Riso Animation Contact Sheets (+ links!)
and reading notes, seattle things, & last call for zines before the summer
You can now make contact sheets for risograph animation in Spectrolite!
This animation by our friends Alex Barsky and Zack Lydon of Zine Hug. They first started by making a hand drawn digital animation, then the frames were laid out on contact sheets, riso printed, scanned, and re-sequenced to make Crushed!:
Big thanks to Alex and Zack for instigating the idea of putting animation contact sheets into Spectrolite and their animation expertise.
If you’re interested in riso animation, Zine Hug has a whole website of risograph animation tutorials and examples, a newsletter, and they are teaching Virtual Riso Animation Workshop on June 4th!
Last call for zines before the summer
This Wednesday (April 19th) is the last day for zines from shop.anemone.com before our offline summer.
Seattle things
Seattle Art Book Fair is the weekend of May 6-7th, at Washington Hall. We’re VERY excited to wander around and look at everyone’s zines and art books!
RECC is having an opening celebration Sunday April 30th, 11am-3pm. Maker market, food vendors, lion dance, risograph printing, and more.
Links / Reading
Very into this signature book from the 1590s-1630s:
Also:
A new sewing studio in Berkeley — heads up for all my Bay Area friends
Merry Sky & Pirate Weather (the spiritual and UX/UI successors of Dark Sky, RIP Dark Sky, and thank you Alexander Rey)
Plus, more riso animation links:
Kelli Anderson teaches riso animation classes.
Motion designer Hiromu Oka shares process online and made a process video and interview.
Julia Schimautz has a bunch of riso animation examples here. Plus, Don’t Try Anything New.
That’s it for now —
Amelia (+Adam)