Marionettes, 2007

Tamás Waliczky: Marionettes, 2006, excerpt

MARIONETTES

"Marionettes" is a seven-minute computer animation about the collapse. Marionettes are held and controlled by strings. If there are no strings, they collapse. No one controls the body. If no one is controlling the body, it is controlled by the forces of nature; mass, gravity, collision, friction, randomness. In this animation, the animator does not animate in the traditional sense. He does not control the animation frame by frame. Therefore, we can say that it is an anti-animation.

The forces controlling the movement of the puppets are calculated by physics simulation algorithms. Therefore, these movements are strictly mathematical. Yet they create a dramatic effect. The collapse is represented both physically and, surprisingly for machine-animated puppets, psychologically.

"MARIONETTES", 2007

The installation version, 24 min.

Master: High Definition (1920x1080 or 1280x720) digital video files.

Direction, Animation, Editing: TAMÁS WALICZKY

Artistic Advisor: ANNA SZEPESI

© 2007 by TAMÁS WALICZKY & ANNA SZEPESI

"Marionettes" exhibited in the "Wolfgang von Kempelen - Media Art and History Exhibition", M?csarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest, 24 March - 28 May 2007

"MARIONETTES", 2006

The computer animation version, 7 min. 11 sec.

Master: High Definition (1920x1080 or 1280x720) digital video files.

Direction, Animation, Editing: TAMÁS WALICZKY

Artistic Advisor: ANNA SZEPESI

Music performed by STEVE SMITH and GARY CHAFFEE

Musical composition:

SEVENTH HEAVEN (For Steve & Vinnie)

By GARY CHAFFEE

© 1991, 1992 BEAM ME UP MUSIC

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© 2006 by TAMÁS WALICZKY & ANNA SZEPESI