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Atama Yama: Auszeichnung Computer Animation / Visual Effects
Yamamura says: "A lot of my work is aimed at children, dialogue is limited, and the voice is small and sweet. Meaning is transferred through the visual. In Atama Yama I collaborated with scriptwriter Shoji Yonemura. Here the words play a big part. Those films may be different, yet there is a theme running through all of them that is about communication. I am sure that if President Bush and Saddam Hussein could understand each other’s position, could really communicate, we would not have the political problems of today. I planned to animate the story of "AtamaYama", a nonsense Rakugo, a comical story telling, hoping to express the theme of identity and social involvement as far as the constant thought about the enigma of world existence. Since the work is a complete access production, I worked on it between my jobs and so it took six years. I am truly grateful that the work is highly valued and acknowledged now. The animations of Atama Yama were created with no 3D-CG guiding or roto-scoping, but with a classic hand-drawn technique on paper. I also drew lights and shadows separately on paper with pencil, scanned them, and combined them in RETAS! Pro, a Japanese multi-level animation software program, to give the characters a 3-D effect. As drawing materials for the outlines of the characters I used watercolor ink pens, oil markers, and color pencils. I had installed RETAS! Pro only. During the month of production, as I was gradually mastering the software, I realised that I was managing to create more material at a faster pace, which was encouraging. Prior to digitising, the production of my material was then, and still is, - analogue. I did not use 3D guide when I made Atama Yama. The system I use for production on my personal computer, a Mac. is extremely simple. I use an application of RETAS! Pro: Traceman for flat materials and scan them. Once I have converted the animation into a movie file I rarely use software to make further enhancements. Adjusting each individual image with Adobe Photoshop is an extension of drawing each image in analogue. I use Adobe Photoshop for color adjustment and masks for compositing. To put timesheets together, compositing, rendering and conversion into movie files, my tool is an application of RETAS! Pro: CoreRETAS. I edit on Final Cut Pro." | |
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