The Wonderful World of Animation, Tara Igoe Productions. 8/1989. UMASS student intern at CCM made this video about the Animation Lab in the museum's Communcations wing, and media. Features Animation Corps student work, Christopher Grotke at animation stand, Ed Rom at stand explaining the class and class project, Darren Wheeling working on and explaining ToptHat in tech room. The stand was quite new... we moved the computer in that room soon after, and angled the stand in the corner to make more...
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Top tHat, documentary
Keys, dancing trees, walk cycles, and funny frog walks. Pencil tests and other drawn experiments. By Christopher Grotke. 1989
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Grotke
Eddie Goldstein from CCM demonstrating and explaining digital effects of the Mediaworks TV studio. Probably done with Stan Woodward. Using the Fairlight Computer Video Instrument effects unit. 1987 or 1988? See also: Chromakey_1987_U003
Topics: TNLC, CCM. MediaWorks, tv studio, 1987, Eddie Goldstein, Stan Woodward, digital effects, fairlight
1992 - Great Hi-8 Video Workshop. 8 Weeks, 8 kids, 8 videos, Hi-8 cameras, Hi-8 editing machine. Christopher Grotke, Peter Carlin, Erik Blankinship, Adam Blumenthal were instructors. Hi-8 video cameras, editing, steadicam. computer graphics. Video shows class, final projects, and outtakes. Grant Modderman - Attack of the Living Leftovers EnderLee Paris - The Cave Monster, Or Is He? Joelle Modderman - Finding Little Sister Kristopher Edmondson - The Germinator Jordan Riley - The Hungry Chair...
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Grotke, Carlin, Blankinship, Blumenthal. Hi-8
Some claymation titles done by Lolly Ward. Summer 1991.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, claymation, Ward
Computer animation by Nzinga Kelliebrew and Alex Gregg. Summer 2000 animation workshop.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, Animation Lab, computer animation
Computer animation by Brandon Green and Chike Croslin. Summer 2000 animation workshop.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, Animation Lab, computer animation
Willie Moore pencil test with General Jaz and Colonel C. (Fun to watch his notes in the upper corners.) 1993?
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, Willie Moore. pencil test
Animated logos for a museum TV show. Also shot using the Pansophic system (IBM AT 286) and a BCD frame controller. 1990
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, AT 286, pansophic, BCD frame controller, computer animation
A collection of faces. Untitled, by Stan Woodward. 1987?
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, tv studio, 1987, Stan Woodward
Animation Corps spring 1988, drawn-on-film loops set to music. Mostly black and white. This tape was made to play in the lobby of the museum to get people to come attempt the world record for longest drawn-on-film project. Itâs a collection of student animation from museum animation classes. Uses 16mm film, later transferred to 3/4" Umatic video.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, drawn on film, Animate 88
This features claymation and other work by T. Carlos Williams. Includes his award-winning âDa Bridgeâ and other work shot on the animation stand at the Animation Lab. 1994?
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, Williams
Xerox animation by Christopher Grotke. I was experimenting with the enlargement of the copier at first, then drew over a copy of PhotoLab's Nestor Hernandez's photo of our back porch in NE DC. Fall 1989.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Grotke
The 202 Animation Corps class, led by Larry Lauria, Jim Strong and Dave Vallone in 1988. Animators each took a segment of the song and had predetermined spots to hand-off scenes to the next person. Some students didnât finish their sections, and some stand-by animation was used (the rice and chopsticks) to fill in. Students include: Amy Helm, 16, Thomas Jefferson HS for Science and Technology Erik Blankinship, 13, Good Consul in Wheaton, Damascus, MD Rick Callender, 17, Silver Brook HS, Silver...
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Animation Corps, Lauria, Strong, Vallone
Beginning of work on a story called Three Wishes. Master tape in bad shape, but we were able to rescue this much. 1990? Also contains what appears to be a basketball-playing slice of pizza.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, cutout
Willie Moore Pencil Tests. Fireball vs nightmare at start, then a pencil test of a film about a bully. I recall Willie bringing in huge piles of paper, and sitting at the stand for extended periods shooting everything. Willie did some of the most involved and complete drawn animation projects during my time at the Lab. He taught some classes there eventually. 1993? .... At Capital Childrens Museum (CCM) - National Center for Animation, Washington, D.C., Moore was Animation Consultant- Fall...
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, Willie Moore. pencil test
Animate with Music, May-Dec 1994 Little Lab Experiments All sorts of animation experiments done using the animation stand in the Animation Lab. I can hear that this is original music, probably done in another part of the Media Arts facility (we had been building up our music recording capabilities over the years.) Cut-outs, buttons, fingerpaint, drawn, walk cycles, projects with names, flipbooks, blocks, and other objects. Itâs a collection of many, many little projects, probably done with...
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, experiment
Demonstration of basic camera shots, close up, medium, long. Low, high angles. Pan, zoom, In front of storyteller theater done up for What’s Opera Doc. Joshua Muntain. 1998?
Topics: TNLC, CCM, Media Arts, Muntain
The master tape from which most of Top tHat was edited. Fun to see how much we could render in a batch and where the edit points were. Created primarily on an IBM 286 with a Targa graphics board using Pansophic Studioworks.1989.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Top tHat
Not sure what this is, but it seems to be a claymation figure conducting for a moment.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, mystery, claymation
Sidwell Friends school would come by the Animation Lab for their mini-mester each year for many years. This says 1993 on the box. Some flipbooks, and some ads to promote the environment. Monsters Vs. Humans. Also, Garbage Can Man. Students include Mike Gallant, Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan, Conzal King, Chris, Mark Buckley, Zak Jordan, Carl Almore.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, Sidwell Friends, flipbooks
More tests, and titles from 3rd and H. We would set things to run all night using the Pansophic system (IBM AT 286) and a BCD frame controller, and we'd come back the next day to see one of these little segments. Some frames could take minutes to render. 1990
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, AT 286, pansophic, BCD frame controller, computer animation
National Center for Animation Willie Moore 2-D Summer Camp 1995 Brandon Cummings, Brianne Drouhard, Joshua Meadow, Jeff Lancaster pencil tests, drawn animation, walk cycles, and finished work of inked cels. T-Carlos Williams Clay Animation Camp 1995 Farmer Bob visited by space aliens Jeff Lancaster - Godzilla meets his maker. Blue Guy by Adam and Jeff. Gumby Jackson gets cancelled by Jeff. Woodchuck.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, Willie Moore, T. Carlos Williams
Computer animation by Alberta Austin and Danny Webster. Summer 2000 animation workshop.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, Animation Lab, computer animation
Computer animation by Michael Zmidzinski. Summer 2000 animation workshop.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, Animation Lab, computer animation
Larry Jackson animation (no sound) says the box. Looks a bit like animation for a music video about DC and drugs. Tape reads: Terry McConnalâs student Larry Jackson. 1988?
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Animation Corps, DC
Chuck Jones talking with Stan Woodward June 21, 1993 at Capital Children's Museum about writing for cartoons, characters, voices, story, time, and more. VHS dub of SVHS original.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Stan Woodward, Chuck Jones
1992. A tape with samples of work from the Animation Lab including David Cook and Darren Wheeling working together as featured on In A Minute 1991, Robot Bumblebee & Disc of Saturn, Ralphie by Thom Shepard (1991), Da Bridge, An African Folktale, The Playground music video,
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, demo reel
Ted Warnock animation about getting a bite to eat in NYC. Music by Steve Murphy
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Warnock, Grotke
Two short hand-drawn animation pieces. One may be Ann Zimmerman's entry into a DC Jam (?) and the other is a short bit by Donovan Reid called of Mouse and Man presented by 'Icon Faction'. Shot in the Animation Lab. Photography by Greg Macek. 1988?
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Animation Corps
A short bit by Donovan Reid called of Mouse and Man presented by âIcon Factionâ
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Animation Corps
Space Dog and Space Kid was written and illustrated by then 5-year old David Cook. Darren Wheeling helped with animation and production, and David's mom Linda Cook was the narrator. Shot in the Animation Lab, and completed in the summer of 1990. Featured on the PBS show The 90's.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, David Cook, Darren Wheeling, cutout
Computer animation by Tom Abernethy and Ryan Garikes. Summer 2000 animation workshop.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, Animation lab, computer animation
Computer animation by Natalie Duvall. Summer 2000 animation workshop.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, Animation Lab, computer animation
The raw elements edited together for for U002. This 'Dub from Master' has a bit cleaner video than U002 but isn't edited yet and has no sound. Looks like it was shot on film and a projection was videotaped (3/4" Umatic most likely). Mediaworks brought in Jude Tolley to teach students from The Ellington School for the Arts in an animation workshop with at The National Learning Center's Capital Children's Museum. This has everything - hand-drawn, claymation, pixilation. Director Jude Tolley,...
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, 1987, Jude Tolley, Ellington School
Mediaworks brought in Jude Tolley to teach students from The Ellington School for the Arts in an animation workshop with at The National Learning Center's Capital Children's Museum. This has everything - hand-drawn, claymation, pixilation. Director Jude Tolley, assistant director Karen Ellzey, music by Matt Jones, and animated by Michelle Dyer, Walter Devore, Barry Bishop, Steven ?, Dan Darlymple, and Jessica True. Made with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the D.C....
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, 1987, Jude Tolley, Ellington School
Animated logos for the CCM show 3rd and H. By Christopher Grotke. 1990
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Grotke, 3rd and H
Spare Change claymation story of someone blue looking for spare change. Animation Class Project. 1995 Claymation ad for CCM. 1995
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, claymation
David Cook and Darren Wheeling. Master tape. Robot Bumblebee in The Disc of Saturn. December 1991. Age 6. 2nd of his three films. Voices by Darren Wheeling, David Cook and Linda Cook.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, David Cook, Darren Wheeling, cutout
Intern Kourtney Braff did this short piece showing that the mail dog always get through... almost. Cutout animation. 1992?
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, Braff, cutout
Computer animation by Dylan Oliver and Perter Moore. Summer 2000 animation workshop.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, Animation Lab, computer animation
Computer animation by Danielle Walker. Summer 2000 animation workshop.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, Animation Lab, computer animation
Computer animation by Matt Mirsky. Summer 2000 animation workshop.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, Animation Lab, computer animation
Animator Chuck Jones at ribbon cutting and opening the Animation Lab at Capital Children's Museum. Stan Woodward introduces him. All the kids will get a free book (Chuck Amuck), soon to be published. You can see the Bugs Bunny he drew on the wall in the background.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Animation Corps, Chuck Jones
47 minutes with Chuck Jones, just after the ribbon cutting for the Animation Lab at Capital Children's Museum. Stan Woodward and students ask questions. He shows how to draw a cricket and other things. This is filmed in what was soon to become the Media Arts office as we expanded operations on the 3rd floor. (Scary moment - I took this tape out, saw what was on it, and got very excited. I put it in the machine, it gave me an error, and pulled & crumpled the begining few inches of the umatic...
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Animation Corps, Chuck Jones
More audio of Darren Wheeling and Linda Cooke working with David Cook on Robot Bumblebee and the Disc of Saturn soundtrack. Part 2 - recording the story. 1991
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, David Cook, Darren Wheeling, cutout
Chris Beutler helped kids make this video about solar energy, mixing animation (The Solarsaurus) and live action. Darolle McKnight Sebastion Ozi Jenal Tyree Hardy Natasha Bynum Sammarria Ross Teresa Dross (or Cross) Louise Van order Chris Beutler Mark Thevenot Staff of Toon_A-Vision
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, Beutler, Toon A-Vision
I think Darren Wheeling did this. 1990 or 91?
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab
Whatever Happened to Those Cakes? by Peter Carlin and Christopher Grotke. An experimental video project. Greg Gauthier, George Goins featured. Pictures of CCM before it was torn down. We had to dispose of cakes. Shot on Hi-8mm? video. Poor quality, but weâll take what we can get. 92 or 3?
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Carlin, Grotke, Cake
âDamon, Tanara, Gina Fairlight effects.â says the label. Shot in the TV Studio at Capital Children's Museum. Shows the Fairlight control screen. Communications exhibit staff operating and performing. TV Studio had a camera and teleprompter in a room with a blue screen, the Fairlight for colorful digital effects, and a chromakey unit. There was also a 3/4â edit system and a mixer to switch between sources. 1992?
Topics: TNLC, CCM. MediaArts, U-TV, Fairlight
16 minute interview in 1990 in Animation Lab at Capital Childrenâs Museum. Talks to young people about learning to draw and becoming an animator. Interviewed by Stan Woodward.
Topics: TNLC, Animation Lab, Don Bluth, Stan Woodward, animation
May be the master version. 3rd and H was in production and we got Cher, visiting the museum for another purpose, to answer a question for us. Favorite shape? A pyramid. She was visiting in the museum's Mexico exhibit. Says 9/19/1990 on the tape.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, 3rd and H, Cher, Mexico
A hodge podge of interesting early Animation Corps animation class work at CCM. Work was shot on Sony 8mm videos by pausing and unpausing the recorder. Students shot their pencil work this way, then their test animation transferred to VHS for class viewing. Part 2 of 3. Gael Harlow pencil tests plus other class projects.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Corps, Harlow
Charming and weird claymation work in progress. Label says âElina Claymation,â â5th Down,â and âPencil tests for Writer Etalâ if that provides any clues. Iâve never seen this before.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, claymation
A collection of animation tests and titles done with the Pansophic system (IMB AT 286) and a BCD frame controller. Nothing spectacular, but shows some very early 3-D computer animation experiments. You can tell we were learning about rotating things on each axis, learning about texture maps, and figuring out how to use timelines. 1990
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, AT 286, pansophic, BCD frame controller, computer animation
Short original animated film by Louisa and Larrissa Kirkland, and narrated by their dad. Stars a unicorn dreaming of a place where everyone has a uni-horn. A first year Animation Lab project. January-March 1990, ages 7 and 11.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Unicorn Dreams, Kirkland
Spring 1989 Animation Corps class project, done to the song Born to Be Wild. Larry Lauria instructor. Shot in the Animation Lab. Edited by Darren Wheeling using an "Electrohome JAZZ" digital effects generator at Cablevision of Manassas.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Animation Corps, Lauria, Wheeling
A Steadicam Jr. shot (Hi-8 camera) through CCM from tv studio to Communications, past Future Lab and wall of faces, into Simple Machines, down into Mexico, through Mexico, into cave, through Communications lower level (strobe theater), down to lobby, up three flights of stairs, and back to tv studio. Shot by Peter Carlin. Shows Christopher Grotke, other staff and interns. 92-3?
Topics: TNLC, CCM, exhibits, H Street. fly-thru, Steadicam, Carlin
My Prerogative music video by Vincent (?). Features some hip hop bears, drawn and cutout. 1990?
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, vincent
Joe Joe Bear. Final project by Marc Crisafulli for an Animation Corps animation class taught by Larry Lauria, Dave Vallone, and Jim Strong. Shot using a Sony 8mm video camera on a tripod.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Animation Corps, Lauria, Strong, Vallone
Class project for the Options School, a 7th grade dropout prevention program at CCM. Christopher Grotke and Ginny Coffman helped guide the students through the making of a music video. Film by Tamiko Dean, Shawnte Hunter, Tyrell Jenkins, LaKiesha Patricia Proctor, Antonio Smith, Anthony Sutton, and Pasua Turner. Music by Cold Sweat, used with love but not permission. 1990. (See students with Joe Barbera in JoeBarbera_Interview_1990_U041)
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, Options School, Grotke, Coffman
Media Arts animation ad... and behind the scenes footage of kids painting cels, talking with students about animation. 1997
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab. cels
Samuel Willmott, age 5.5. and Darren Wheeling completed this nearly 10-minute retelling of the classic story. Sam wrote, directed, and illustrated, and the two of them animated it, completing the project in August 1992. Voices include Flannery Peterson, Samuel Willmott, Charlie Wilmott, Jody Katz, and Rebecca Willmott. Darren narrated.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, Darren Wheeling, Samuel Willmott
Environment Through Eyes of Children - Animated environmental messages. Clay, cutouts, flipbooks. Sidwell Friends project.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, Sidwell Friends, flipbooks
Sidwell Friends school would come by the Animation Lab for their mini-mester each year for many years. This says 1994 on the box. Some flipbooks, and some cartoons - The Paint Ball War, Killer Watermelon, and Low Budget Man. Students include Joey Frank, Mike Gallant, Nick Goodbody, Jeremy Oldfield, Devin Mahoney, Jamie Gardner, Penda Dickey.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, Sidwell Friends, flipbooks
Tom Ferguson final project for Animation Corps calss. Grunt.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, Media Arts, Animation Corps
Cyclone II. Final project by Christopher Grotke for an Animation Corps animation class taught by Larry Lauria, Dave Vallone, and Jim Strong. (I got to take the class for free in exchange for helping to set-up, assist, and tear-down the cameraâs, tripods, and light boards. A first step toward running the Media Arts department at the museum - the proverbial foot in the door.) Shot using a Sony 8mm video camera on a tripod.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaWorks, Animation Lab, Animation Corps, Lauria, Strong, Vallone
David Cook worked with Darren Wheeling to create Robot Bumblebee: Back Beyond Keon. Written by David Cook. 1993. (I love the Robot Bumblebee series, and this one is exceptional.) Ron is after Keon, so Robot Bumblebee and friends have to help him get back to the past. Linda Cook and Jonathan Perry-Giles did voices. David was age 8, and this number 3 in the series. Master tape.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, David Cook, Darren Wheeling, cutout
Computer animation by Reid Broendeo and Sean Tichenor. Summer 2000 animation workshop.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, Animation Lab, computer animation
Computer animation by Nate Belasco and Ben Smith. Summer 2000 animation workshop.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, Animation Lab, compter animation
Computer animation by Sarah King. Summer 2000 animation workshop.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, Animation Lab, computer animation
Computer animation by Kerry Garikes. Summer 2000 animation workshop.
Topics: TNLC, CCM < Animation Lab, computer animation
Computer animation by Jeremy Band. Summer 2000 animation workshop.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, Animation Lab, computer animation
Computer animation by Matt Tolf and Michael Zmidzinski. Summer 2000 animation workshop.
Topics: TNLC, CCM, Animation Lab, computer animation
The Snowman That Never Melts by Alana Jacobs, age 8. Assisted by Darren Wheeling . 1992. David, Gary Jacobs...
Topics: TNLC, CCM, MediaArts, Animation Lab, Darren Wheeling, Alana Jacobs
