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Caroline Leaf, {1974} The Owl Who Married a Goose

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Interview, a short film by Caroline Leaf & Veronika Soul

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Experimental Animation Workshop

The workshop this week in Experimental Animation with @ysweeneylsad we were introduced to a animation. The focus was on non-traditional hand-drawn animation but on exploring animation in other forms.

For my work, I took inspiration from William Kentridge's charcoal animation series,

The chalk animation 'Humorous Phases of Funny Faces' by James Stuart Blackton,

and Caroline Leaf's sand animations.

For practise during the workshop I made a small animation of a house collapsing based off my Disrupt project.

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Artist Research - Caroline Leaf

Caroline Leaf is a multi award winning Artist and Animator, who has created a variety of animated experimental films in her career, creating "The Street", "The Owl Who Married a Goose" and "Kate and Anna McGarrigle". Although she has authored few films, her ability to create compelling narratives, her innovative and creative process utilizing any material she can to create her animations, and her open minded nature has led to her becoming a recognized and respected artist.

Attending a 1 year animation course at Harvard University in 1968, she learnt to use Animation not as an industry professional, but as an artistic form of self expression. This is where she learnt how to draw using essentially anything that could be manipulated into forming images. Leaf was not taught about film language or editing, rather the class was often left alone to discover their owl solutions.

Leaf's first film, "Sand or Peter and the Wolf" was made from a jar of beach sand poured onto a light box. This created a distinct and shadowy feel to her work, which would inspire her future creative endeavors. Her following films are continued refinements of these techniques. Leaf's techniques did not align with traditional team productions, because of this she mostly worked solo, being sole director and animator on her projects.

Leaf's films are known for their emotional story telling and distinctive vocative style. the imagery is rough and unnatural in some of her work, simplistic and childlike in others. In 1984 the Oscars placed leaf's "The Street" in second place when judging all animated films ever made, winning over Disney and other corporate productions.

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The CUTTING EDGE of Neuroscience with Dr. Caroline Leaf

The CUTTING EDGE of Neuroscience with Dr. Caroline Leaf Ed Mylett – Industries in one place, sharing their journey, knowledge and thought leadership.

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Caroline Leaf.

Canadian-American filmmaker Caroline Leaf was born in 1946 on the 12th of August. Renowned as a great woman animator, her handcrafted animation techniques are known for leaving an impact due to her emphasis on storytelling and emotional content.

Leaf is credited with such works as; Sand or Peter and the Wolf, The Owl who Married a Goose, The Street, and The Metamorphosis of Mr Samsa. As well as 'Odysseus and the Olive Tree' in 2001. Looking at a list of her works leads to a consistent pattern of story adapation that varies from references to Greek myths to Inuit myths and German novellas.

 What makes Caroline distinct? Her memorable and distinctive style. Whether it be her early works carving stories out of sand with a camera or her later ones working with watercolour paint and finding ways to keep it from drying. There is a noticable and remarkable fluidity that is kept consistent across her works with each motion clearly coreographed. An interesting use of the animation principles are seen in her works with things like the anticipation of movement and the weight of objects being so clear that even in spite of the more unrealistic style of art, the viewer can't help but find a believability within her works. I take a particular enjoyment in her work on The Street, the stirring of the mixing bowl as well as the combing of hair is extremely fascinating to watch for me.

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Caroline Leaf Research

Caroline leaf is a Canadian American filmmaker, animator, director, and artist. She has made many short animations and her work has been recognised around the world. Her animated films are known for storytelling, emotional content and graphic style. Her art is tied to storytelling and to exploring unusual materials that she uses for her drawings and making movement. She started making animated films when she was a student at Radcliffe college in 1968. Her first film 'Sand or Peter and the Wolf' was made with a jar of beach sand and poured into a light box and made black and white silhouettes from it. She moved to Montreal at the invitation of The National Film Board of Canada, a publicly funded Canadian production centre which allowed filmmakers' considerable creative freedom and is famous for its animation films. She worked there as a staff animator and director until 1991

The Street- Directed by Caroline Leaf in 1976

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Animation Skills- Week 1, Caroline Leaf

Canadian-American filmmaker Caroline Leaf was born in 1946 on the 12th of August. Renowned as a great woman animator, her handcrafted animation techniques are known for leaving an impact due to her emphasis on storytelling and emotional content.

Leaf is credited with such works as; Sand or Peter and the Wolf, The Owl who Married a Goose, The Street, and The Metamorphosis of Mr Samsa. As well as 'Odysseus and the Olive Tree' in 2001. Looking at a list of her works leads to a consistent pattern of story adapation that varies from references to Greek myths to Inuit myths and German novellas.

 What makes Caroline distinct? Her memorable and distinctive style. Whether it be her early works carving stories out of sand with a camera or her later ones working with watercolour paint and finding ways to keep it from drying. There is a noticable and remarkable fluidity that is kept consistent across her works with each motion clearly coreographed. An interesting use of the animation principles are seen in her works with things like the anticipation of movement and the weight of objects being so clear that even in spite of the more unrealistic style of art, the viewer can't help but find a believability within her works. I take a particular enjoyment in her work on The Street, the stirring of the mixing bowl as well as the combing of hair is extremely fascinating to watch for me.

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(week 1) caroline leaf research

Born on the 12th of August, 1946, Caroline Leaf is a Canadian-American filmmaker, animator, director, tutor and artist. She is an Academy Award winner for the best animated short film, as well as a BAFTA for the best animated film.

Her style utilises the lightbox, paints and glycerine glass to create her frames in animations. Most notibly, her animated film,��“The Street”. It’s a recollection by Mordecai Richler (of the same name), one of Canada’s best known contemporary writers. The story is of a young boy (Richler) growing up in Jewish quarters of Montreal during the 1930s. This film won an Oscar Award in 1976.

I love the soft textures that the paint creates on the glycerine glass, and the style is very unique, something that I have never seen before. 

However, I do have some questions. How much paint was used throughout the film? Would it have been easier if Caroline Leaf used a spatula tool to apply and remove the paint? If so, would it have removed the whiteboard ink-like texture and make it lose the special effect it had in the original? How many frames were there in total, and over how much time was the film made? In what way was the film made (pose-to-pose, freehand, etc)?

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Caroline Leaf, {1977} The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa

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caroline, my sweet cinnamon bun <3

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