The Verge reports that “Toonz, the software that animators at Studio Ghibli used for classics like Princess Mononoke, is going open source.” That could be fun.

Good analysis (and critique) in The Atlantic of the film industry’s understanding of what it means to tell a story.

Lots of good pull-quotes:

Most writing on art is by people who are not artists: thus all the misconceptions.

—Eugène Delacroix

Instructions at YouTube’s blogspot site.

Choose the video that you want to edit and select Custom Blurring within the Blurring Effects tab of our Enhancements tool. Simply draw a box around whatever it is you want to blur. The Custom Blurring tool will automatically blur that object as it moves throughout the video, using our new innovative technology that can analyze the motion of any video on the fly.

Good introduction to using FiLMiC Pro on iPhones, especially the focus slider and the variable speed slider for controlled rack focus.

If anybody wants to do this, especially 4th quarter, in lieu of regular assignments, come talk to me. It might be pretty good.

Good article at the New Yorker about a backlash against too much CGI.

https://vimeo.com/81875587

Art, huh?

Self-evaluation form is here.

AVClub has an interesting take on Tangerine, the major indie film that was (in)famously shot on an iPhone.  Multiple claims that the filming was not a gimmick, but was in fact essential to the meaning of the film. Very good on reinforcing the basic modernist idea that form = content.