Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that a Senator could make a fiery speech about the treaty and the Soviets and still end up voting for the treaty. Gromyko then responded with rare whimsy: "If I should ever get the urge after reading some hotheaded statement made in the United States to reach for a pencil and paper, I will use my other hand to restrain the first one. If I should ever be tempted to dictate a sharp response into a tape recorder, I will instruct my staff to make sure the tape recorder breaks down. If I should ever feel the urge to call...
...more you know, the more you find a tremendous latitude within the bounds of stylistic authenticity and good taste. My score markings from earlier years are in ink, because I was so sure there was only one way to go; my markings from more recent years are all in pencil...
Rose's technique demonstrates two methods probably unfamiliar to the non-animator. She has drawn herself into the movie but her own portrait in the movie has an almost photographic quality while the characters are obviously hand-drawn. In fact, it is only when she passes her pencil over her face and becomes similar in style to her characters that her self-portrait begins. Until then, she has taken advantage of a trick called "rotoscoping", a painstaking process which involves tracing the projection of live-action footage, frame by frame, onto paper laid over frosted glass. The result...
...several times in a row, that's a cycle; when there is no action but the lines stay "alive"--they vibrate slightly and move in their own subtle rhythm--that's a cycle, too. Even a figure standing still dies without a cycle. The illusion is not complete. in Pencil Bookings numbers sometimes appear in the lower right hand corner of the drawings. Watch them if you can, and you will see them repeat, marking the cycles...
...Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT they can't figure out why we recognize a letter in almost anyone's handwriting, or why we abstract a smile-face as a face at all. Nobody knows why we believe animation.Kathy Rose [left] addresses one of her rebellious characters in 'Pencil Bookings...