Amy's Movie Projects
Achtung! May 2009: These are old, old, old. I haven't posted anything I've done in the last year.
- Student interviews
- Végétariens
- How Wang-Fo Was Saved
- Micha's Traum (Michael's Dream)
Student interviews (2002)
These short videos show what some of the students in the TAM Department are doing for work and play.
Eric Brown talks about his research self-healing (autonomic) materials.
Quicktime movie, 2:40 minutes.
Daniel Jacobson and his team members built a remote control car and competed in a design competition. (Battlebots!)
Quicktime movie, 3:09 minutes.
Végétariens (2001)
Two bunnies go out to a scary French restaurant.
(Quicktime movie trailer, 160 pixels, 4.6MB, 57 seconds)
The Creepy Maître'd |
(aside) "You made reservations, right...?" |
Asking for a table
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Elegant-sized portions |
How Wang-Fo Was Saved (2003)
"The old painter Wang-Fo and his disciple Ling were wandering along the roads of the Kingdom of Han." |
This is based on Marguerite Yourcenar's version of the Taoist tale, How Wang-Fo Was Saved. Wang-Fo is a master painter in the Kingdom of Han. "It was murmured that Wang-Fo had the power to bring his paintings to life by adding a last touch of color to their eyes. Farmers would come and beg him to paint a watchdog, and the lords would ask him for portraits of their best warriors." He gives a wealthy young man, Ling, the gift of a new vision of the world, and piece by piece Ling sells his estate to buy paint and wander with the Master.
One day they are captured by the soldiers of the Emperor. As the Emperor was growing up, he was kept apart from the people to preserve his sensibilities, and the only view of the world he had was in the paintings of the Master. When the Emperor finally went out into his true kingdom, he saw that it was worthless compared to the paintings. So, he has the Master imprisoned, and will extract one last painting. This last painting is how Wang-Fo is saved.
"They made slow progress because Wang-Fo would stop at night to watch the stars and during the day to observe the dragonflies."
"...he followed with delight the hesitant trail of an ant along the cracks in the wall, and Ling's horror these creatures vanished..." |
Ling studies the expression of a bush, as Wang-Fo compares it to a "young woman letting down her hair to dry." |
"Ling's wife was as frail as a reed, childish as milk, sweet as saliva, salty as tears." |
Micha's Traum (2001)
This one will be fun. The second project in my Maya tutorial is a Jack-in-the-Box. I'm going to make an Mtrott-in-the-Box. The story is: The closed box is in a room full of papers. Michael pops out, and his glasses fling off, without his noticing. He's relieved to be out of the box. He hops over to read some papers, but the words are all blurry. He looks around his head, and then sees the glasses on the floor. (No arms!) Mensch! Then we see a live action Michael wake up in a panic, and then get up to get a drink of water, and walk past his preprints.
My Mtrott-in-the-Box
Michael with some of his preprints.