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A new machine to help animators is on show at the Cambridge Animation Festival

1981 , Cambridge (Cambridgeshire)

Cat no. 115189

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Guy Michelmore reports on a new machine that will make film animation quicker and easier

An animator sits at the new machine, demonstrating how it is used. The camera shows a close-up of the animation he is drawing. Guy Michelmore asks how it turns drawings into film. The animator Bob Wheeler explains that a camera takes pictures which are put in sequentially and becomes animation on the screen. The advantage of this instead of using film cameras is the ability to make alterations to the sequence. Animation studios will likely be using it in the future. They discuss the differences between this application, which is computer-assisted animation, and the computers that can produce the pictures necessary for a sequence when just the first and last are inputted. Michelmore asks Chris James if it is worth the money, and he predicts animation will become better and more accessible to people.

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1981 Cambridge Animation Festival.

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Art; Animation; Animators; Animation Production Techniques; Character Animation; Computers; Machine; Machinery; Stop-Motion Animation; Technology; Film Animation

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New York-born Animator Chris James is famous for the award-winning films ‘About Face’ and ‘After Beardsley’. He settled in England in the mid-60s. His film “About Face” was runner-up in the Grierson Award for Best Short Film of 1978 and was screened on the inaugural day of the launch of the television Channel 4 in November 1982. In 1981 he produced the film “After Beardsley” about the artist Aubrey Beardsley. The Quick Action Recorder (QAR) is a new computer which has proven to be a great advance in the animation world.

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A new machine to help animators is on show at the Cambridge Animation Festival

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