SMST31805A Animation Studies

1
SMST318-05AAnimation Studies

• Week 8 Lecture
• Sonic Animation

2
Sonic Animation

• Abstract visual music
• Audiovisual computer graphics
• Music video

3
Visual Music Animators

• Walter Ruttman
• Viking Eggeling
• Oskar Fischinger
• Jordan Belson
• Len Lye
• Norman McLaren

4

• General Principles of Visual Music
• Abstract imagery in space time
• Synthesis of motion, colour sound
• Synchronization and counterpoint
• Function of colour
• Dynamic choreography
• Painting in motion
• Function of the film frame
• Play of light
• Form
• Non- representational

5
Walter Ruttman - Opus 1
6
Viking Eggeling - Diagonal Symphony
7
(No Transcript)