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In 1968 Janiak became a professor of design animation and experimental filmmaking at the
Institute of Design, and helped to grow the school's animation department. The animation program did grow at I.D., and in 1978 there were 30 animation majors earning degrees. Peter Gorner interviewed Larry Janiak
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was made in 1960 using black and white 16mm film, and is a direct animation depicting lines and abstract shapes resembling the infinitesimal nuclei which move and flicker across the screen. The film is silent, but the movement of the shapes is meant to resemble
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Larry Janiak was born on
February 15, 1938, and grew up in both the southwest and northwest side of Chicago. When Larry was six, his family moved to a northwest neighborhood of Chicago, close to the Indian Boundary Forest Preserve, the Che-Che-Pin-Qua Woods and the Des Plaines River. Larry attended
205:(1970) was created using 16mm film that was randomly animated to create sporadic movements of shapes and colors in subtle visual sequences in discernible steps of intensity. The film is set to Gamelan, music traditional to the Vivekananda Vedanta Society.
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Chicago Earth Day parade and domestic scenes of the Janiak family with abstract images and textures drawn directly on 16mm film. The soundtrack consists of assorted tape loops.
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Kimberly-Clark Corporation. The film was intended to clarify the importance of a corporate identity and the importance of good marketing. It discusses the history of corporate identity and branding, drawing upon the use of
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In 1962 Janiak was drafted into the United States Army, and served until 1964. While in the army, he continued his work in film. He worked as the director of an educational television station of the
151:(1964) produced with black and white 16mm film captures Janiak carrying out a conversation, but acting as both people, in a humorous portrait of work at Goldsholl Design & Film Associates.
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use of montage, collage, and light experimentation was encouraged. The studio created advertisements for companies such as
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