Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.comics Subject: Re: An OZian view..[actually Claymation] Message-ID: <545@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 23:16:09 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.545 Posted: Fri Feb 28 23:16:09 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Mar-86 18:50:43 EST References: <938@rlgvax.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 46 Xref: watmath net.movies:9378 net.comics:2782 Summary: my gawd...it's been discovered! In article <938@rlgvax.UUCP> oz@rlgvax.UUCP writes: >... >But what of the animation you say? I can't think of the words that I need >to get you to leap up from your terminals and run to see if there is a >showing of this film right now. > >When Steve Knight first raved about how incredible the facial expressions >were, I thought that he was exaggerating. After all Disney, and Warner >Bros were able to convey many emotions in the faces of their characters. I >owe Mr. Knight an apology and am glad to do it here publicly, I have never >been able to read what a animated character is thinking as well as I could >in this film. In Adam and Eve you watch Adam go from total enjoyment in >his paradise, to confusion in the arrival of Eve, to caring when he >discovers that he loves her, and finally to sorrow when he is left alone. >All of these emotions were shown SUBTLY in his face. It was incredible. >The sorrow on Mr. Twains face when he speaks of his late wife makes you >want to put your arm around his shoulder and comfort him. Animated >characters have made me laugh, cry and shrink back in my seat before, but >this is the first time that they made me feel empathic. >... > OZ > seismo!rlgvax!oz In those dim, dark years of high school so long ago (actually, circa '79-82) we maintained a film club in which the 6 of us would gather in the library and run through films. And the film we watched the most, more often than The Battleship Potemkin (4 times), more often than Hardware Wars (6 times), more often even than the collected works of Mike Jittlov (uncountably many times), we watched the first non-trivial Claymation film, a documentary about how the process was painstakingly executed. Naturally, it inspired us to spend many afternoons unsuccessfully constructing armatures, formless blobs, and outlandishly weird sets. And, of course, we spent a lot on clay. Just a reminder that such a documentary exists, from the late seventies. Although I haven't seen the Adventures of Mark Twain yet, what few clips I have seen indicate that while the process was just as developed those years ago, they DO seem to have improved a tiny bit on keeping fingerprints off the clay... :-) -dave -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu "Godzilla has been spotted in Sector 5!"