The Good Old DaysI remember cartoons in two senses. First, of course, involves the childhood double whammy of Saturday morning extravaganzas and the Disney epics from long before I was born up through the mid 80’s. This was before the era of digital animation. I was a fan of many of them and would watch them whenever I could. The second involves a small group of visual artists, painters and such, that I maintained friendships with who started exploring computer animation back in the early 1990’s as a way to basically embrace, by incorporating, modern technology into their artistic souls - I think. Disney and Pixar were just starting to make animated films using computers as well. Due to where I was in my life at that time I was not very interested as an artist or as a voyeur.
Recent Explorations
I have recently been intrigued to build a small animated film. I’m not sure what inspired me other than the interesting idea of adapting existing sounds for other purposes. I starting seeing images in my mind's eye based on certain audio clips and snippets. I then decided it would be fun to build a film. I decided that I would, as I do, use whatever sources were available. The key was to find, not develop, but find the images, therefore builkd a “found image” kind of animation and using my extant software programs. I also thought it would be fun to play around with style and subject. I’m pretty much trying to create a piece that plays as a form of French Revolution Propaganda. Chances are this will not convey, which is fine, it is after all a starting point.
Allons mourir dans l'ouest
This is the intentionally pretentious title for my animated film short. It means, in French, essentially: Let’s Go West to Die. This means the West as in the USA as opposed to wagon trains and whiskey jugs and outlaws and cattle – or does it?
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The "West," where the Enlightenment is in death throes with Christianism.
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