Caricatures Ireland » animation http://www.caricatures-ireland.com/blog Wedding and Corporate Entertainment throughout Ireland. e:info@allancavanagh.com Ph: 087 7599249 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:33:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 #GE11 Guest Post: Some notes on producing animated Cutbacks! http://www.caricatures-ireland.com/blog/ge11-guest-post-some-notes-on-producing-animated-cutbacks/ http://www.caricatures-ireland.com/blog/ge11-guest-post-some-notes-on-producing-animated-cutbacks/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:46:38 +0000 Allan http://www.caricatures-ireland.com/blog/?p=2954
This is a guest post by DT Finn, who’s doing some brilliant stopmotion satire on his YouTube channel. I asked him to explain a little about the process of making the clips.

I started Cutbacks almost two years ago, furious at what was happening with Lisbon and with Mister Cowen’s government. The stopmotion characters are relatively low-tech, constructed from electrical wire, latex, insulating foam, masking tape, felt and offcut material. The voice is recorded, edited and broken down into frames. The characters are animated against greenscreen, then composited onto photo or video backgrounds. The animation is shot in full HD, though it’s outputted much smaller for internet distribution.
The internet interest has started to build a lot over the past few months, especially since kicking Mister Cowen suddenly became fashionable… A short film Mister Heaney, A Wee Portrait, based on the internet characters, won Best Animation at the 2010 Galway Film Fleadh. The comments, subscriptions and obvious enthusiasm of the audience are all helping to feed and develop the Cutbacks project IP. The problem of ‘monetising’ the Intellectual Property is more complicated. With Barley Films, I’m trying to push different versions of the project towards TV, approaching the Irish Film Board, RTE, TV3 and DCTV. It’s difficult to convince decision makers that the animation material can be turned around fast enough to remain politically relevant. Thanks for all the interest in ‘cutbacks’ and thanks to Allan for pushing it over the past few weeks!

Btw, for even more disgraceful stopmotion, check out rinkydink at… www.youtube.com/user/rinkyTV

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Apparently Matt Buck had this animation out within minutes of Gordon Brown’s speech yesterday. As a cartoonist I find that fascinating: the internet and specifically blogging have condensed the reaction time to events even for political cartoonists. And it’s no mean feat either, it’s a full-on flash animation rather than a static image.
Great, more pressure!

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Via Damien Mulley’s blog, How To Deal With Death. This has moments of genius- watch how the wings linger over the woman, caressing her with each sweep. Beautiful.

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This is something I worked on with some friends last year. They’re due to start shooting it in May having secured some funding, so I popped it up on YouTube. I’m going to put up the trailer they made when I get my hands on it, and hopefully the finished short. It’ll be interesting to see the page-to-screen process.
As for the storyboard, it was rattled out over a few meetings. The actual storyboard is here, but I fancied seeing how it read with transitions etc. I scanned each frame, put them together in Windows Moviemaker and dropped some music over it (Aphex Twin and Matrix soundtrack respectively!). It only took about half an hour and there’s no dialogue but it really helped to see it moving, even in this limited way.
I’ll be posting more about the film as it progresses.

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