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"In The Moog" (U-Arts Animation)

2014-04-18T03:24:40.548Z

This is a rotoscoped animation created by the students of my 2013 "Object Animation" class at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia PA. The source material was a 16mm print of a music video created by my father's company Record on Film, in 1969 that was a medley of electronic music performed by Richard Hyman on a Moog synthesizer.

"Spacid Filmutations" (U-Arts Animation)

2013-06-22T05:59:32.388Z

"Spacid Filmutions" is the title of this 2013 U-Arts, Object Animation class, group project, cameraless animation experimental film. As the title implies it is, in part, about the mutation of film, it is also an abstract experiment in motion picture visual music.
The students worked their imagery directly onto a variety 35mm film stocks that I supplied, using a wide range of media, methods, and techniques to artistically alter the original film materials (if you look carefully, you can find imbedded on some of the source material film clips, images from the TV show, "Pee Wee's Playhouse", & the feature film, "Star Trek V"). The finished film clips were edited together and then transferred at Technicolor Postworks in NYC to an HD digital file for final editing, sound, effects, and titles. The film was directed by student, Nishant Thelakkat. Sound design and music is by greenbeanz & nhuhn (students Mike Green & Nick Huhn). Editing is by Nick Huhn & myself, and title designs are by student, Alleanna Harris.

"Pee Wee's Psychedelic Adventure"

2013-05-16T16:18:06.244Z

Through the magical combination of music, cameraless animation, and a digital transfer of scratched, painted, dyed, and drawn on, 35mm film stock, Pee Wee Herman & Cowboy Curtis (Laurence Fishburne) are transported beyond the fourth wall on a psychedelic adventure at Pee Wee's Playhouse. This is an experimental art film that laughs at itself while exploring alternative realities on multiple levels. The source material 35mm roll of film was one I had left over from my days as an animation DP (Director of Photography) in the 80's and 90's. All the art-on-film animation was created by myself and five students (Shannon Brice, Alleanna Harris, Ben Howell, Bianca Lott, & Austin Myers) from my 2013 Object Animation class at U-Arts in Philadelphia.
The film to digital transfer was done at Technicolor, Postworks in NYC.
The music is a live performance of the song "4 to 6 or 25" written and performed by Anonymous

"Jukie's Ball" Dan Hicks (U-Arts Animation)

2012-09-19T21:23:17.364Z

This is a rotoscoped animation created as a group project by my "Animation ll" class at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia of 2008. The students created the artwork from a 16mm film print loaded in the school's Oxberry animation stand camera, which I set up as a single frame projection system. The film we used was a music video originally created through my father's company "Record on Film" for the band Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks in 1968 for a song titled "Jukie's Ball". I encouraged the students to explore their imaginations with a diverse range of techniques and drawing styles. The finished drawings were then captured using istopmotion software, and reintegrated with the original audio from the music video. The edit and titles were by me and student David Guerrieri.

"Splice Tape Decay" (U-Arts Animation)

2012-08-30T04:33:44.234Z

Created on 35mm film by the students of my 2012 Animation ll class at U-Arts in Philadelphia, PA. The imagery is applied, burned, painted, punched, scraped, scratched, smeared, and stenciled onto a variety of black leader, clear leader, print, neg, and old hi-con matt roll stock. Once created, I had the film imagery transferred professionally to hi-res digital files at Technicolor in NYC on a Spirit. Those files were then edited and manipulated via After Effects by Glenn Rinnier. The music is "Imperials" by Ratatat with additional sound design by Ricky Christian.