Terry Gilliam's Do It Yourself Animation Show

[ThePoetech]

I don't know how this was recommended to my youtube page (or why), but I am SO GLAD IT WAS.

This is awesome. So great. For morons like me.

[JoonaRuusuvuori]

@ThePoetech Must be your name.. I make poems and poem animations, so, it figures.

[robbiejohnson2011]

Christmast cards!



[lot24]

Terry Gilliam is such a neurotic person. You can see that here as well as anything else he's done. BUT, he's a master of the arts. And it's hard to give him the criticism Hollywood has forced upon him.

[luke123456789luke1]

@lot24 gdfgfd

[ShinjiL]

Question : how do shot from above the table always keeping the exact same position?

[JoonaRuusuvuori]

@ShinjiL With camera stand and not falling on to it.

[ShinjiL]

@JoonaRuusuvuori are there special camera stands to do this ? I mean, you would need to have your camera with the lens pointing straight down.

[JoonaRuusuvuori]

@ShinjiL Oh yes, you mean right above.. I've been thinking about having that kind of thing, or building it, but then I've noticed, that even if camera isn't right above, one can do decent looking animation. Drawback is that when the camera has to be so close to the table, it is kind of in front of the maker. But in an end result, I can't see difference between animation done from straight above and one done from quite above.

[ShinjiL]

@JoonaRuusuvuori check out this video, Quirino Cristiani (one of the inventors of this process) at work. He seems to have the stand we are talking about.

/watch?v=a8rsAI7GsnY&feature=r­elated

[JoonaRuusuvuori]

@ShinjiL I think I was talking about little bit smaller ones.. :)

[WorfSonofMoog]

@ShinjiL It's probably easier to just get an angled table. You're taping the pieces down anyway.

[JoonaRuusuvuori]

@WorfSonofMoog An angled table... that's genious. Or I'm a simpleton. Why have I never ever thought of that...

[armandofonseca87]

@ShinjiL Glass. Watch the whole thing, for Christ's sake.

[ShinjiL]

@armandofonseca87 armando, no entendiste bien mi pregunta probablemente.

[CaptainPinhead]

I wonder if he would collaborate with anyone nowadays; if he's even still putting his amazing talent to use? He better not be living it up due to the fame. You hear me Terry Gilliam? DON'T be so LAZY that you deny humanity your gift.

[Honestinwilkesbarre]

@CaptainPinhead He's not denying or being lazy. Last I knew, he's producing and directing movies.

At the moment, I can only think of an older film, Brazil. But, there are more recent ones.

[CaptainPinhead]

@Honestinwilkesbarre yeah I remember now. Like I said, i shouldn't have watched this high.

[letsgetcrunktv3000]

@CaptainPinhead He does directing mostly now

[CaptainPinhead]

@letsgetcrunktv3000 oh yeah. I shouldn't watch things high, i forget important things.

[CaptainPinhead]

THis is AMAZING. He is a GENIUS! But why is he nervous? Shy with the camera or what, and if so, why, did he not yet have massive fans of his cartoons? Again I arrive in the timeline too late. He's old, emo phillips is getting old too...It feels a bit like i landed in the wrong time in history...

[FelipeFECTM]

My brain wants to eat Terry Gilliam.

[americandiscocrash]

it is apparent that the key to good cut-out animation is to first and foremost be terry gilliam. all of these bits are so freakishly simple in concept, yet his presentation makes them five notches above what anyone else would consider when presented with the same material. taking a christmas card and having the 3 wisemen chase the north star--that is freakin' genius.

[NoEtherification]

Espectacular



[cookie123456789012]

I thought this was Bob Godfrey

[DeAvonturenVanHenk]

I need a damn camera... I only have an HTC with a camera and a PS2 eyetoy camera..

[mArt2011funflydesign]

I think some of this is a direct copy from the Monty Python series on TV. Otherwise a very good presentation.

[JoonaRuusuvuori]

@mArt2011funflydesign I think it must be, because Terry Gilliam did the animations for Monty Python.

[Honestinwilkesbarre]

@mArt2011funflydesign No, it's not a DIRECT copy. That is Terry. And it appears to be for an interview. Probably or television and probably from sometime in the late 70's. Most likely while Python was still in production, because that is when he was most publicly popular.

[vai82]

He is so great, he kind of reminds me of Noel Fielding here for some reason.

[RyanMatthias]

Cool, just got boring after a while. Whoops.

[LuneyTune72]

It kind of sounds like the British accent rubbed off on him.

[Honestinwilkesbarre]

@LuneyTune72 Well, he was living in Britain at the time. I'm told you pick up the local dialect when you move away from your birthplace.

I always liked him as Potsy in "Holy Grail".

[JimmersThomas]

Don't think I'm exaggerating if I say this is the best video I've ever seen on YouTube.

[JoonaRuusuvuori]

@JimmersThomas ... Well, then I'm happy to have uploaded it.

[huttmutt1]

@JoonaRuusuvuori Hi very interesting to see this after all this time. Myself and fellow students at St Martin's School of Art (as it was then), contributed short examples of different techniques of animation specially made for this show at their request. They were all based on the nursery rhyme "Little Miss Muffet Sat on her Tuffet...etc." I did one which was broadcast, based on a Mondrian/Ben Nicolson style painting all cut out abstract squares. Do you have a recording of this as well?

[JoonaRuusuvuori]

@huttmutt1 Sorry, wish I had, but only this one I've been able to find.

[wonderfulcat]

@huttmutt1 I've just uploaded the episode with your animation in; do it yourself film animation show ep2 pt1

[swinch2187]

Is this a Bob Godfrey show with Gilliam as a guest?

Godfrey seems to be just sitting there watching! lol

[savagecabage]

lol some ledgend! /watch?v=D8WmvMCTW_g

[savagecabage]

Life of Brian Terry Gilliam :

....and the bezan shall be huge and black, and the eyes there of reeeeeeed with the blood of living creeeatures, and the whoooooore of Babylon shall ride forth on a three-headed serpent, and throughout the lands, there'll be a great rubbing of parts! Yeeeeeeeah........

[pathduck]

*shows photo of Nazis" - "These are amazingly funny people here" :D

[sparkey989]

he had to be the animator of those AON music videos.

[TheVTP]

i see Breastesess

[bobcartoonist]

Brilliant. Thanks for showing this.

[yippee2000]

what talent! and what a pity that so many of today just have no appreciation for all the work that goes into this and all the subtlety and genius!

[MsHenryD]

TErry is THE greatest

[CAPTAlNSTEWPID]

Inspiring.

[mike6740]

I feel like the first step to doing this type of animation is to take fistful of acid

[rsranger2201]

blue stahli sent me

[hulllewis0817]

Genius and hilarious

[VisionofOrion]

Creative genuis and one of my all time favorite movie makers.

Ashame he never got around to doing "Good Omens" he tried for years to get it constantly getting the cold shoulder from Hollywood. I remember reading about how he was frustrated that back about ten years ago he wanted Johnny Depp to play Crowley and Hollywood as dismissive and said that Depp only did foreign films and that was about it(chocolat was just released) Of course then came along Pirates...

[HCShannon]

Finally, the answers are revealed, after years of hearing! "It was probably drugs!"

[AngelusDlion]

@6:26 is that richard nixon?

[gorgeousaur]

Terry Gilliam is a genius and a madman.

[alinecaldwell]

brilliant, thank you for posting this.



[Plexipixel]

I adore this.

[fitzcostudios]

as a 3ds mx use i find this incredibly useful in my works

[clever1gold]

way much better than photoshop! or flash

[clever1gold]

way much better than photoshop!

[JoonaRuusuvuori]

@clever1gold Terry Gilliam beats photoshop 6-0

[HCShannon]

@JoonaRuusuvuori He uses Photoshop now!

[djgiga]

@clever1gold you would need photoshop and after effects.

[atomichawg]

This was very interesting. Thanks for posting it!

[dankot87]

WELL I'LL BE DAMNED!

TERRY GILLIAM LOOKS JUST LIKE WILLEM DAFOE!

or vice versa.....

[fitzcostudios]

@dankot87 get some glasses ur blind

[josephanimation]

A master a work

[nevilleanimusic]

Genuius then, genius now.

[HecmarJayam]

Thank you. Educational and inspiring at the same time. Terry is as charming as usual.

[Mesarphelous]

This is real outsider art.

[derschwarzenadler]

One of my childhood inspirations in art. Love you Terry!

[stelos485]

I watched this show when i was a kid (BBC1) . Gilliam is always an inspiring artist.

Get out there and make it yourself is what i learnt from this show.

It was true then as it is today.

[lizzieenglish]

absolutely amazing.

[infamouskirch]

this is the greatest thing I've ever watched.

[psynno1]

Real imagination - animators today should learn from this.

[anman20]

There Are Boobs at 0:07 ._.

[inSpeKKter]

@anman20 And 0:12

[anman20]

@inSpeKKter xD i thought this video would be down by now, i reported it August 6th 2011

[JoonaRuusuvuori]

@anman20 Well thank you, I bow and appreciate for your tryfulness.. However, it just got age restricitions due to policeman paperdoll having female boobs.. I think people who would like to animate and do not own a youtube account are not so very thankful for not being able to learn from this video.. Where you bored or something? I think internet is so full of very lonely/ very infantile people to actually do such things on their time as flag videoes that are put here to be for common good!

[anman20]

@inSpeKKter xD i thought this video would be down by now, i reported it August 6th 2011

[Squareheaddude]

This was wonderful, thank you for uploading this.

[onwebcameron]

Please post more of this lost, excellent series if you have them, it inspired future generations of Animators in the UK, and is much sought after. Dick Williams, Stan Hayward, Ron Geeson and of course Bob Godfrey the series' host and animator/teacher himself, all contribute. Great to see it again I'm not sure the nudity and cartoon violence would be shown on a Sunday morning on the BBC nowadays though, nor would using a scalpel come to that! But us kids were not adversely affected by that.

[JoonaRuusuvuori]

@onwebcameron Thanks for the background information.. Will see if they can be found, doubt it though.

[battymcdougall]

Excellent video.

Cheers!

[moeljayer]

Thank you so much for posting this!!! Would be great, if we could see the Dick Williams segment too from that show :)

[mcteeth]

i want to tattoo this to the inside of my brain.

[swingAE86]

overlooked monty python member?

[supermomo]

Wonderful!

[proceedapathy]

Nice, we need shows like this today! Thankfully we have the internet.

[NobleDesignMedia]

So great. I wonder if dear Terry has done more educational films like this.

[flashcartoonstudios]

A fellow born Minnesotan turn cartoonist!

[MrFox1231]

honestly miss clssic comedy on the TV :(

[skaaven]

Thank you a lot for posting this amazing video!! :_)

[jacobsteel]

wow! :D

[samthor]

classic stuff... although today you might get sued for copyright infringement if you just took pictures out of books/magazines

[JoonaRuusuvuori]

@samthor Nope. Doesn't work that way. Pictures are free to use.

[retrovideofestival]

@JoonaRuusuvuori Yeh, "Fair use" :)

[samthor]

@JoonaRuusuvuori how do you figure? Pictures printed in books and magazines are copyrighted to the author/publisher/photographer? consider shepard fairey's copyright troubles using photos of Obama taken by the AP press...

[JoonaRuusuvuori]

@samthor I thought it was anyway okay to combine pictures to make your own picture, collage technique, part of the art history and art practise already, but now I found while surfing that (atleast in my country) if the picture reaches somekind of treshold of being it's own piece of art, then it's okay, but this is ofcourse a Very ambiguous thing.. But anyway, I say fuck them, my art is my own the very minute I make dead picture come alive.. If someone forbids it, I will be criminal then.

[occfilms]

@JoonaRuusuvuori

not entirely true...at all

[JoonaRuusuvuori]

@occfilms Oh you're no fun anymore!

[laskfarvortok1]

2011 and large format magazines like these have all but disappeared

[walkerk19]

I love his works! The jokes are priceless!

[thedtrain8]

This video is priceless. It's amazing how these techniques are still used in Pshop to make animated gifs and such. The man is and was a visionary. It's a shame Hollywood essentially hates him. JK Rowling wanted him to direct Harry Potter but the studios wouldn't let it happen. It's a shame.

[motosuwaurbyz]

@thedtrain8

no offense, but thank god they didn't let him..

[jeffgoldblumfanclub]

Awesome.

[ratphink]

15mins of pure GOLD!

[sylvainbermudes]

Very interesting and rare document ! Thx for posting this ;)



[greenbody]

Wow !