Tag: Paul Driessen

Isn’t it a lot of work to make an animation film? An obscure and long forgotten documentary about the production process of Paul Driessen's "The Water People"

Let’s retrieve an obscure and long forgotten video-taped documentary about the making of a Dutch animation film. After all, some of its scenes would surely align smoothly and favourably with Materials in Motion’s current animation artwork conservation thrust! Alas, there was to be a Stately Sting in this would-be Holy Grail tale. Press “Fast Rewind” …

Animation Techniques / Other / Production Process   / / / / / / / / / / / /

Setting a shared agenda Expert Meeting in Eye Collection Centre

Throughout our research project we experienced a lot of enthusiasm and willingness to share ideas and experiences about animation artwork preservation. Now, after we consulted many different experts and visited several archives, we are looking forward to bring some of these experts and representatives of these archives together in a joint meeting at Eye. The …

Animation Artwork / Conservation   / / / / /

Help, why did this paint get sticky? A questionnaire amongst animators

In the animation artwork collection of the EYE Film Museum, we regularly find cels with paint layers that were once sticky and are now stuck. In the stacks of animation artwork, these paint layers have glued themselves to other cels or adjacent papers. When you try to separate them, you run the risk of damaging …

Animation Artwork / Conservation / Materials   / / / / / / /