SANDANIMATION

Other particles can be animated such as colored beads or salt

Sand is the most popular choice for particle animation

Sand lends itself to metamorphosis

Economical

Sand animators often work in black( light blocked by sand) and white (light revealed by sand)

However, a variety of tones are achievable due to sands translucent nature at various densities

SAND ANIMATION

• Gisele and Ernest Ansorge

• Swiss husband and wife team

• Most accomplished artists in the field of sand animation

• Utilized imperfections in the process to add energy to their work adding a secondary level of action to every movement

• Followed impulse of the moment and never reworked a line

• Used combs, brushes, bits of cardboard to move sand

• Used various sizes of sand for extreme fluidity

Caroline Leaf

SAND ANIMATORS

• Gisele and Ernest Ansorge

• Films shot on one or more layers of opalescent glass

• The Ravens, 1967

• Fantasmic, 1969

• The Chameleon Cat, 1975

• Caroline Leaf

• Film:

• The Owl Who Married a Goose, 1974

• Notice the use of translucent nature of the sand

• Notice how she blocks the light with the sand or reveals the light with the sand

• Notice textural values of bird feathers created with the sand

• Notice how camera moves are implied through animation and not actual camera motion

SAND ANIMATION SCREENING