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David Thrasher
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 10 ม.ค. 2007
Bean Counter - Wheel Wonk
This is part of my contribution to ASIFA Central's Anijam for 2024. Bill Plympton did 6 still images for the ASIFA international poster and the idea for the Anijam was to do animation connecting two of them. I decided to animate two of the images and just connect them with a simply dissolve.
I decided that the character was a typical "bean counter" at a corporation and thought the images represented snapshots of his life. So in one picture he's counting literal beans. He's still counting beans in his head while he drives home.
In the images I didn't do:
He eats dinner - still counting beans. He sleeps in his bed - counting more and more beans. And it becomes overwhelming and his head explodes.
I decided that the character was a typical "bean counter" at a corporation and thought the images represented snapshots of his life. So in one picture he's counting literal beans. He's still counting beans in his head while he drives home.
In the images I didn't do:
He eats dinner - still counting beans. He sleeps in his bed - counting more and more beans. And it becomes overwhelming and his head explodes.
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Bean Counter - Keyboard Warrior
มุมมอง 34 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
This is part of my contribution to ASIFA Central's Anijam for 2024. Bill Plympton did 6 still images for the ASIFA international poster and the idea for the Anijam was to do animation connecting two of them. I decided to animate two of the images and just connect them with a simply dissolve. I decided that the character was a typical "bean counter" at a corporation and thought the images repres...
ASIFA/Central Coffee Zoom open
มุมมอง 194 หลายเดือนก่อน
Every month ASIFA/Central holds a Zoom meeting which they call a "Coffee". It is essentially a water cooler type conversation where members can talk about their projects or interests. ASIFA/Central is the Midwest American chapter of the international animation organization ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film d’Animation or International Animated Film Association). I created this opening a...
Des Moines A Brief History 1982
มุมมอง 3.9K3 ปีที่แล้ว
Narrated by Chuck Shockley, this documentary about the history of Des Moines, Iowa had been done as a college class project. An interview with former mayor of the city, George Whitmer is part of this production. An attempt was made to mute some copyrighted music, so if there is a silent spot, this is why.
Negative footage
มุมมอง 703 ปีที่แล้ว
Some experimentation seeing what somethings look like as a negative.
At the Ruppert house
มุมมอง 333 ปีที่แล้ว
Not everything is clear in this footage but the Ruppert family may be able to spot those they know.
Hannibal, Missouri trip
มุมมอง 163 ปีที่แล้ว
A trip taken to Hannibal Missouri to try to shoot a film by Calvin Bierman entitled "Hannibal the Cannibal". There was even a song written for it. (This was done many years before "Silence of the Lambs", by the way.) As with many casual projects like this it turned out to be more vacation than productive film shoot.
Battle Cleanup
มุมมอง 63 ปีที่แล้ว
The 16mm version of this animation. We shot it at the same time in black & white 16mm film and color standard 8mm movie film.
Meet Your Library 1983
มุมมอง 153 ปีที่แล้ว
This is a project I did while in college. The assignment was to create a instructional video. I contacted the public library and asked if I could do this for them. Chuck Shockley provides the narration. At the time I was not aware of the ins and outs of copyright so hopefully this will not be a problem today as it is not my intention to exploit the musical material. The original tape this came ...
Mass Production
มุมมอง 143 ปีที่แล้ว
Hand drawn animation done during college - a college that did not teach animation.
The Act
มุมมอง 73 ปีที่แล้ว
A clay animated movie done in college. Being a poor college student I attempted to save money by hand processing my own film. Hence the spots in the second half.
The Fountain 1977
มุมมอง 73 ปีที่แล้ว
My very first movie, made during high school. It was notable at the time because I was the only one attempting to do a movie with sync sound right on the film (magnetic stripe). My classmates were attempting to run tape recorders while their films were being shown with the risk of going out of sync. This film has a loose plot of a reporter trying to locate a certain Budd Rose. The original film...
The Fact
มุมมอง 63 ปีที่แล้ว
A film shot during college, this was an attempt to make a thriller with catastrophic results. Our professor who was in this played his part like he was in a Mack Sennett comedy and the other actors did not do too much better. But taken for what it is, it's tolerable.
Dr Know
มุมมอง 83 ปีที่แล้ว
An impromptu piece of creativity. This film was conceived, written and performed by Joe Ruppert.
Turn the music off it’s too loud 😢
If I can get into a time machine and go back and adjust the mix I will but there's no such thing as a time machine so you'll just have to live with it.
Music gets too loud half way through😢
Thanks. But I'm not going back to fix it now.
First sentence : only inhabitants of this land where the native animals. White men had not yet touched this land. The only men were indians…… So they are considered animals🤔 ya that verbage needs addressed
I don't know who was in charge of sound and video on this in 1982. But it's horrible. It's more like a silent movie as sound is breaking into the last century in the 20's. 1982 in des moines compares to the 1920's 🤦 I swear this looks way older
It was a college class project done with equipment far less capable than what's available today. Complain all you want but it it what it is.
IF you think you could do better with this, you are welcome to try. You do the research. You get the images and sound and you edit it all together. But before you get too comfortable, you have to do it with non-broadcast 1980's era analog equipment with VTRs where it's a spin of the roulette wheel if you are going to get a clean cut. It's very easy to sit back and complain years after the fact. You try making such a thing with what was available at the time to a cash starved college student.
6:05 The person who chose to insert piano in this video must have been chosen by the des moines city council. 8:00 Records brought in by ox drawn sleigh. Which is why everything takes so long as far as building permits and such....keeping in the style of an ox drawn sleigh. Although the video states it was an ox drawn bobsled. That would mean the oxen were extremely fast, fast enough to run down a bobsled track. Although it makes one think of where the hill for the track was and why were the records kept at the top of the track and for how long. Which I think would have been pertinent information for this video. 🤷 8:38 Water covered bottomless pits. And where might these bottomless pits be. I think that would be an interesting tourist attraction! 8:54 De Moine spelled without an "S" Must have added the s when rattlesnakes were found around Winterset. Which would have been one of the last towns founded or they just forgot and added it to remind people that yes, there are rattlesnakes in Des Moines. Therefore any city with an s in the name depending on where it is in the name. Is the time frame that they found rattlesnakes in that city. Or maybe one s in the name means snakes were found and two s's means rattlesnakes...😬 Or to escape all the rattlesnakes one could've hopped the steamboat and found no snakes on board.
Sounds like you’d be good at Cinemasins!
Interesting how such an ancient project is now getting such detailed criticism. It was a miracle under the circumstances at the time that the thing even got made.
King Kong, Metropolis, The Beast from 200000 Fathoms, The 50 ft Spider, ???, and The Day The Earth Stood Still
nice!
0:02 What is from?
Ŕ4!
I sure miss you! I love your films
nice one !
why was that man laying down on the ground?
Mosquito truck got him, he gonna die of cancer now ^___^ mosquito truck made in china :D
This was great.
Lmao
That is great...my generation followed those DDT trucks around like they were giving away candy when we were kids.
Lolwut
3.0 Vulcan.