Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
Charade Film Titles and Opening Scene
These titles for the movie Charade were designed by Maurice Binder, the man behind the famous James Bond gun barrel openers. Binder had never done titles before.Director Stanley Donen liked the newspaper ads he was making for him and asked him to do the titles for Indiscreet in 1958.
The sequence is a classic specimen of mid-century modern graphics and animation from the golden age of film titling. Watch it below.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Lotte Reiniger. Genius.
Lotte Reiniger is an unknown in the USA but very beloved in my home country of Germany where she was born.
I have decided to introduce more specifically German culture via my blog, there is so much wonderful art to introduced to.
I am starting of with a bang....
Please let me introduce you to Lotte Reinigers World.
Lotte Reiniger was one of the twentieth century's major animation artists, pioneering a unique and distinctive style of black and white silhouette animation in her interpretations of classic myths and fairy tales.
Lotte Reiniger has the distinction of creating the very first feature animation, her enthralling The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), an epic silhouette film featuring highly ornate shapes of exotic lands, gallant heroes, nefarious magic, and a rousing climax with a multi-headed beast. A German leftist in the age of fascism, after the war she moved to England, where she continued to build a visionary oeuvre totalling over fifty films, mostly shorts, many of them for BBC Children’s TV. She made her last film, The Rose and the Ring (1979), at the age of 80. In addition to their craft and charm, her films have two outstanding features: they are highly intricate, yet also opaque, inviting viewers to fill in details with their own imagination, thus creating a captivating aesthetic as commanding today as ever.
...and very much sampled by American artist Kara Walker.
( I have never heard her mention Lotte Reiniger as a direct influence for her work....)
I have decided to introduce more specifically German culture via my blog, there is so much wonderful art to introduced to.
I am starting of with a bang....
Please let me introduce you to Lotte Reinigers World.
Lotte Reiniger was one of the twentieth century's major animation artists, pioneering a unique and distinctive style of black and white silhouette animation in her interpretations of classic myths and fairy tales.
Lotte Reiniger has the distinction of creating the very first feature animation, her enthralling The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), an epic silhouette film featuring highly ornate shapes of exotic lands, gallant heroes, nefarious magic, and a rousing climax with a multi-headed beast. A German leftist in the age of fascism, after the war she moved to England, where she continued to build a visionary oeuvre totalling over fifty films, mostly shorts, many of them for BBC Children’s TV. She made her last film, The Rose and the Ring (1979), at the age of 80. In addition to their craft and charm, her films have two outstanding features: they are highly intricate, yet also opaque, inviting viewers to fill in details with their own imagination, thus creating a captivating aesthetic as commanding today as ever.
...and very much sampled by American artist Kara Walker.
( I have never heard her mention Lotte Reiniger as a direct influence for her work....)
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