"Hail, Poetry!" animated at M.I.T.

With hand-drawn animation and energetic typography, designers in the M.I.T. Student Art Association's LineStorm Animation consortium create a word-by-word homage to "Hail, Poetry!" the full-cast quatrain from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "The Pirates of Penzance." All artwork originates on flipbooks, encoded at the streaming rate of ten drawings (29.97 video frames) per second. The assignment, admirably fulfilled, was to create repeating cycles of animation artwork within the ten-drawings-per-second structure. Pell Osborn supervised the project. Many thanks go to M.Eckhardt, lead student animator and Sam Magee, director of the MIT Student Art Association.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• M.I.T.
• Gibert and Sullivan
• educational animation
• LineStorm Animation

[pellosborn]

@nosborn31 Hi, Nicky! It's always a pleasure to hear from you. I love getting your thoughts and responses on our latest animations, especially the M.I.T. ones, which are often the most fun and experimental to create, given the restricted format in which we deliberately work. Of course I remember the drawings we made at the Estancia in Argentina, using loose change to render accurate diameters for the suns we whipped up! Titanic Forces! Egad! Was that three years ago already? Thanks again! Pell

[nosborn31]

AWESOME! i've got to say though, that the words "heaven-born" and "e'en" animations were my favorites :D

(they remind me of the sun drawings-made with quarters- that you taught me how to make in argentina!!)