has the world gone mad?
I just won a grant from Kodak for film stock. I’m not going to be shooting anything on film anytime soon, but I want to output a five-minute short on 35mm, which’ll cost just shy of $2,000. So the grant is cool.
Except, about six hours after getting the award letter, they told me that I was going to get disqualified because my project was “computer-generated.” (It’s not; it’s hand-drawn on a Wacom tablet.) Just to be silly, I asked, what if I print out the drawings on paper and rephotograph them with a camera? They said, hmmm, maybe that would work. They’ll get back to me.
I bet the Lumiéres confused a lot of people back in the day, trying to explain what they were doing without drawing a diagram or something.
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