Thursday, June 25, 2009

Photoshop and IMovie Tutorials

Photoshop Tutorials:
Photoshop Basic Tools Overview
Understanding Layers: Basic introduction to layers, one of the most important features of Photoshop
Photomation: Animating from photographs using Photoshop and iMovie, first of a four part video tutorial

IMovie Tutorials:
IMovie 09 Guided Tour
IMovie Tutorials on the Apple website

Rotoscoping

Behind the scenes look at rotoscoping used in the film A Scanner Darkly

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Linear Narrative and Book Structure

Comic artist Scott McCloud's lecture on TED
Scott McCloud's website




"Little Sammy Sneeze" comic strip, published 1904-1906. Created by Winsor McCay (1871-1934).

Harvey Pekar
R. Crumb
Art Spiegelman 
Marjane Satrapi

Monday, June 8, 2009

Storyboards for Bram Stoker's Dracula


A supplemental featurette on the 1993 Criterion laserdisc for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).
Storyboard artists: David Lowery and Iain McCaig

Storyboard Examples


Animatics and Storyboards
Steve Simmons
Perdue University Student Work
Storyboards for The Matrix Trilogy
Michael Borkowski
Storyboards for Friday the 13th
Pixar: How We Do It







"Little Nemo in Slumberland", Winsor McCay, 1910
http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/

Oren Lavie - "Her Morning Elegance" Music Video


Her Morning Elegance
Directed by: Oren Lavie, Yuval & Merav Nathan
Featuring: Shir Shomron
Photography: Eyal Landesman
Color: Todd Iorio at Resolution
© 2009 A Quarter Past Wonderful

PES - "Western Spaghetti"


PES, American, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/user/PESfilm

Jennifer Steinkamp - "Jimmy Carter"



Jennifer Steinkamp, American, 2002
http://jsteinkamp.com/

Pipilotti Rist - "Ever is Over All"



Pipilotti Rist, Swiss, 1997, this is an excerpt of her video installation at the MOMA