The Society for Animation Studies (SAS) is a worldwide network of animation scholars. At the recent SAS conference at the University of Padua the importance of animation preservation was widely recognized: many scholars use animation films and archives for research in one form or another. In the presentations of historian Donald Crafton and preservation specialist Ron …
An attentive reader recognised the brand of the previous post as MECANORMA™, a French brand known for their dry transfer lettering, but less known for their self-adhesive foils. And they made normatape® : a smooth uniform self adhesive line on a roll! It almost makes you regret we now have Adobe Illustrator.
Today we found a fraction of a brand logo and a partial batch number on one of the self-adhesive films stuck on a cel. We found this beautiful color wheel between miscellaneous artwork by Gerrit van Dijk (1938 – 2012). It came without any context in a blank brown envelop. Luckily, the stripes in red, white …
Self-adhesive plastic foils, transparent sheets, tapes, markers. If a material is time-saving, inexpensive, easy to use, readily available and has a contemporary appeal, you can be assured it has been fully exploited by artists and designers. During our condition survey of the animation artwork in the collection of the EYE Film Museum (material predominantly from the …
In the 70s and 80s Dutch filmmakers Jacques Verbeek and Karin Wiertz experimented with a wide variety of animation techniques and materials. Read more about the artwork collection at the EYE filmmuseum website.
