30/09/13
Norman McLaren was Scottish born and moved to Canada. From 1933 he studied at Glasgow School of Arts. In 1942 he was summoned back to Canada for an animation commision. Norman was the pioneer of pixelation which can be seen in Peter Gabriels music video for the song Sledgehammer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q
We also watched a short animation of his called Neighbors which was based on the world war. It was based on the concept of two people living to each to other happily until something new comes into their midst and they both want it. I quite liked this animation as to was unique to the things I have seen before. It was also quite a comical anmation dispite being based on something rather dark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YAYGi8rQag
We also learnt about a man called Oskar Fischinger who was an abstract animator/filmmaker. He used coloured liquids, wax and clay as his medium and experimented with multiple projectors with music accompianment. In 1928 he was hired by Fritz Lang and experimented with charcoal on paper animation. Unfortunately during the war, the Nazi's dissolved abstract art community calling it 'degenerate art'.
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