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Alexander Bezumov (Soviet Russian 1926-82), Frosty Morning, ca 1971, Oil on canvas
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I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?
Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.
Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).
But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?
The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:
They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣
That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.
That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.
@transparent-plastic-robotgirl check it out
omg that's cool as heck!!! 🌸
Similarly, the "wireframe" imagery of NYC in Escape From New York was a bunch of building models painted black and outlined in reflective green tape.
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Dwight Baird (Canadian, b. 1957, lives and works in Montreal), The Aloneness of Winter, 2023. Acrylic on wood panel, 10 × 15 × 1 in. | 25.4 × 38.1 × 2.5 cm. (Source: ArtWise, Brooklyn)
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I once had a plan to read at least one classic novel from (almost) every country, I keep forgetting about it but I really should do it, I usually end up enjoying them
Anyone has any non-western recommendations?
This was getting a bit out of hand with people sending asks instead of commenting, so I compiled everything that was sent to me under the cut. The rest of the recommendations are in the comments as usual. Thank you all for the recs!
Ok, inspired by @toadlett, I started compiling these in a google doc
And I saw that there are many lists online of a similar kind, but as I'm mostly interested in classical literature rather than modern, and also as I'd like to prioritize the books that have been recommended to me rather than ones I find online, I'll continue to curate this list. Thank you again! ☺️
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hello, I just saw your book post and I have a couple recs I read this past year:
- Le cœur à rire et à pleurer: souvenirs de mon enfance (1999, Guadeloupe) by Maryse Condé, from Guadeloupe (in english translated as Tales From the Heart: True Stories From My Childhood)
- The God of Small Things (1997, India) by Arundhati Roy, from India.
- Dusklands (1974, South Africa) by J. M. Coetzee, from South Africa.
- anything by Zoë Wicomb, I read a few of her short stories and loved them, also from South Africa.
- Country of my Skull (1998, South Africa) by Antjie Krog, from South Africa.
- 飼育; Shiiku (1957, Japan) by Kenzaburō Ōe, from Japan (translated as "The Catch" or "Prize Stock"). I also by him a bit of Hiroshima Notes (1965), and honestly I've been told that most of his works are very good and worth a read.
- 名人; Meijin (1972, Japan) by Yasunari Kawabata (translated as The Master of Go), also another author I've been told has many great works.
- 憂國（憂国); Yūkoku (1961, Japan) by Yukio Mishima (translated as "Patriotism")
- Epic of Sundiata (translated into french and written down by Djibril Tamsir Niane in 1960), Mali, west Africa.
- 源氏物語; Genji Monogatari (early 11th century, Japan) by Murasaki Shikibu (translated as The Tale of Genji)
ohhh, so many! Thank you! :D
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you might want to try reading some of katherine mansfield’s short stories! when i think of classic literature from aotearoa new zealand she’s the first author that comes to mind :D
Thank you!
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ok so not a novel but i do actually have a really, really good recommendation for yiddish in translation that i completely spaced to mention the other day: joachim neugrochel's "the dybbuk, and the yiddish imagination: a haunted reader", which features s. ansky's "the dybbuk" (one of the most famous works of the yiddish stage, which was also the culmination of ansky's work as an ethnographer and folklorist), but also contains a bunch of other material that he presents to help contextualise it. joachim neugroshchel is, imo, the best translator to have ever lived, and that particular book is a great example as to why i feel that way! whatever you do pick up to read for yiddish, i cannot recommend highly enough that you find versions translated by joachim neugroschel (not to mention all the other languages he worked in! dude was a serious polyglot.), he does such a stunning job and talks about it in his commentaries so elegantly that it kind of completely revolutionized how i think about literary translation in general.
Ohhh that is a great recommendation! I need to admit I’m usually a bit careless when it comes to translations (I think it’s a habit from reading too much obscure stuff, often I struggle to find even one copy of my desired book haha), so having that recommendation is very useful to me :D Thank you!
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