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Snark @ New Forest Film Festival

Test screening of The Hunting of the Snark, Tuesday 2019-06-11
 Tickets | New Forest Film Festival

(The event had been cancelled.)

Author Goetz KlugePosted on 2019-05-112019-08-03Categories movie, news, Simon Davison

Michael Sporn’s Snark

"The Hunting of the Snark" is a great film

Directed and (mostly) Animated by Michael Sporn pic.twitter.com/Gyk4q54KlH

— Animated Golem (@AnimeGolem) July 13, 2018

 1989 | MPEG4 clip

Author Goetz KlugePosted on 2019-01-292019-01-29Categories Michael Sporn, movie

Simon Davison’s Snark Movie

Enjoy the six seconds:
»The Bellman, who was almost morbidly sensitive about appearances, used to have the bowsprit unshipped once or twice a week to be revarnished, and it more than once happened, when the time came for replacing it, that no one on board could remember which end of the ship it belonged to. They knew it was not of the slightest use to appeal to the Bellman about it— he would only refer to his Naval Code, and read out in pathetic tones Admiralty Instructions which none of them had ever been able to understand— so it generally ended in its being fastened on, anyhow, across the rudder. The helmsman (this office was usually undertaken by the Boots, who found in it a refuge from the Baker’s constant complaints about the insufficient blacking of his three pairs of boots) used to stand by with tears in his eyes; he knew it was all wrong, but alas! Rule 42 of the Code, “No one shall speak to the Man at the Helm,” had been completed by the Bellman himself with the words “and the Man at the Helm shall speak to no one.“ So remonstrance was impossible, and no steering could be done till the next varnishing day. During these bewildering intervals the ship usually sailed backwards.«

There is a crowd funding page associated with this project run by Imperious Films. Simon already managed to crowd fund one earlier project. To me this crowd funding looks more like an offer to pre-order a personal copy of the movie rather than to cover the production cost. Good idea.

 
Discussion: Twitter | Facebook

Author Goetz KlugePosted on 2018-10-062018-11-12Categories crowd funding, movie, news, Simon Davison

7777 $

Michael McNeff needed 50000 US$ for postprocessing his Snark movie. In December 2013 crowdfunding reached 7777 US$. Alas, that was not enough and the funding was stopped.

But the spin still is fun:


Let’s hope that in a few years the required computer power will be available for less then 777 US$.

Author Goetz KlugePosted on 2018-05-192018-11-03Categories crowd funding, Michael McNeff, movie

Snark Puppetery

Animators (2015): Saranne Bensusan, Louisa Brooks, Karen Morris, Chris Wright, Lawrence Mallinson

Author Goetz KlugePosted on 2017-10-192021-12-09Categories movie

Charlotte Emerson’s Shadow Cranky

This is the beautiful result of a 1st year university project to create a video to go alongside a given prose. Charlotte Emerson made a shadow cranky, animating Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark. She uploeded it to YouTube on 2016-05-12.

There is no sound. It’s up to you to add it.

Author Goetz KlugePosted on 2017-10-152018-10-08Categories Charlotte Emerson, movie

Matte Painting by Matt Scheuerman

Matte painting by Matthew Scheuerman (see also interview by Richard Cave) for Michael McNeff‘s movie

 

Author Goetz KlugePosted on 2017-09-262018-10-08Categories Matthew Scheuerman, Michael McNeff, movie

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