Features Editor:
John Liebhardt
johnliebhardt@dailyemerald.com
Thursday, June 6,2002
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Sex, Masmeariox
■ Iwo cocky teenagers learn
about life, love and their sexual
identities while on a road trip
‘YTuMamaTambien’
By Jen West
Oregon Daily Emerald
Sex can bring people together, but
it can also tear them apart. In the
Mexican romantic comedy “Y Tu
Mama Tambien” — which translates
as “And Your Mother, Too” — two
rich, cocky teenagers learn this harsh
lesson while on a road trip to a beau
tiful secret beach.
Writer/director Alfonso Cuaron
has created an intriguing film that
dances on the line separating the
pornographic from the artistically
sexy. This is a gritty, realistic com
ing-of-age film illustrating the sexual
growth of two friends who realize
they have a lot to learn about how to
please a woman — and each other.
While their girlfriends spend the
summer traveling in Europe,
Tenoch (Diego Luna) and Julio (Gael
Garcia Bernal) surrender themselves
to boredom in Mexico City. When
they meet an older woman, Luisa
(Maribel Verdu), the boys tell her
they are preparing for a road trip to a
fictional beach called Boca del Cielo
(Heaven’s Mouth). After learning
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Art exhibition will feature
graduate students’ work
University graduate students will present their artwork
at the annual Master’s of Fine Arts group exhibition Fri
day at Oveissi & Co. in downtown Eugene.
This year’s exhibition, “MFA/02,” will run in coordina
tion with First Friday ArtWalk in downtown Eugene,
which is designed to attract attention to Eugene’s art and
gallery community. Oveissi & Co. is located at 22 W. Sev
enth Ave. and will be one of the stops of the ArtWalk.
“MFA/02” is organized by the University of Oregon
Museum of Art and the art department and will run in Eu
gene through June 22. Organizers will then move the show
to the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland and
stay through Aug. 17.
This year’s show is being displayed off-campus because
the University’s art museum is still closed for a $12 mil
lion expansion project. The art museum is scheduled to
open in fall 2003.
The exhibit will include:
• Art/ceramics by Michael Boonstra and Carrie Shields
• Fibers by Annette Hepner and Robin Seloover
• Metalsmithing and jewelry by Maru Almeida and
Nick Dong
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Design
students
‘explode’
with art
■ Multimedia design students will
showcase their projects today and
Friday during “Animation Explosion”
By Jen West
Oregon Daily Emerald
Animation has come a long way since
the days of drawing and painting a se
ries of images to simulate movement.
“Animation Explosion” will present stu
dent work in a variety of animation
styles including film, computer and
drawing animation and claymation.
The art department presents “Anima
tion Explosion” at 7 p.m. Thursday and
Friday in 177 Lawrence Hall. Entry to
the event is free, and there will be com
plementary refreshments.
The University has taught animation
for more than 40 years through the art
department’s visual design program.
But in the 2000-01 school year, the de
partment changed the name of the pro
gram to multimedia design because of
the increasing number of computers
and various media used to produce ani
mation. The first multimedia design
class graduates this year.
“Animation Explosion” is “a show
case of what has been done in our de
partment,” said Marianne Hallock, co
ordinator of the event.
The event will exhibit animation
work that students have produced, she
said. The students have worked on proj
ects that incorporate various types of
animation including 3-D models, draw
ings, stop-motion, video, computer ani
mation, experimental animation, inter
active Web sites and live action with
blue and green screens.
“We try a little bit of everything,” Hal
lock said.
Hallock said she began studying
multimedia design in Winter 2001, but
she had already experimented with
animation in high school using Legos
and drawings.
The hard part of animation is not the
drawing, she said, but “you have to be
willing to keep drawing the same thing
over and over again.” She said some an
imating styles involve scanning lots of
drawings. But drawing is no longer the
only way to make an object move, and
the projects shown at “Animation Ex
plosion” will demonstrate the various
techniques with which the student ani
mators have been working.
“The hard part is figuring out the pac
ing,” she said. “How do you exaggerate
the motion?”
She said the animators use a tech
nique called “squash and stretch” that
the old Disney animators used in their
classic cartoons. Movements are added
to an object that may seem overly car
toonish, but the end result is a more life
like movement.
She drew a ball bouncing into the dis
tance and pointed out how she elongat
ed the ball in midair to simulate more
“organic” movement. Then when the
ball hit the ground, she drew it with a
dramatic “splat!”
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