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The rainy- rainy Annecy

The last time I visited “Annecy Animation Film Festival”, it was back in 1999.

We were still living in Europe  and not yet in Texas , when I got  a phone call from MTV London and they  congratulated me on being accepted  in Competition for my animation film “Knits of pain”.

I was over the moon, because I was a recent graduate of the animation school and this film was my first professional film which could participate in an international film festival in Competition … and being in competition means having free accommodations.

Why am I saying this?

Because of rainy-rainy Annecy.

Through all years that we were attending the festival, we had torrential rain almost every day . And it made the camping for students so uncomfortable. We couldn’t simply afford a hotel room.

How many times I promised to myself not to do camping again but the same just happened again and again. I actually quite enjoy camping and sleeping while star gazing but I would rather do it on dry days and not wet rainy Junes of Annecy. It is just not a joy

Anyway, on may 30^th1999 I landed in Lyon and took a train to Annecy. I felt myself so lonely this time in comparison to the last trip to Annecy. I eventually found my friends and we started the routine of the festival, such as getting badges and festival catalogues , sitting together on grass and tick the films we wanted to watch and etc.

The days of sunny Annecy were over and it started raining cats and dogs again. But this time I had a peace of mind.

I wished I could take part again in coming festival but maybe next time. Those of you who are lucky enough to visit Annecy next week please reply to this post and drop a few line here with pictures if possible.

Enjoy the festival.

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Winsor McCay

McCay was the son of Robert McKay (later changed to McCay) and Janet Murray McKay; Robert at various times worked as a teamster, a grocer, and a real estate agent. Winsor’s exact place and year of birth are uncertain — he claimed to have been born in Spring Lake, Michigan in 1871, but his gravestone says 1869, and census reports state that he was born in Canada in 1867. He was originally named Zenas Winsor McKay, in honor of his father’s employer, Zenas G. Winsor. He later dropped the name Zenas.

In 1886, McCay’s parents sent him to Cleary’s Business College in Ypsilanti, Michigan to learn to be a businessman. While in Ypsilanti, he also received his only formal art training, from John Goodison of Michigan State Normal College (now known as Eastern Michigan University). Goodison taught him the strict application of the fundamentals of perspective, which he put to significant use later in his career. Goodison, formerly a glass stainer, also influenced McCay’s bold use of color.

In 1889, McCay moved to Chicago, intending to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, but due to lack of money had to find employment instead. He worked for the National Printing and Engraving Company, producing woodcuts for circus and theatrical posters. Two years later, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and went to work as an artist for Kohl and Middleton’s Vine Street Dime Museum. While in Cincinnati he married Maude Leonore Dufour.
McCay’s first major comic strip series was Tales of the Jungle Imps by Felix Fiddle. Forty-three installments were published from January to November of 1903, in the Cincinnati Enquirer. The strip was based on poems by George Randolph Chester, then a reporter and editor at the Enquirer. The stories concerned jungle creatures and the ways that they adapted to a hostile world, with individual titles such as How the Elephant Got His Trunk and How the Ostrich Got So Tall.

His strips Little Nemo and Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend were both set in the dreams of their characters and featured fantasy art that attempted to capture the look and feel of dreams. McCay’s cartoons were never overwhelmingly popular, but always had a strong following because of his expressive graphic style. Newspaper pages were physically much larger in that time and McCay usually had a half a page to work with. For fantasy art in comics, his only rival was Lyonel Feininger, who went on to have a career in the fine arts after his comics days were over.

McCay also created a number of animated short films, in which every single frame of each cartoon (with each film requiring thousands of frames) was hand-drawn by McCay and his assistant which he occasionally had. McCay went on vaudeville tours with his films. He presented lectures and did drawings; then he interacted with his animated films, performing such tricks as holding his hand out to “pet” his animated creations.
Laid out with exquisite detail in a manner that would only be matched during the heights of Walt Disney’s cartoons of the 1930s, the star of McCay’s groundbreaking animated film Gertie the Dinosaur is classified by film and animation historians as the first cartoon character created especially for film to display a unique, realistic “personality”. In the film, Gertie causes trouble and cries when she is scolded, and finally she gives McCay himself a ride on her back as he steps into the movie picture.

In addition to a series of cartoons based on his popular “rarebit” gags, McCay also created The Sinking of the Lusitania, a depiction of the attack on the maritime ship. The cartoon contained a message that was meant to inspire America into joining World War I.

Graphic Identity was the first Blog, which responded to my invitation to have our Blog cross-reviewed –and that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship not only with Graphic Identity but hopefully with all the other members of Blogcatalog as well.

The idea is to share knowledge, to learn from the work of other members and to create a community full of positive and optimistic thinking. The courageous Graphic Identity was the first Blog that rolled up its sleeve and wrote its positive and constructive opinions about my site Animatrick.com.

“No, the journey doesn’t end here.”

By landing on Graphic Identity index page, the first thing which attracts your attention is the Logo. The Altered G very well hints that you are in a technical content page, and the fogy green is an obvious clue for a welcoming invitation.

The navigation is clear at the top and it exists in the form of a graphical rollover. I like the white background which creates a consistency, which in turn keeps all parts together. And two sidebars on the right could be a right place to organize the sitemap.

The Blog could have benefited from the enhanced layout in order to have proper spacing and better visual rest areas.Graphic Identity is a resourceful Blog, which, without a doubt, enhances your visual design experiences with cool features and contents.

“If you would like to have your site reviewed by me please send an email to contact@animatrick.com.

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