“Audience-Friendly” Experimental Animator, Eric Dyer
Eric Dyer is an award-winning experimental animator and a professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Animator Eric Dyer
“Whenever people ask me what kind of films I make, I answer ‘audience-friendly experimental films,’ because if you just say ‘experimental films’ people tend to run away. The term ‘experimental’ is often misused by filmmakers who have made films that either are not fully fleshed-out or simply do not make any sense.”
Eric continues, “For me, experimental film is about exploring the expressive possibilities of burgeoning technologies and systems of my own design.”
Eric’s latest work, “Copenhagen Cycles,” is a 6-minute film that utilizes a wide range of filmmaking and graphic techniques resulting in a most engaging work. Take a look at a clip:
For this movie, Eric used Final Cut, AfterEffects, Photoshop, a Canon GL-1 camera, an electric motor with a variable output power supply, an Epson 2200 printer, “and a couple different Macs.”
It is interesting to note, however, that the completed movie is composed entirely of unprocessed footage of spinning paper sculptures. Eric’s unique process is inspired by an early motion illusion device, popular in the late 19th Century, the Zoetrope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope
check mine out……
keep up the good work man…….
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