Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published.
This chapter deals with C.P.Norman, also known as Norman Delany.
CP. NORMAN approaches film decor as a scenic artist with the knowledge of the photographer — he is lucky in knowing how far ‘make-believe’ can [...]
A gruesome and grisly recipe book by Martin Howard and Colin Stimpson. Yes that’s the same Colin Stimpson as is featured in the blogroll to the right.
I never realised he had such a morbid streak.
The book contains lots of useful and tasty recipes, including instructions on how to cook Flat Jacks:
(Click to [...]
Déja vu, anyone?
As well as using live action reference as guides for animation moves, it seems that the Walt Disney Feature Animation artists weren’t above re-using old sequences in new films.
A low res mix of two almost identical frames from two different films.
A French animation fan has cut together this video with frame accurate comparisons [...]
A report by The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) reveals that there are nearly two million people in the USA who identify themselves as artists. This figure is only just smaller than the US military personnel (2.2m). Artists compose 1.4 percent of the total workforce, and between them, their aggregate earnings per [...]
Regular visitors might have noticed that Articles & Texticles has changed its appearance.
After a couple of years of using the lovely minimalist theme called “plaintxtblog” designed by Scott Wallick, I’ve now converted the site to a theme called “Shades of Gray” which is based on a very advanced sandbox design by, er, Scott Wallick.
Shades of [...]
… then don’t worry!
Articles and Texticles is now generating metadata that’s readable by Zotero and other COinS interpreters.
If you haven’t yet met Zotero, the online researcher’s best friend, have a look at the video linked on this page, and all will become clear. It’s a very useful tool, I promise!
Here’s the second post arising from the discovery of a group of documents published by the animator Richard Williams sometime in the late 1970’s.
He’s making a strong bid for the high ground in this document, elevating himself (and his studio staff) to being the natural successors to the skills and craft base of the Walt [...]
A short film about an art form that flourished in the 20th Century, that now faces an uncertain future.
Full of arcane references for those who know their history
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This brilliant cartoon by P.J.Polyp was originally published in The Ethical Consumer and is one of nearly 1000 postcards published by Leeds Postcards.
(Click to enlarge the thumbnail)
The New Internationalist regularly features his work.
Update. Polyp has kindly added a link to an animated version of the Rat Race on Friends of the Earth’s website, [...]
No.1: The Macaw
(You’ll have to do what the parrot says, and click on his image.)
And yes, you’re right it is a macaw. It’s the image that started me off on a long rumination about parrots.
I found it in the astonishingly well constructed site run by the New York Public Library, amongst a few thousand [...]
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