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Neil Blevins
Film Animator
Pixar Animation Studios
Emeryville, California
Neil Blevins
Before Neil Blevins
moved to Marina Del Rey, in 1999, he had always lived
in Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada. He was 26-years-old and he left Canada,
possibly for good, to work in the film industry in California.
 California,
Here I Come: Another
Canadian Who Headed South:"
Film Animator Neil Blevins
He first worked for
Blur Studios in Venice.
Blur's work: "Hellraiser 4," shots for "Deep Rising," the "hell" sequence
for South Park, the movie, several episodes of the cartoon "Johnny Quest," and
tons of commercials.
Then Neil landed a job at Pixar and has never looked back.
He
became a technical director on
"The
Incredibles," directed by Brad Bird,
who also directed "The Iron Giant."
"The Incredibles is an action-adventure, comedy about a family of superheroes.
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© Joyce Borenstein 2007
"The Colours of My Father"
Joyce Borenstein |
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The Brothers Quay
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Chocolate Moose Media
Firdaus Kharas
©Photo by Lois Siegel
Firdaus Kharas has been
referred to in the media as a “world renowned”
director and producer of animation, documentaries, television series and film.
His current work focuses on innovative solutions to global issues
by creating various types of media to effect societal and
individual behavioural change through mass communications
spanning across many cultures and countries to better the human condition.
In 1996, Kharas founded
Chocolate Moose Media,
a social enterprise that are
both for-profit and non-profit media
activities
(Culture
Shift). He describes
himself as a social innovator
focusing on some of the world's toughest issues.
Nan and Lili Things That
Belong in the Kitchen & The Square
The Three
Amigos HIV/AIDS Prevention Programme
©Photo by Lois Siegel
©Photo by Lois Siegel
TEDxKids@TheHill-Firdaus Kharas-Find Your Inspiration
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Chromacolour
Animation Products
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
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Cuckoo Animation
Velislav
Kazakov
Bugging the Bug
Cuckoo
Libido
Overcast |
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Jean
Detheux
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©Photo by Lois Siegel
Peter Adamakos
Disada Productions Ltd.
American Pixel Academy's Pixel Award
2016 Gold Award to Disada Productions
"Home Fires"
Directed by Peter Adamakos
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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
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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 |
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Tyler Gibb
Animation
and Illustration |
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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 |
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The Joy of
Books
Sean Ohlenkamp, a creative director at a Toronto marketing agency,
spent four nights filming The Joy Of Books at his local independent
bookstore
using more than 15 volunteers and hundreds of paper and hardback titles.
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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 |
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Derek Lamb
©Photo by Lois Siegel
Kaj Pindall, Derek Lamb, Janet Perlman
Northern
Stars
2005
Canadian animator, producer, writer and director, Derek Lamb has died. |
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Ryan Larkin
Working on his new film "Spare
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Frank Film
Sound by
Tony Schwartz
Frank & Caroline Mouris
273 Hanley Road
Nassau, New York
12123-9407
USA
cmouris@aol.com
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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.
©Photo
by Lois Siegel
Grant Munro, Norman
McLaren, Rene
Jodoin
Canadian Film Animators
National Film Board of Canada
1985
Norman McLaren
(1914-1987)____________________________________________________________
Photo by Gar Lunney
National Film Board of Canada
Norman McLaren
1951
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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 |
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Bill Plympton
Plymptoons
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 California,
Here I Come: Another Canadian Who Headed
South:"
Film Animator Neil Blevins
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August Strindberg and Helium |
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Tango,
Directed by Zbigniew
Rybczynski, 8 minutes, 1981, Poland
Experimental Animated films are some
of the most interesting. Tango fits in this category. Only 8 minutes and 12
seconds long, the film is composed of a continual series of characters moving
into the simple landscape of a small apartment room, each initiating a different
action. First, there’s a boy who is chasing what looks like a dark soccer ball.
He moves through a window to retrieve his ball and then leaves the same way he
came in. His movements are repeated throughout the film.
Then a series of other people appear – a thief, a lady nursing a baby, a man
attempting to fix an overhanging light, an athlete, two lovers… actions are
repeated as layers of action fill an increasingly crowded space.
Rybczynski had to draw and paint over 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. Tango won an Academy Award for Best
Animated Short Film (1982).
The film can be seen online on Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/38580206
Academy Award: Best Animated Short, 1982
Review by Lois Siegel
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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 |
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Will Vinton
Clay Kings: Will Vinton
Studios
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©
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Steve
Woloshen
Scratch Film Artist
Montreal, Canada |
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Flipbooks
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Haring
Kids
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Longfellow Middle School
Student
Claymation Movies
Year 2001-2002
San Antonio, Texas
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Longfellow
Middle School
Student Flipbooks
Year 2000-2002
San Antonio, Texas
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