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Absolut Panushka, Jan-Apr 1997.
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Mike Patterson's Cal Arts student film Commuter won several prizes, and he was commissioned to repeat a similar style of animation -- rotoscope rendered in very free strokes -- for the A-Ha video Take on Me. Patterson and his wife Candace Reckinger also animated the traditional cartoon fox dancing with Paula Abdul in her Opposites Attract video. Another Cal Arts grad, Chris Casady (whose abstract Pencil Dance won a prize at Annecy) made a vivid, violent rotoscoped animation for the Beastie Boys' Shadrach. And Joanna Priestley animated portions of Joni Mitchell's 1985 video Good Friends. Henry Selick was commissioned by MTV to create the short film Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions, an elaborate puppet animation with music by The Residents. The film has become an enduring classic on MTV. And even so august a filmmaker as Jan Svankmajer animated meat for Hugh Campbell's Another Kind of Love. Most often this animation work goes uncredited. Even when a director is mentioned in the identification titles in the lower left at the beginning of a video, the name often belongs to the producer who arranged the whole video or shot some live-action footage rather than the actual animator(s) who created the images. Moritz, William. "History of Experimental Animation." Website. Absolut Panushka, curated by Christine Panushka. (Jan-Apr 1997). |
