Random Walk – Tony Pritchett eBook

Huge thanks to Jez Stewart at The BFI for scanning some Random Walk footage. There will be more images from more scans including an entire project folder-full of materials in the eBook.

028 > Random Walk

Domestic Archeology / Random Walk / Rutherford Appleton

I’m immensely proud of this paper.Thank you Prof. David Duce and Prof. Bob Hopgood. Thank you also to Dr. Victoria Marshall, for engineering the collaboration. I seem to have put…

A book from TP’s archives. I’m not sure when or why he owned the book. Perhaps it was a nice break from speaking Fortran.

019 > Some Light Relief

Random Walk

FORTRAN stands for: Flipping Heck,This Is Difficult To Learn. Tony used Fortran V to program The Flexipede. Drawing and animating using Fortran is not an easy task, especially for someone…

“It became clear that with the computer techniques currently available, the tedious and time consuming film method has an overwhelming advantage in respect of cost.” Of course nowadays the opposite is true.

018 > Comedy & Science

Random Walk

When TP got his funding from The Institute of Computer Science in 1967, he could’ve made anything in order to explore the possibility of computer animation. He chose to make…

Tony Pritchett at the ICA's Cybernetic Serendipity retrospective, 2014.

017 > TRUE or FALSE

Random Walk

> Tony Pritchett created the first computer-animated character in the world.A bold statement, but I believe it to be true.I'm not a computer art, film or animation historian, but in…