Animation

 


Animate Clay


© Joyce Borenstein 2007
"The Colours of My Father"
Joyce Borenstein



The Brothers Quay


Chromacolour
Animation Products

Calgary, Alberta
Canada


Jean Detheux


©Photo  by Lois Siegel
Peter Adamakos
Disada Productions Ltd.


©Photo by M. Hambledon
Michael Dudok de Wit
London, England

"Father and Daughter"
2000
Academy Award, British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) Award,
 the Grand Prix, Annecy


© Fletcher Shelton Delaney

Farzin Farzaneh
Lachrymosefilms

Montreal, Canada





Drat!
Is it a rat?
Is it a bat?
Is it a cat?
Drat!

Drat is a gothic tale of a woman living alone in a country house.
Her solitary routine is disrupted when she suspects
that some kind of animal is trying to invade her home.
Her suspicion turns into obsession as she tries in vain
to keep the creature out.


11 minutes, 2010, Canada

Farzin Farzaneh is an Iranian-born artist living and working in Montreal.

Technique
The images were created directly under the camera
and photographed on the animation stand.
 This technique is similar to painting-on-glass and sand animation.
 Farzin would erase and draw over the parts of the images
that he wanted to modify in the next frame.
Farzin used graphite and colour pencils on velum.

Winner
Best Animation
Queens World Film Festival
NYC
2011

Teen Filmmaker First Local to Win

at Ottawa International Animation Festival


©Photo  by Lois Siegel
Will Inrig with his trophy

 Will Inrig's short, animated film
 "The Depose of Bolskivoi Hovhannes" won the
Adobe Prize for High School Animation

 

This is his first animated film and tells the story of a humble shepherd
on a wind-swept heath in Armenia, whose sheep begin to conspire against him.

 

Inrig gained significant attention last summer with his debut feature documentary film
 
"The Exceptional Jivatma Valettas" that chronicles his very eccentric next-door neighbours.
 The film
premiered at the Library and Archives Canada.

He is currently working on another feature documentary
 "The Fantastic Ballet of the Mind and Its Master," exploring the inner fantasies of the autistic mind.

The film is inspired by his younger brother who has been diagnosed with severe autism.
Inrig is working with
the National Film Board of Canada through
 the assistance of Oscar-winning producer Adam Symansky.
Acting as the film’s executive producer is renowned Canadian filmmaker
 and Order of Canada recipient Allan King ("Warrendale," "A Married Couple").
 

Inrig is mentored by Order of Canada recipient Alanis Obomsawin,
one of Canada’s most distinguished documentary filmmakers
 and Ottawa filmmaker Lois Siegel.

 

Inrig's first dramatic feature about an enigmatic alien landing in northern Ontario,
 is also being supported by the National Film Board of Canada



 

 "The Depose of Bolskivoi Hovhannes" was made as part of
Canterbury High School's Media Arts Program 

YouTube


Director: Will Inrig
Camera: Gordon Bailey


©Photo  by Lois Siegel
 

AUDIO: Will Inrig talks to All in a Day host Adrian Harewood on CBC Radio July 23, 2008


© Photo by Lois Siegel
Sharon Katz



Slide


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Kutoka Interactive
Montreal, Canada

Makers of CD-ROM software for children covering several subjects,
 in English, French and other languages

New York Festivals Announces Grand Winners of the
 2007 Interactive New Media Advertising Awards

Top honors for Best Application was awarded to Kutoka Interactive of Montreal, Canada
 for their educational CD-ROM "Didi & Ditto: The Wolf King."
The colorful learning package targeting first-grade children uses games
 and hands-on activities to promote literacy, problem solving and other skills
 which make up the first-grade curriculum.


© Photo by Lois Siegel
Rick Vincent
CEO + Creative Director

Derek Lamb


©Photo by Lois Siegel

Kai Pindal, Derek Lamb, Janet Perlman

Northern Stars
2005
Canadian animator, producer, writer and director, Derek Lamb has died.


Ryan Larkin
Working on his new film "Spare Change"


Frank Film
Sound by Tony Schwartz


Frank & Caroline Mouris
273 Hanley Road
Nassau, New York
12123-9407
USA
cmouris@aol.com


The National Film Board of Canada (NFB)


Cannes Festival
May 17 to 28, 2006

The Cannes Festival will be the site of the NFB’s official launch for the Norman McLaren Year
 a special celebration as part of the 65th anniversary of animation film at the NFB.

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Jeu directed by Georges Schwizgebel

"Jeu" is a very captivating film. 
The music is strong and becomes a main character with the animation.
I haven't seen this done before so effectively. 

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Madame Tutli-Putli, directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, 2007, 17 minutes

A fantastic voyage by train at night…an hallucination with an outstanding use of light, color, and startling sound effects; precise detail and intricate design. The stop-motion animation took more than five years to complete. Portrait artist Jason Walker created the technique of adding composited human eyes to the stop-motion puppets. Not a children’s film.

 

Academy Award Nomination Short Film Animated, 2008

 
Bill Plympton
Plymptoons

California, Here I Come:  Another Canadian Who Headed South:"
           Film Animator Neil Blevins


August Strindberg and Helium

Tango, Directed by Zbigniew Rybczynski, 8 minutes, 1981, Poland

Thirty-six characters from different stages of life – representations of different times – interact in one room, moving in loops, observed by a static camera. I had to draw and paint about 16.000 cell-mattes, and make several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer. It took a full seven months, sixteen hours per day, to make the piece. The miracle is that the negative got through the process with only minor damage, and I made less than one hundred mathematical mistakes out of several hundred thousand possibilities.

Academy Award: Best Animated Short, 1983

See the Film

 
When the Day Breaks  by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis, 1999, 9 minutes, Canada

“When the Day Breaks” won the Palme d’Or for Best Short at the 1999 Cannes Film festival. It also took two prizes at the Annecy International Film Festival.
On a Roll: NFB Film Wins At Cannes: When the Day Breaks


Will Vinton

Clay Kings: Will Vinton Studios


© Photo by Lois Siegel
Steve Woloshen
Scratch Film Artist
Montreal, Canada

Clay


Clay Animator

 

Flipbooks
 

 

Flipbooks
by Patrick Jenkins



Haring Kids


Longfellow Middle School

Student Claymation Movies 
Year 2001-2002
San Antonio, Texas

Longfellow Middle School
Student Flipbooks 
Year 2000-2002
San Antonio, Texas

Optical Toys



 

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