives you a flavor for the general ambience of the place:
Two guys acted as hosts-slash-bots, and while they did no MSTizing during the films, they told jokes, played with props and ran filler videos in between them to keep the movie train more or less careening dangerously down the track at a just slightly faster than safe pace.
As for the films themselves: WOWsers. When we visited two springs ago, the animation school gave us a DVD of that year's senior project films, which we marveled at in terms of their creativity, technical expertise and utter fearlessness. Today's group- a few senior-thesis projects, but most, like Em's, just underclass projects from a 10 or 20 week course- were just as creative, well cast (in the live action cases) and drawn/CGI'd (in the larger number of animated ones), technically proficient and just as willing to stretch the bounds of what short films and animations are allegedly supposed to be. After each screening, the creator(s), sometimes with their producer or DP, came up for questions or comments, and all got good reviews, but constructive criticism, as well.
I'm told that Emily's will be on Vimeo soon, so I'll let it speak for itself when I can link to it. Of the others, our favorites included two from near the end of the morning: "Clean-Up on Aisle Three," an color animation describing, almost with lifelike precision, many of Eleanor's older customers at Wegmans; and the last one, "The Food King," pitched as "The romance between a cat and his food." I gathered, from one of the faculty comments, that cat animations are popular subjects in these screenings, almost to the point of becoming a trope, but this one, just a few minutes of black and white cat in absolute rapture with various noms, was so well done that she pulled it off.
Yet we're proudest of all of our own's contribution to the collection. Even Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank would have had to let her go by the time they saw this one:)