the Autons (Plastic dummies)
and also an episode called Midnight where basically peoples voices were being repeated by this one passenger on a luxury tour around the diamond planet; Midnight. I have also looked at some books too; mostly in relation to the Autons. Living Dolls by Gaby Wood and Robots; The Quest for Living Machines by Geoff Simons.
again - Ethan - you're right - the ventriloquism of the Midnight episode IS uncanny - another brilliant episode; indeed, 'disembodiment of voice' is another uncanny trope - the work of Tony Oursler, who projects faces onto disembodied heads, also uses 'disconnected voices' to uncanny effect...
ReplyDelete'Return of the Invasion of the Body-Snatchers' - see below for snippets from the three remakes - and, if you have time, give them a go - the 1993 version is often overlooked...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5prax5FsYmM
(1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci3uRT3nEZM
(2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s15PvvAt4lo
Hey all, I'm Liam, a third year student.
ReplyDeleteEveryone is now using blogger on our course, and there's a nice community growing with people following each others blogs and helping each other with issues. Not everyone is linked up to each other though, and I thought a central blog for the course which everyone could post to would be a pretty nice idea. I've made one at this address:
http://ucarochester-cgartsandanimation.blogspot.com/
It would also mean that rather then relying on the slow blogfeed and having to surf through the 70 odd blogs that we have between us, we can just come straight to this one.
With a large knowledge base between everyone a lot of issues could be resolved fairly quickly, and so any problems can be posted here, and we will all have quick access to them.
Also if anyone has found any good tutorials, has started a new project blog, has had a breakthrough they're pleased with, or whatever else, they can whack it on here.
Just put a subject in the post title (eg. ISSUE - Blend Shapes, TUTORIAL - Advanced Rigging etc) and blog away.
If you want to join comment in the first post with your email address (can't do it via linking) and I'll send you an author invite. If you don't want your email address published then just send me one (liamscarlino@hotmail.com) saying that you want in.
When you've joined post saying hello, a link to your blog and whatever else you want.
Cheers, hopefully hear from you all soon!
Liam x
The Autons I forgot about them, yes they are creepy (especially around christmas) and the image you have chosen is a great example of that uneasy feeling
ReplyDeleteby the way I was just thinking about the weeping angels they were always a little confusing for me. I mean I was brought up in a chuch background where staues of angels were to bring peace and safety, whereas in Dr Who they did completely the opposite (that is uncanny) It makes me wonder why such a large number of the population had such concerns. What do you think? being the Dr Who expert. Why do people act diffenently? How did the writers know it would have this effect?
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