OILYFILMS

slapped together a make-shift rotoscope in the bunker, thanks to Rick Raxlen (for the idea and guidance) and Irene Bindi, for the light table.

Rotoscoping is a 1920’s animation technique, created by Max Fleischer (according to Wikipedia) It was used in the original Star Wars Trilogy for the lightsabers, and a computerized version was used for Waking Life.

Here’s a little clip of my first encounter with the roto-beast, sloppy sloppy, but so much fun.

Scribbling with pencil crayons brought out the five-year-old in me.

With all the slick computer generated animation out there, teams of animators with million-dollar-computer networks, none of which we can afford, we’ve stepped back in time and started experimenting with 16mm scratch animation on a bunch of old educational films.

The beauty of human error…sweet imperfection.

Those are MLM’s digits in the pic.

The film is an old documentary tossed out by the Greater Victoria Public Library

This is the oilyfilms bunker, an unfinished basement full of antiquated abandoned technology.

8mm, super 8 and 16mm projectors, viewers, splicers and cameras, slide projectors, battered televisions, broken VCRs and thousands of feet of old film, mostly home movies of complete strangers.

Some of it works, most of it doesn’t…I collect it all… compulsively.

This is the 16mm rewind/light table; that’s KD hovering over it with the camera. Thanks to ST for the pic

Now that the oilyfilms blog is officially up-and-running, a tip of the hat to Jimmy at Navigammatron for setting it up, and to Andrew at Allwayshosting for…you guessed it…hosting.