I promise I will clean these up. Just wanted to make them available:
{Thank Audience for Coming}
{Brief Introduction}
Disney -- another garage innovator (Ford, Wozniak/Jobs)
So where are we now?
Show StrongBad
Made in Parent's Basement
Money is made on merchandise
Marketing is word of mouth via the internet
It is too hard. Animation takes too long:
Show Red vs. Blue
I have this idea for a movie!
Show Dracula's guest
Key points:
Strong characterization Easily identifiable characters (Mickey Mouse)
The Audience is in on the Joke (Strongbad/Red vs. Blue gaming/internet culture)
Voice Acting is critical, perhaps more important than polished animation
What do we make of this?
Star Wars PowerPoint
Is this animation (yes it is, a parody of what is essentially a storyboarding tool, PowerPoint).
Does it tell a story? Steamboat willie told a story. So does this.
It shows that economy has a place. Everything doesn't have to be big to work, which is in favor of animators (time/labor intensive) and potential audience (cartoons work great on the ipod).
Digital media is now reached commodity state. YMND is communal digital media jokes, reflected/refracted/remixed with a rapidity that is quite amazing. It is almost like a bed of coral that grows and grows. It demonstrates in a tangible way what "visual literacy" really means, what a literacy beyond text could look like.
Digital Media is folk art for today. What we create is a part of us, no matter what the material.
References:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/
http://www.archive.org/details/machimina
http://www.candlelightstories.com/Movies.asp
http://www.ytmnd.com
http://lay-uh.ytmnd.com/
http://www.lionhead.com/themovies/
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