From the category archives:

Animation

Oh No Bear! (new animation)

October 24, 2009 Animation

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.)

The Poem of the Transparent Girl

May 21, 2009 Animation

This is one of the highlights of what seemed like a very long teaching year. And now it’s time for a sabbatical. Phew.

First year students create rotoscoped animation

December 5, 2007 Animation

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 [...]

First Year Flash

April 17, 2007 Animation

Sixty students doing an intro Flash assignment. The brief: get noticed.

Flash bonanza

December 10, 2006 Animation

What happens when you let 63 first-year students loose on their first Flash assignment.

Radical knitting

August 16, 2004 Animation

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 [...]