In this week’s session, we have been introduced the concept of the animation auteur in the class:
Looking at films or animations directed by a specific director makes it easier to understand what could make an Auteur. They can be built up by the director’s vision through the mise-en-scene mixed up with the genre, which audiences can then identify.
One of my favourite auteurs is the film and animation created by Tim Burton, all of the characters within his design or direction have a specific type of make-up on their faces, a gothic style of costume, and structured by a wacky story. Below are some of the examples within the horror genre:
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Beetlejuice (1988), and Frankenweenie (2012).
In the after-session reading, I concentrated on how fine art inspires animation techniques and exploration in material ways, and how animation could modernise the former. for example, the film The Tale of Tales (1979) used a lot of Rembrandt lighting to indicate the character’s journey in its set: