Artist Statement 

Exhibition Art & Computers

Bunties Nature Guide was cbe culmination of a year’s study at Middlesex Polytechnic. The animated film was designed to visibly demonstrate a software programme which I had written whilst studying for the P. H.D.

The reason for developing the programme (written in Fortran on a VAX 785) was to introduce traditional methods of animacion into computing. This included techniques such as ‘squash”, ‘stretch’ and ‘anticipation’.

The bee and the flower were chosen because they were organic living things which had their own impor1ant characteristics suitable for use as ‘vehicles’ for the programming. It was also possible to exploit an element of humour within the relationship between the bee and the flower and to extend into areas of movement, time, perspective, space and colour.

• Henry Lutman (UK) born 1948. Studied at the York School of Art, Newport College of Art (Animation) and Royal College of Art (Animation). He has been a freelance animater and graphic designer, was full time lecturing in animation and Director of the Department of Film and Television at Gwent College of Higher Currently he is Head of Animation at Moving Picture Company, London.