Проектът 10X10X14

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На този линк ще намерите 464 филма от проекта, в който юнашки участваха български студенти аниматори и композитори от  НБУ, НАТФИЗ, АМТИ - Пловдив. Радостно е и участието на Елеонора Аспарухова от University of Salford, Manchester.
Чуждестранното участие е от Edinburgh College of Art, които са инициатори на проекта в лицето на Джаред Тейлър; University of Salford, Manchester; Baden-Wurtemberg, The Institute of Applied Arts, Luzerne, Switzerland' Musiccube Academy, Arnhem, the Netherlands.

Всеки ден всеки студент прави по един филм, студентите си разменят филми и музика, в резултат на което можете да видите няколко филма с една и съща музика или един филм с пет-шест варианта музика. Колкото и налудничаво да звучи, резултатът си струва да се види от всички, изкушени в изкуството на анимацията.

НБУ участва вече за втори път в това начинание, но миналата година беше малко по-просто, тъй като участвахме само два университета - НБУ и ECA.

Другото ново, освен нарасналият брой студенти и университети, е и два дни, посветени на творчеството на Доньо Донев и на Норман МакЛарън, чиято100 годишнина се чества тази година.

Мисля си, че всички наши студенти, взели участие в това изтощително, но и видимо зареждащо филмово приключение, заслужават да се знаят имената им, затова ги публикувам тук. Линкове към филмите ще намерите по-горе.

New Bulgarian University - participants

Anita Toncheva -4 films

Bogomila  Yordanova -10 films

Blagomila Bairaktarova-10 films

Diana Tsenova - 8 films

Diliana Traikova-10 films

Goritsa Dimitrova - 7 films

Hristina Klissarova - 5 films

Katerina Miteva - 5 films

Maria Peteva-10 films

Marina Koleva-10 films

Nadia Arsova-10 films

Phillip Temnialov-1 film

Stilliana Dineva-10 films

Stoyan Georgiev - 8 films

Valia Paneva-10 films

Silvia Ivanova, Bogdan Nedkov -1 film

NATFA

Antony Tonev - 10 films

Atanas Philipov -8 films

Avgustina Vasileva - 4 films

Diana Monova -6 films

Margarita Stamenova - 3 films

Composers NBU

Valeria Popova Krachunova -4 soundtracks

Prof. Stephan Dragostinov has been so kind as to let the students use three of his soundtracks.

Composers AMDFA

Alexander Kostov -44 soundtracks Tihomir Hristozov - 3 soundtracks

Извинявам се за латиницата, но направих списъка така, че да може да се ползва и от нашите партньори в проекта. Извинявам се, че посочих кой с колко филми е завършил - с това не искам никого да дискриминирам, напротив. Просто въпрос на лично време и ангажименти, а понякога и на светоусещане. Някои филми са по-дълги и са работени в продължение на всичките десет дни. Разнообразието е забележително!

In memorium

We are sad to report the passing of Oscar-nominated American animator Michael Sporn at the age of 67 from pancreatic cancer. The influential New York-based artist was working on Poe, his 2D-animated feature about Edgar Allan Poe for the past few years.

Sporn, who was a staple of the indie animation scene in New York, was well-regarded for his meticulously crafted 2D-animated specials and shorts which he produced and directed for HBO, PBS (Simple Gifts, and the Emmy-nominated Abel’s Island), Showtime, CBS, Weston Woods and Scholastic. He began his career in the early 1970s, after majoring in fine arts and the New York Institute of Technology and spending five years in the Navy, working as a Russian translator and studying art and animation by mail. His animation career took off after he began working with the likes of John and Faith Hubley and Richard Williams (as assistant animator on the 1977 feature Raggedy Ann & Andy). He formed his own company in 1980 and continued to deliver outstanding short, including the 1984 short, Doctor DeSoto, which received an Oscar nomination.

Among his many other critically acclaimed projects were The Red Shows, The Dancing Frog, Lyle Lyle Crocodile, the Emmy-nominated Whitewash, The Little Match Girl, Ira Sleeps Over, The Country Mouse and the City Mouse, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shove, and The Poky Little Puppy’s First Christmas. More recent book adaptations included the Emmy-winning Good Night Moon and Happy To Be Nappy and a Grandma Moses version of The Night Before Christmas.

In 2005, Sporn’s 10-minute short The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (based on Mordicai Gerstein’s book about Philippe Petit’s famous walk between the Twin Towers) also received acclaim at festivals around the world. In 2011, he directed the animation for HBO’s I Can Be President, focusing on the dreams of children who wanted to be the President of the United States.

In a 1987 Los Angeles Times interview with Charles Solomon, Sporn said, “My mother claims I said ‘cartoon’ a special way when I was 4,” he says. “I was drawing an imitation of Popeye at 7. I started my own version of every animated feature I saw, and began filming my animation in 8-millimeter when I was 12.”

The influential New York-based artist was working on Poe, his 2D-animated feature about Edgar Allan Poe for the past few years.Sporn is survived by his wife, actress and director Heidi Stallings.

Thankfully, animations fans can enjoy most of this amazing artist’s socially relevant and fluid adaptations of quality children’s literature on DVD. (See www.michaelspornanimation.com).

Poe