Digibury: Astrid Goldsmith - Alternative methods of animation film production

Astrid Goldsmith

July 9 2014 #Digibury@Digibury

Mock Duck Studios

Alternative methods of animation film production

@mockduckstudios

Alternative methods of animation film production

(How to make a puppet film in your garage)

Overview

• My background and reasons for making stop-motion films

• My process and the importance of collaboration

• Alternative means of funding and distribution

Background

I don't know why these things are always framed as a big dumb cage match: Hand-drawn versus computers, film versus digital. We have over 100 years now of amazing film technology to play with, I don't understand why any artists would want to throw any of their tools out of the box. Many people assume that because I shoot on film and animate on paper I must be doing things the hard way, when in fact my last four movies would have been visually impossible to produce digitally. The only thing that matters is what actually winds up on the big screen, not how you got it there. You could make a cartoon in crayons about a red square that falls in unrequited love with a blue circle, and there wouldn’t be a dry eye in the house if you know how to tell a story.

- Don Hertzfeldt

Commercial model making

Process

Collaboration

Funding and Distribution

• Self-funding • Backers • National/regional arts

funding • Crowd-funding

• Animation festivals/shorts festivals

• Agencies • Self-distributing

Action is the foundational key to all success. - Pablo Picasso

Thank you!

Astrid Goldsmith Mock Duck Studios www.mockduck.co.uk info@mockduck.co.uk @mockduckstudios