Uploaded May 2014 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
FSU Assistant Professor in Art, Rob Duarte, taught a course titled Experimental Animation in the Fall of 2013. For one of the semester's projects, students selected a 35mm motion picture trailer and proceeded to use various direct animation techniques - including scratching, drawing, bleaching - to transform their trailer. The students' finished projects ranged from slight manipulation of the trailers' content using markers and knives, to completely removing the image and screen printing on the blank film stock. The films were assembled and screened by members of the class at Movies 8 in Tallahassee, FL - the only theatre in the area projecting 35mm. These videos were captured by pointing a digital video camera at the screen, so a couple of them suffered from weird focus and one shows flickering that didn't exist on the big screen. Thanks to Hal and everyone at Movies 8 for allowing us access to the theatre during and after the semester. (Best movie theatre in Tallahassee - http://www.movies8tallahassee.com) Thank you to the students for enduring the bloody fingers and sore eyes.
FSU Assistant Professor in Art, Rob Duarte, taught a course titled Experimental Animation in the Fall of 2013. For one of the semester's projects, students selected a 35mm motion picture trailer and proceeded to use various direct animation techniques - including scratching, drawing, bleaching - to transform their trailer. The students' finished projects ranged from slight manipulation of the trailers' content using markers and knives, to completely removing the image and screen printing on the blank film stock. The films were assembled and screened by members of the class at Movies 8 in Tallahassee, FL - the only theatre in the area projecting 35mm. These videos were captured by pointing a digital video camera at the screen, so a couple of them suffered from weird focus and one shows flickering that didn't exist on the big screen. Thanks to Hal and everyone at Movies 8 for allowing us access to the theatre during and after the semester. (Best movie theatre in Tallahassee - http://www.movies8tallahassee.com) Thank you to the students for enduring the bloody fingers and sore eyes.
