Archive for June, 2006
Purley Boys – amazing place the internet!
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I always seem to get get horrified ‘gasps’ when I explain my schooling at Purley Boys, I remember Mr Akers standing up during one lunchtime and exclaiming: “What do you think this is some damn comprehensive!” Of course it was! Being at PB was an incredible experience some of which is highlighted in this article, and remember I only left in 1989! The cane had been abolished when I was there but there were many ‘incidences’ I had where I think Mr Akers would have like that option.
Purley High was certainly run along unusually traditional lines. Consider the school’s ‘Rules and Procedure for the Guidance of Parents and Boys’, 1978 edition. They don’t mention caning but they must have left the prospective parent and pupil in little doubt about the style of the place. Here are just a few extracts: (more…)
How we’ve moved on!
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Disney, 1939: No woman animators allowed:
Pixar’s John Lasseter student film
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Lasseter created it while attending CalArts in the late 1970s. Click here
“While Lady and the Lamp is not a very good transfer of the pencil-test animation, you can clearly see Lasseter’s ability to give motion and life to supposedly inanimate objects that he’d continue to develop over the years… definitely worth a look!”
My Dinner with The Brothers Quay (I wish!)
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Very interesting interview with The Brothers Quay over at AWN.
Timothy and Stephen Quay. All images unless otherwise noted courtesy of Zeitgeist Films. Right images courtesy of Sarah Baisley.
Looking good ‘Fairy Berry’
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A saw this over at Cartoon Brew and thought the style look really neat.
FAIRY BERRY was one of the student films in competition at Annecy. It’s a CG work by Thomas Guittoneau, Yacine Sefsaf, Virginie Giroux and Ho Hung Yu produced at EESA (Ecole Européenne Supérieure d’Animation). Nothing groundbreaking animation-wise or story-wise—the plot is a scene right out of SLEEPING BEAUTY—but it’s nice to see students not getting caught up in photorealism and pushing CG in a more stylized direciton.
Pixars ‘Ratatouille’ trailer online
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Brad Bird follows up the spectacular Incredibles with Ratatouille:
Apple has the trailer for the next Disney Pixar movie coming out in 2007. It’s called Ratatouille and it appears to be about a Parisian rat (without a phony French accent) who, unlike other rats in his family, insists on eating only the finest food served in Paris’ best restaurants.
