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#What does this term mean in the context of cartooning: naturalism?
 
#What does this term mean in the context of cartooning: naturalism?
#Which filmmaker's cartoons were associated with naturalism? What technological and aesthetic techniques did he use to achieve this naturalism? What technological device did he use that is also used in A-Ha's music video ([http://tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/AHa-TakeOnMe.php view video])? (A digital version of the same device is used in ''Son of Zorn'' [2016].)
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#Which filmmaker's cartoons were associated with naturalism? What technological and aesthetic techniques did he use to achieve this naturalism? What technological device did he use that is also used in A-ha's music video ([https://vimeo.com/345100481 view video])? (A digital version of the same device is used in ''Son of Zorn'' [2016].)
 
#*[https://youtu.be/8xd-wcmqfp0 View a history of this device.]
 
#*[https://youtu.be/8xd-wcmqfp0 View a history of this device.]
 
#How has cartooning balanced naturalism with abstraction?
 
#How has cartooning balanced naturalism with abstraction?
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#How has cartooning balanced abstraction with naturalism?
 
#How has cartooning balanced abstraction with naturalism?
 
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File:Fig11-11 Gerald copy.jpg|alt=Screen shot from ''Gerald McBoing Boing''.|Screen shot from ''Gerald McBoing Boing''. [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/GeraldMcBoing-Boing_480x360.php View video.]
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File:Fig11-11 Gerald copy.jpg|alt=Screen shot from ''Gerald McBoing Boing''.|Screen shot from ''Gerald McBoing Boing''. [https://vimeo.com/345082178 View video.]
 
File:Bob's Burgers 20131110qq00 00 38qq.jpg|alt=Screen shot from ''Bob's Burgers''.|Screen shot from ''Bob's Burgers''.  
 
File:Bob's Burgers 20131110qq00 00 38qq.jpg|alt=Screen shot from ''Bob's Burgers''.|Screen shot from ''Bob's Burgers''.  
 
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#How do made-for-TV cartoons differ from made-for-movie-theater cartoons?
 
#How do made-for-TV cartoons differ from made-for-movie-theater cartoons?
 
#*What was the first made-for-TV animated cartoon? When?
 
#*What was the first made-for-TV animated cartoon? When?
#*What aspects of made-for-TV cartoons does ''The Flintstones'' exemplify? ([http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Flintstones.php View video.])
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#*What aspects of made-for-TV cartoons does ''The Flintstones'' exemplify? ([https://vimeo.com/345099661 View video.])
 
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File:Fig11-16 CrusaderRabbit06.jpg|alt=Screen shot from ''Crusader Rabbit''.|Screen shot from ''Crusader Rabbit''. [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/CrusaderRabbit.php View video.]
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File:Fig11-16 CrusaderRabbit06.jpg|alt=Screen shot from ''Crusader Rabbit''.|Screen shot from ''Crusader Rabbit''. [https://vimeo.com/345098010 View video.]
 
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#*How is that difference part of the production process?
 
#*How is that difference part of the production process?
 
#*How is that difference evident in how the animation looks?
 
#*How is that difference evident in how the animation looks?
#*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/SimpsonsHomer3.php View ''Simpsons'' 3D animation.]
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#*[https://vimeo.com/347836559 View ''Simpsons'' 3D animation.] (Animation by Pacific Data Images.)[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3dkwgb/the-team-that-brought-homer-simpson-into-the-third-dimension]
 
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File:Fig11-26 Simpsons 000013.jpg|alt=Screenshot from ''The Simpsons''.|Screenshot from ''The Simpsons''.
 
File:Fig11-26 Simpsons 000013.jpg|alt=Screenshot from ''The Simpsons''.|Screenshot from ''The Simpsons''.
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*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Animation.php Animation illustrations]
 
*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Animation.php Animation illustrations]
 
*[[wikipedia:Treehouse of Horror VI#Homer.C2.B3|Wikipedia article on "Homer<sup>3</sup>"]].
 
*[[wikipedia:Treehouse of Horror VI#Homer.C2.B3|Wikipedia article on "Homer<sup>3</sup>"]].
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*Jason Koebler, "The Team That Brought Homer Simpson into the Third Dimension," ''Vice'', https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3dkwgb/the-team-that-brought-homer-simpson-into-the-third-dimension
  
 
==External videos==
 
==External videos==

Revision as of 16:04, 9 October 2019

Groups 5 & 1

  1. What does this term mean in the context of cartooning: naturalism?
  2. Which filmmaker's cartoons were associated with naturalism? What technological and aesthetic techniques did he use to achieve this naturalism? What technological device did he use that is also used in A-ha's music video (view video)? (A digital version of the same device is used in Son of Zorn [2016].)
  3. How has cartooning balanced naturalism with abstraction?

Groups 6 & 2

  1. What does this term mean in the context of cartooning: abstraction?
  2. What studio was associated with (somewhat) abstract cartooning? What aesthetic techniques did it use to achieve this abstraction?
  3. How has cartooning balanced abstraction with naturalism?

Group 3

  1. How do made-for-TV cartoons differ from made-for-movie-theater cartoons?
    • What was the first made-for-TV animated cartoon? When?
    • What aspects of made-for-TV cartoons does The Flintstones exemplify? (View video.)

Group 4

  1. How does digital (CGI) animation differ from conventional cell animation? In particular:
    • How is that difference part of the production process?
    • How is that difference evident in how the animation looks?
    • View Simpsons 3D animation. (Animation by Pacific Data Images.)[1]

All Groups

  1. Describe the efficient mode of production that developed for cartoon production in the 1930s. What were its basic (1) technological and (2) economic characteristics? That is, how was cartoon production organized so that it could be profitable?

Bibliography

  1. Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. Third edition. NY: Routledge, 2011.

External links

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