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Haox CTS

In this CTS Lesson, we were taught about a couple Hoax's that had occurred in recent times, then tasked to create our own Haox in the form of a tabloid or a simple photoshopped image. What had sparked my interest however was how some Haox's presented were spread around, and the publics' reaction. We first learnt about a haox that had taken place within the art world, specifically in Holland within the 1940's. Han Van Meegeren was a professional painter who, in my opinion created wonderful art pieces all of which were his own. He found success for quite sometime before his paintings popularity started to diminish. The reason for this was that critics felt that his artwork focused too much on the past, as this was time where forward thinking artists were starting to become popular. As Meeregen was trying to formulate new ideas, he thought of doing the unthinkable and forged paintings then re-selling them under deceased artists names and had made large amounts of prof
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Satoshi Kon CTS

Within in the first CTS lesson this term, we learnt about an late animator and director called 'Satoshi Kon', whose works included: Paprika, Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers and other notable works. I hadn't realised that I have already consumed some of his works until very recently as I had watched Paprika at a much earlier age, as well as just recently finished his series 'Paranoia Agent' which details 12 self contained stories all revolving around the theme of paranoia through social media. This CTS helped me think more critically about films, as there is an abundance of information on screen for me to pick out and dissect. I have come to realise that there are a lot more film techniques that go into animation than previously thought as there are multiple instances of shot types and movements that would be seen in Hollywood movies. The fact that Kon was able to extract that knowledge and implement it into his animations, all by hand-drawn frames is emblematic to
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