Animator

Prologue and Main Title From "Re-Animator"
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This is the prologue and title theme composed and conducted by Richad Band (With a tipping of the hat to Bernard Herrmann) and performed by the Rome Symphony Orchestra for the 1985 cult classic Re-Animator

Stuart Gordon's adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's Herbert West: Re-Animator puts a Night of the Living Dead spin on the classic Frankenstein story. Jeffrey Combs furrows his brow and bugs his eyes as the preternaturally intense Herbert West, a maverick medical student whose gory, gooey experiments cause bloody corpses and body parts to jerk to life. Bruce Abbot is the studious roommate drawn into his extracurricular experiments, which soon involve the dean's daughter (the frequently naked Barbara Crampton) and the college's cadaverous, calculating star professor (David Gale), who literally loses his head over a battle for West's discovery. In this world, that's only a minor setback.

Charged with sick gallows humor and a ghoulish gallery of undead beasties, Re-Animator, like Evil Dead II, is one of the most inspired and inventive--and funniest--horror films of the 1980s.

Mr T 3-D Animator Action Puppet
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This was a gift for a friend of mine that loves Mr T. It was shipped out promptly and was a great surprise.
I am very satisfied with this product!

Animation Unleashed: 100 Principles Every Animator, Comic Book Writers, Filmmakers, Video Artist, and Game Developer Should Know
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100 key principles of communicating via animation explained and illustrated.

Filmmaker and author Ellen Besen discovered these principles as she analyzed classic animated films. She began to see things that made certain animated films "leap off the screen".

She identified specific story telling techniques, camera angles, special effects, and backgrounds that were uniquely suited to animated films. She realized she was "tapping into the essence of how animation functions." Animation Unleashed explains and illustrates 100 of these techniques.

The writing is clear and concise, with delightful illustrations by Bruce Hallet to illustrate each of the techniques.

For example, on page 44 Besen says, "An animated script should create a platform for a performance. To achieve this, write for action first." She then shows how visual actions drive a good animation, and how--if the writer starts by writing dialog--the script can end up as a series of talking heads.

I liked the book because it introduced me to a filmmaking world that I knew little about.

After reading the book, I began see animation everywhere. On a flat screen at the grocery store checkout stand, on television, at the movies, and on most of the websites that I visit. It is fair to say that Animation Unleased increased my visual literacy and my enjoyment of animation.

Recommended for: animators (from beginning to advanced), film buffs, and anyone who needs to communicate visually.

Re-Animator (2 Disc Set + Highlighter)
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Before horror movies did CGI, there was Re-Animator. It has everything a good Friday night Horror flick could want. It is in every Top 5 Zombie movie list for a good reason. If you enjoyed Brain Dead (AKA Dead Alive), you'll really enjoy this.