BSA 106 semester 2 start

Animation directors to consider

Later in the year, I am expected to give a presentation on common themes in a director's body of work. Directors I am considering are:

Gary Trousdale

 Directed Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Byron Howard

Directed Tangled, Bolt and Zootopia

Vicky Jenson

Directed Shrek, Shark Tale and Post Grad 

Genndy Tartakovsky

Directed Hotel Transylvania, Dexters Lab, 2 Stupid Dogs, Samurai Jack, Star Wars Clone Wars, Sym-Bionic Titan

Hayao Miyazaki

Directed  Castle in the Sky in 1986, My Neighbor Totoro in 1988, Kiki's Delivery Service in 1989, and Porco Rosso in 1992 and much more

Don Bluth

 Directed The Secret of NIMH (1982), An American Tail (1986), The Land Before Time (1988), All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), and Anastasia (1997)

Tomm Moore

Directed The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea

Animations from 1930-1950:

Ladislaw Starewicz
Did stop motion of animals standing upright and wearing human clothes and made A Cameraman's Revenge (animated crickets etc.)

Berthold Bartosch
filmed cutout drawings on multiple panes of class in a form of cut-out animation

Antony Gross and Hector Hoppin
Created La Joie de Vivre in 1934 as a form of escapism prior to WWII

Toy Box: Picture Book 1936 Momotaro vs Mickey Mouse
A Japanese-made propaganda cartoon that shows the folk hero Momotaro fighting America, personified by Mickey Mouse

Kenzo Masaoka
created the first Japanese animation with sound in 1933 and the first cel animation in 1934. Got in trouble for making an animation that didn't have propaganda

Oskar Fishinger
Worked in Paramount MGM and Disney. Was a surrealist in Nazi Germany (during a period where Nazis had banned "degenerative" (surrealist or abstract art)), who had renamed their art as "decorative" instead.

Aleksandr Ptushko
Made the New Gulliver in 1935, in contrast with Russia's more realistic trends and propaganda

Ivan Ivanov-Vano
general policy for animation was for childrens folk tales and educational films for children

Norman McLaren
used drawing on film for animations (pioneered by NZer Len Lye), created Dots (1940)

John Halas and Joy Batchelor
Made animated information and British propaganda for WWII

Larkins Studio
made training films for the WWII army. Only made informational films rather than entertainment. Pioneered a simplified animation style that would be used in other animation studios

Wan Brothers
for brothers, pioneers in Chinas animation industry, made films to protest Japanese invasion of China. Inspired by Snow White to make Princess Iron Fan (1941), China's first animated film

Arturo Moreno
made Spains first animated film The Enchanted Sword (1945), which was popular enough locally and abroad to garner a sequel,

Jiri Trnka and Milos Makovec
Made The Emperors Nightingale

Nino Pagot
directed the Dynamite Brothers (1949), which sucked apparently so the production company moved to advertising

Anton Domenghini
Directed the Rose of Baghdad (1949)