tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170007670756935047.post6444056924762924103..comments2023-11-09T21:41:38.865+00:00Comments on My Medicated Cartoon Life: An even playing fieldBitter Animatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06617537816971588380noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170007670756935047.post-12542692798832761332009-02-14T20:14:00.000+00:002009-02-14T20:14:00.000+00:00Thanks for the link. I hadn't read that before. I'...Thanks for the link. I hadn't read that before. I'm digesting it now. I may have to post about it! Thanks!Bitter Animatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06617537816971588380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170007670756935047.post-17225309750493628432009-02-14T04:33:00.000+00:002009-02-14T04:33:00.000+00:00Just wondering if you read this essay by Aleksandr...Just wondering if you read this essay by Aleksandr Tatarskiy (one of the most important people in Russian animation before his recent death), he mentions some things regarding that:<BR/>http://niffiwan.livejournal.com/9422.html<BR/><BR/>It's in the "Lyrical Retreat" section. Also, I think that the Russian animated series "Smeshariki" is a current exception to the rule. And Aardman's "Shaun the Sheep".Niffiwanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07123324112526405852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170007670756935047.post-82112147521897069572009-01-13T08:15:00.000+00:002009-01-13T08:15:00.000+00:00Not long ago, I would have come to the exact same ...Not long ago, I would have come to the exact same conclusions you did. Unfortunately, the idea of children learning inadvertantly isn't backed up by research - children do learn and television helps form their world view, the problem is that rarely is it educational content they take in and, without very specific, structured educational content, they often jump to unpredictable conclusions on life lessons.<BR/><BR/>Your comment is something I'd love to answer in another post.Bitter Animatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06617537816971588380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170007670756935047.post-76796488122673495342009-01-12T19:23:00.000+00:002009-01-12T19:23:00.000+00:00Your posting reminded me of my all-too-brief stint...Your posting reminded me of my all-too-brief stint as an animator in a VERY small new studio. When I entered I showed some character designs I had made for a greeting card company —which were never printed—that involved cute little gray-like aliens, and also a kind of space dog and a space monkey with crab clams instead of hands. The studio manager liked the characters of the dog and the monkey, and asked me to come up with a small segment that would be included in the studio's presentation video. So the idea I came up with was that the dog had a big lab inside his small space dog house, and from time to time the monkey would come and annoy him with playful pranks—this BTW, was before Dexter's lab, but the concept was basically the same: The dog was like Dexter and the monkey a goofy Diddy.<BR/><BR/>Later a friend of the manager got interested in the characters and wanted to make a children program with them, which would teach the kids math and science. The whole idea tanked mainly because the differences of opinion between this woman and I. She wanted to make an educational program, whereas I was more interested in the entertainment factor; my idea was that the best children programs educated inadvertedly because they were fun to watch to begin with—did someone ever watch Sesame Street because <B>they had to</B>??<BR/><BR/>So in the end the woman got tired of fighting with me and the idea ended up in the trash can; looking back I can't help feeling I should have conceded more, but I was in my early twenties and felt the characters were my personal property, so I didn't want to lose control of them. What if, right?Red Pill Junkiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14738203580562140501noreply@blogger.com