Paint-on-Glass is a very special and lavish kind of animation: a glass plate lit from above or below is coated with gouache paint mixed with a few drops of glycerine so the paint does not dry. The drawings are then made onto it directly under the camera, which records them frame-by-frame. This imparts a soft and flowing style to the film.
Caroline Leaf is one of the Masters in this technique: her film the street was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. In this Workshop, she will be introducing participants to the special features of painting-on-glass and to the working methods entailed. At an individual workstation, each participant will be asked to animate a film of his or her own. This hands-on Workshop is scheduled to last three days, from 10.00 to 16.00, thus leaving enough time for the Fantoche Festival events.
We will splice together the resulting sequences and screen them, under the auspices of the Fantoche event, on Sunday at noon.
Samples of paint-on-glass animation: the street (Caroline Leaf, Canada 1976), miramare (Michaela Müller, Switzerland/Croatia 2009), my love (Alexander Petrov, Russia 2006)
Caroline Leaf
Caroline Leaf has had a long career in animation starting when she was a student at Harvard University. Her animation techniques include beach sand, wet paint and etching images in the soft emulsion of exposed film. For 20 years, she worked as an animator/director at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal. Caroline has received many film awards and honors including an Oscar nomination. She has taught at Harvard University, Konstfack in Sweden, and at the National Film and Television School in England.
For more detailed info see www.carolineleaf.com
