CREATING DYNAMIC GRASS FOR \u3ci\u3eTARTAN TROUBLES\u3c/i\u3e

In computer animated movies, the setting and its environmental elements aid in storytelling. In Tartan Troubles, dynamic grass was created as a part of the highlands of Scotland set. This thesis discusses the importance of environmental elements in animation as well as the terminology, procedures, and techniques used to produce dynamic grass as seen in the animated short, Tartan Troubles. The scalability, control, and flexibility of the dynamic grass pipeline make this effect applicable for various solutions in computer animation

‘Put on your boots and Harrington!’: The ordinariness of 1970s UK punk dress

In 2013, the Metropolitan Museum hosted an exhibition of punk-inspired fashion entitled Punk: Chaos to Couture. The exhibition emphasized the ‘spectacular’ elements of the subculture, reflecting a narrative that dominates accounts of punk dress, whereby it is presented as a site of art school creativity and disjuncture with the past. This is an important aspect of punk dress, but photos of bands and audiences reveal that there was much more to British punk style in the 1970s than what was being sold on London’s King’s Road. Heeding calls to trouble the boundary between the spectacular and the ordinary in subculture studies, this article looks at the ordinariness of 1970s British punk dress, arguing that we should understand punk dress in terms of mass-market commodities, not just customization and designer fashion. Many of these commodities were worn by the skinheads who preceded punk, and this article explores this subcultural continuity by focusing on the role of the Dr.Marten boot and the Harrington jacketin first- and second-wave British punk dress.It does so through discussion of the Cockney Rejects, the 1979 BBC television dramatization of the Sham 69 album That’s Life and the Undertones.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

Congo Basics

Congolese musicians do the best they can with what they’ve got in a country on its knees from war and a collapsed economy. Zoe Marriage reports from Kinshasa on the struggles of Show Music

Moving from Japanese film distribution to production: An interview with Third Window Films’ Adam Torel

East Asian cinema continues to have an audience in the UK, but finding this audience is a significant challenge. Following Tartan’s short-lived but influential Asia Extreme sub-label (which lasted from 2000 to 2008), other distributors have used a range of techniques and strategies to encourage audiences to attend screenings of Asian films, as well as to purchase DVDs or digital alternatives. DVDs, and to some extent Blu-rays, have continued to be the most popular formats for Asian film releases in the UK, despite the availability of streaming and downloading alternatives. Third Window Films is one label that particularly illustrates these trends. However, in this challenging market, managing director Adam Torel has now moved into producing films in order to acquire new titles and continue to promote them around the world. Distribution is often seen as an invisible process within the film industry, despite being central to exhibition and consumption. Third Window’s latest efforts show how the label’s experiences within distribution have successfully led to film production, often through crowdfunding and social media promotions. They do not necessarily have to rely on corporate or studio support, nor the latest digital alternatives, in order to get their films seen within existing global infrastructures of exhibition and consumption. This is particularly illustrated through Third Window’s first independently produced feature, Lowlife Love (dir. Eiji Uchida, 2015). I interviewed Torel at the end of 2016, shortly after the UK DVD and Blu-ray release of Lowlife Love. His experiences of this change in role will be documented later in this article. First, it is necessary to chart Third Window’s history before Lowlife Love to demonstrate how this was an important turning point for the company and to show practices of independent filmmaking and distribution

History as a tragicomic nightmare in Julia O'Faolain's "No country for young men"

IV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses (AEDEI), 2004, MalagaIV International Annual Conference of the Spanish Association of Irish Studies, 2004, Málag

Shadow of Culloden: The Political Legacy of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion

Legacies change over time, and the Battle of Culloden is no different, especially depending on who is seeking out election in Westminster. Often, the Jacobite failure is used to garner political gain during nationalistic movements; while others included when Westminster needed to push back against the Scottish people to keep them subdued. The catastrophic failure of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion led to changing political legacies over the next two hundred years, which has permeated modern-day United Kingdom politics with the result of a Scottish referendum in 2014. With a close analysis of stateless nations theory, as well as Wales as a foil for lack of referendum, a complete picture of the Jacobites and Scotland as a whole appears. While there has been significant research on both the historical and political side, there is no official trace of the political legacy left by the Jacobites. Several important Scottish scholars provide backgrounds on the history leading up to and during the rebellion, as well as a crash course in the Scottish political system. There are also several key primary sources including an official veteran’s register from London which holds the names of men who fought for the English crown; and a letter written in the early nineteenth century to describe how a piece of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s tartan was sewn into the new king’s coronation ensemble. Recent scholarship on the modern states making up the United Kingdom and their goal of potential independence from England has gained significant traction since the 2014 Scottish Referendum. A vast majority of these scholarly pieces concern the failure the Scottish National Party (SNP) had in the 2014 referendum and how the party is moving towards convincing the younger and more supportive population of an independent Scotland. 1 Scholarship on the theory of the stateless nation is vast and complex but provides a much-needed basis and context for how Scotland and its foil in Wales operate in their current grey political area

Dynamic Cloth for the Digital Character

Cloth simulation tends to have a lingering reputation for being notoriously complex and therefore casually avoided. Very few artists are enthusiastic about a cloth simulator\u27s primary use, and perhaps even fewer would consider cloth simulation for anything other than clothing. This thesis presents typical practices of cloth simulation based on the artistic perspective of a Cloth Technical Director (TD) who worked on the animated feature film and applied case study, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009). Through proof of concept using a generic character, simple props, and commercial software, key techniques are demonstrated to replicate the workflow of clothing the digital character as performed by artists at Sony Pictures Imageworks. The result is a set of methods aided to un-complicate the workflow of clothing the digital character

Stepping Into a Moment: A Historical Reconstruction of Lord Dunmore\u27s Portrait

The study of material culture study has long been estranged from mainstream academic discourse often dismissed as the examination of pots and pans. Historians are beginning to realize that material culture and cultural reconstruction offer vital insights into the past. Building upon new developments, my project reconstructs the items painted by Joshua Reynolds in his famous painting of Lord Dunmore. This reconstruction allows for the efforts of unnamed tradesmen to be retraced, making a few people and their efforts which were lost to history known once again. By employing written documentation in tandem with extant artifacts, the project recreates every object in the portrait as it would have been done in the past. This study put to the test the benefit of material culture as an academic discipline. By employing an interdisciplinary approach, it allowed for new insights into the past by combining most notably experimental archeology, material culture studies, and academic history. The findings of this research provide insight into the effectiveness of the experiential analysis technique for the purpose of historical study and how it benefits not only current understanding of artifacts themselves but also fills gaps in the lives of those who created and used these items

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