Author: Odi Sogard (Page 1 of 3)

Joan Gratz is an Academy Award winning director for animated short films and commercials. Her main medium for animating is clay painting, in which she puts down bits of clay and blends them together and etches details into them. in 1987 she created her own film studio named Gratzfilm. in 1992 she won an Oscar for her short film Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase. she also lives on a house boat Portland, Oregon.

The film im talking about today is The Second Coming. This short is based off of a William Butler Yeats poem by the same name. The poem talks about the Post-World war I anxiety in Europe and the loss of traditions. It describes the christian idea of the second coming

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William Butler Yeats was an irish poet. he was appointed to the Irish Senate in 1922. He also received the Nobel Prize in in 1923 for Literature. And he had founded the Irish Theatre, which later became the Abbey Theatre.

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Devil May Cry is a video game franchise developed and published by Capcom. its first game was released in 2001 for the playstation 2, and had 2 more games releasing before its first anime adaptation in 2007.

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The 2007 anime wasn’t a bit hit with some of the fans while other fans absolutely loved it, gathering a 7/10 in its IMDB page. Many fans just enjoyed seeing a more calmer side of the main character compared to the games.

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Earlier this month netflix announced a new Devil May Cry anime

When the show released many fans were excited to watch it, but a lot of them didn’t like it. As it wasn’t even apart of the storyline from the games, but strangely it has a rotten tomatoes rating of 95%. The critics seems to like it more than some fans. its also a great introduction to the video game series in my opinion.

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My favorite animated adaptation is the pokemon series, specifically the X and Y series, while my least favorite animated adaptation is the new lion king, Mufasa.

I really like X and Y pokemon series because it was the first ever pokemon related content I had absorbed into my brain. and because i really enjoy the entire franchise as a whole. while with Mufasa, i just don’t enjoy disney turning their movies into live action. I know that they didn’t use actual lions, but they animated the animals with CGI and it doesn’t have that disney charm like their hand drawn movies do.

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The Breadwinner, talks about the struggles of a family after the start of the Taliban. showing what some people had to do to save their family from hunger and death. Parvana sacrificed her identity to help her family and get her father back from jail. While Persepolis, talks about the Iran-Iraq War and the experiences that the writer of the comics had seen first hand. It talks about her, Marji, and the story throughout it. From the beginning to the end.

Both of the films talk about the oppression of women and girls. The governments that start to rise in power are the villains in the movies, they made the girls cover up outside, and couldn’t be seen out alone, not to mention the way the men are being harsh to the women and girls. 

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The Scenes that I’m going to compare are the ones from when they are telling a story. While both of the movies are animated in a certain style, the story that is told within is different. They both use a paper puppet style of animation, like stop motion. The color pallets are also different. In The Breadwinner, the colors are prominent, while in Persepolis there is no color at all, just black and white.

Jiří Barta was born in 1948 in Prague, Czech Republic. he studied animation at the University of Applied Art. After graduating, he began working on his first animation film in the Jiří Trnka Studios in 1978.

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He is most known for his interesting production design in stop motion by using mysterious horror themes and his wooden curved puppets used for the characters. Back in the day, he had a difficult time releasing his films in Czechoslovakia for about 15 years because of the censorship from the Communists.

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One of his most popular films is Toys in The Attic (english release 2012, czech release 2009). Toys in The Attic was adapted for an english release by Vivian Schilling. she had written, casted, and directed the english version. the style of the movie is both stop-motion, hand-drawn, and live action.

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another one of his films, The Club of the Laid Off, talks about the Velvet Revolution and communism in the Czech Republic. The Club of the Laid Off tells the story of Laid-off old mannequins that spend their lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old, but from a younger generation. The two groups must live together, but it’s not easy.

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Works Cited

The Master Stop-Motion Animator, Jiří Barta

Jiří Barta

Robert McKimson had studied art in school for about ten years, and had gotten a job at Walt Disney Studios and had worked there for about two years. After working there, he moved to the Romer Grey Studio, but unfortunately the studio was affected by the wall street crash of 1929 and many works were never released to the public. 

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But he was then approached by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising to do ink work and painting for their show, Looney Toons. Later on McKimson became an in-betweener for the show, but unfortunately he got into an accident resulting in a concussion. Miraculously the concussion made him able to “see” his art better in his head, thus benefiting him in his job, helping him to rise in status. He had become the head animator for Looney Toons shortly after. But he couldn’t handle all the work and had stepped down from the position and started to work with Bob Clampett. McKimson became a director for Warner Bros. in 1944 after one of their directors stepped down to do live action films. 

McKimson is relatively known for the characters Taz (Tasmanian Devil) and Foghorn Leghorn. As well as the pairing of Hippety Hopper and Sylvester. He had also directed Daffy Doodles and The Pink Panther Show.

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Fun fact: he was the only animator to stay the entire career of Looney Tunes. And his two brothers are also animators, one of them worked at Warner Bros. with him.

As we have to compare our director with another, I chose to use Tex Avery. Both McKimson and Avery have similar styles as they had both worked for Warner Bros. but, Avery had animated more humans than McKimson.

McKimson was born on october 13th 1910 in colorado, and died september 29th, 1977 of a heart attack.

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Works Cited

https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_McKimson