Everybody loves Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets. Jim started off as a young teenager when he acquired his first job as a puppeteer. His first job was to write/puppeteer/voice act/ and draw storyboards for Wilkinss Instants Coffee...
We all know the rest: he went on to create Sesame Street, The Muppets and other great projects. What I did not know until recently, was that he was a Stop Motion animatior also. "Alexander the Grape" is a cutout animation by Jim in the 60's but it was lost in time until now since it was never completed.
It was posted by the Jim Henson Company on YouTube about two years ago.
Interview with Bram Meindersma, Composer and Sound Designer of Oscar® Nominated Stop Motion Short Film, "Negative Space"
Sam and his father, from Negative Space . Source: Vimeo. Unlike practically every other medium, film has the unique aesthetic of being composed of the elements of sound and image, and, curiously, whenever watching a film, the two blend together into something of an impeccably hybridized concoction. With as much influence as sound has over the audience’s final experience of any given film, composer and sound designer Bram Meindersma’s work on the Oscar-nominated stop motion short film Negative Space – directed by Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter – proves an endlessly fascinating and extraordinary case study, as it uses sound – both its soundtrack as well as every other element of sound design – only sparingly and in subtle ways, one that could almost be called conservative. Yet it is perhaps just that component of its sound design that, at least in part, makes the film such a powerful one. Perhaps the reason why Meindersma’s delicate work on Negative Space is so powerful is i
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