15 Pound Pink Productions’ president is a cat. And its product is death. Ten years ago the company’s short film about a bad day for death called Mr. Reaper’s Very Bad Morning was supposed to be seven minutes long. It’s now over 20. Will it ever be finished? Also, take a look at the interactive end of the animation business – a snowboarding video game that draws every bit of bandwidth it can so the kids can have “more stuff.”
Subjects: Art and Design
-
Animation in Multimedia
The program takes students through the elements of creating a successful animation. Beginning with the various methods of creating an animation, the program then explores the stages and aspects of animations, including character development, backgrounds, adding sound and voice and the use of wire frame in 3D work. We look at the various roles in an animation team, including producers, directors, computer technicians, artists and voice actors and some applications of animation such as computer games, advertisements and film.
-
Optical Illusions: How to Create Them
Sneak behind the big top and meet the freaks. Astonishing animation, memorable characters and the Residents’ warped sensibilities combine to create a new kind of interactive fiction. (Windows/Macintosh format)
-
ArtPrints – Grade 4
Includes one set of ten (10) 22″ x 28″ art prints that are not Mounted or Laminated. Art prints include: I and the Village by Marc Chagall; The Banjo Lesson by Henry Tanner; Interior with Eggplants by Henri Matisse; Les Sables d’Olonne by Albert Marquet; Dempsey and Firpo by George Bellows; Hot Springtime by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff; Cypress Trees by Vincent Van Gogh; Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci; Pot of Flowers with Pears by Paul Cezanne; Plaza After the Rain by Paul Cornoyer.
-
ArtPrints – Grade 5
Includes one set of ten (10) 22″ x 28″ art prints that are not Mounted or Laminated. Art prints include: Rocky Mountains by Currier & Ives; Fur Traders on the Missouri by George Bingham; My Gems by William Michael Harnett; Corryell’s Ferry 1776 by Joseph Pickett; Breezing Up by Winslow Homer; Virgin Forest by Henri Rousseau; From the Lake No.1 by Georgia O’Keeffe; Dismounted by Frederic Remington; Boy with Tire by Hughie Lee-Smith; Seven A.M. by Edward Hopper.
-
ArtPrints – Grade 6
Includes one set of ten (10) 22″ x 28″ art prints that are not Mounted or Laminated. Art prints include: Redwoods by Ansel Adams; View of Toledo by El Greco; Nightwatch by Rembrandt van Rijn; Trains de Soir by Paul Delvaux; Tulip Fields by Claude Monet; The Open Window by Pierre Bonnard; She-Ba by Romare Bearden; Portrait of a Woman by Pablo Picasso; Poster-Moulin Rouge by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; Beaded Crown by Yoruba Peoples (Africa)
-
ArtPrints – Grade 7
Includes one set of ten (10) 22″ x 28″ art prints that are not Mounted or Laminated. Art prints include: The Brooklyn Bridge by Joseph Stella; Peaceful Harbor by Henry Gasser; Mrs. Kuerner by Andrew Wyeth; Summertime by Romare Bearden; The Coming Storm by Wassily Kandinsky; Approaching a City by Edward Hopper; Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer; Man with Helmet by Rembrandt van Rijn; Queen Elizabeth I by Nicholas Hilliard; the Scream by Edvard Munch.
-
ArtPrints – Grade 8
Includes one set of ten (10) 22″ x 28″ art prints that are not Mounted or Laminated. Art prints include: The Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks; In the Mountains by Albert Bierstadt; Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol; The Gleaners by Jean Francois Millet; Combination Concrete by Stuart Davis; The Flame by Frida Kahlo; Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre Auguste Renoir; The Domino Players by Horace Pippin; Retroactive I by Robert Rauschenberg; Waiting for the Stage by Richard Woodville.
-
ArtPrints – Kindergarten
Includes one set of ten (10) 22″ x 28″ mounted and laminated art prints. Art prints for this grade include: Dancing at the Louvre by Faith Ringgold; Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh; Viaducts by Paul Klee; Deer in the Forest I by Franz Marc; Blue Girl Reading by August Macke; Self Portrait by Henri Rousseau; El Vendedor by Diego Rivera; Mains aux Fleurs by Pablo Picasso; Going to Church by William H. Johnson; Home Thanksgiving by Currier & Ives
-
ArtPrints – Grade 1
Includes one set of ten (10) 22″ x 28″ mounted and laminated art prints. Art prints for this grade include: Don Manuel Osorio by Francisco Goya; Snap the Whip by Winslow Homer; Sinbad the Sailor by Paul Klee; The White Dot by Wassily Kandinsky; Harvester’s Meal by Pieter Brueghel; Mother and Child by Pablo Picasso; Enamel Saucepan by Pablo Picasso; Sunflowers Quilting Bee at Arles by Faith Ringgold; Mother’s Helper by Diego Rivera; Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh.