Originally Posted By ni_teach I just saw the coolest thing. It is Sand Animation which is real time animation as a person draws with sand on a light table. I just had to share this with all of you. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx0wAhCMvAc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...wAhCMvAc</a>
Originally Posted By lesmisfan ilove this video! our instructor in our theatre directing class showed us this video1 its amazing!
Originally Posted By mawnck Very cool. But this being a Disney forum, I'm going to be a pedantic jerk and note that the term "animation" is not being applied in the Disney/filmmaking sense here. This is more accurately a kind of performance art using an unusual form of illustration. (And loud music.) Practitioners of this sort of thing seem to have adopted the term "Sand Animation," but that's really not what it is. Here's some *real* sand animation that you may have seen before. Same kind of technique, but shot frame-by-frame using a film camera: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLecVQQwdRA&NR=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...dRA&NR=1</a>
Originally Posted By ni_teach Mawnck, I know where you are coming from but I could not think of another word that quite fit what she was doing. Performance art is just too general a term to cover it.
Originally Posted By mawnck No, you were correct, in that that's what they actually call it. No worries. Like I said, I'm being pedantic here.
