George Studdy
Pioneer in the commercialisation of animation, he created cartoon strips for magazines. His puppy character Bonzo became popular enough to sell merchandise and was commissioned to make a series of animated shorts.
His character Bonzo looks kinda cute but also the eyes are are weirdly human and kinda freaky.
FRANCE
Fernand Leger
Style was influential abstract/ avant-grade animation. Used a mixture of painting on film, stop-frame animation and live action film.
His work weird but kinda cool, very geometric.
GERMANY
Walter Ruttmann
He formulated a theory of abstract cinema, described as painting with time. Made Lichespiel Opus 1, then made Opus 2,3 and 4. He worked on Lotte Reinger's film The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Backed the rise of Hitler and died as a war photographer from wounds.
His work is weird, looks like a Windows screensaver.
Lotte Reiniger
Created The Adventures of Prince Achmed. Used cutout silhouette style and was the first film to use a form of multiple plane camera to give 2D animation a felling of depth.
All orginal copies were destroyed during the bombing of Berlin. A print was found in the British film Archive, but due to the orginal colours being hand printed it was unable to be produced/ Later a instructions were found and a restored copy was made in 1970 then further restored in 1998.
Her work looks quite cool, the silhouettes are complex and interesting to look at.
Hans Ritcher
Befriended a Swedish animator Viking Eggeling. Made 3 abstract films of minimalist animated geometric shapes called Rythmus 21, 23 and 25.
Produced Film Study
Combined live action with animation and used more advanced camera tricks to overlay patterns and used focal properties of the lens to blur and smear imagery.
His work was strange and not like the animation you would typically think off. His shapes animation doesn't have much of anything, but then he creates even more weird stuff, with floating eyeballs. He is an odd dude for sure.
GERMANY/SWEDEN
Viking Eggeling
Left Sweden and his early experiments where funded by Germany film studio UFA who supported avant-garde/ UFA created propaganda for the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s.
Eggling believed art should encompass political, ethical and scientific ideologies.
He made the minor classic of abstract films, diagonal Symphony
Like most abstract films, its weird. his work is weird. It looks like a screensaver.
These pioneers had weird and strange work apart from Lotte, who's work I enjoyed and though it was interesting. All abstract and quite similar to each-other.
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