Animation

Oh No Bear! (new animation)

October 24, 2009 Animation
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A short, digitally rotoscoped animation about some unexpected visitors to our yard in Northampton, Massachusetts, back in 2002. Starring my son Max. (Completed 13/10/09.)

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First year students create rotoscoped animation

December 5, 2007 Animation
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With barely any experience using Flash, the 64 first-year students in my Fall 07 Intermedia class courageously embarked on their first ever rotoscoping assignment. For three intensive weeks, we worked with a wild concert video featuring Girl Talk, which was shot and cut together by Brett Gaylor’s Open Source Cinema Project. The results are very [...]

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Radical knitting

August 16, 2004 Animation
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During my stay at the Digital Poetics and Politics institute at Queen’s University, I learned all about the radical potential of knitting from Kirsty, one of my co-participants. An unlikely combination, perhaps, until you actually start to think about it more deeply. Knitting is, in itself, a remarkably rich metaphor when considering issues of gender [...]

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