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Tony White is a British Academy Award-winning animation director, animator, author, educator and consultant. At the beginning of his career, he studied advanced animation techniques with some of the
finest masters of the art-form. Specifically: Ken Harris (original lead animator of "Bugs Bunny," "Roadrunner," etc.), Art Babbit (original lead animator on "Pinocchio," "Fantasia," etc.) and Richard
Williams (3 times Oscar winner and author of "The Animator's Survival Kit"). Tony is currently animation program director and instructor at the inspirational non-profit, AIE-Seattle (www.theaie.us),
where he is developing a 2-year program that will enable students to enter the industry without the extreme student loan challenges that are common at other animation schools in the USA. Tony is
founder of "Drawassic Age" (www.drawassic.com), a ground-breaking animation studio that seeks to preserve, teach and evolve the art-form of traditional animation in this digital age. Tony's ultimate
dream is to establish a unique atelier-style studio/academy of advanced animation - where his most talented student graduates can gain industry experience through an MFA-level style apprenticeship
with master professional animators, on unique, ground-breaking animated films. To help realize this dream, Drawassic Age is currently producing a short 2D animated teaser for its first intended movie
production "Bad Penguin". (www.badpenguinmovie.com) Tony's current best-selling books include: "The Animator's Workbook"; "Animation from Pencils to Pixels ~ Classical Techniques for Digital
Animators"; "How To Make Animated Films" and "Jumping Through Hoops: The Animation Job Coach". His latest (and Tony believes, his best) animation book, "Animator's Notebook", is to be published in
October 2011 by Focal Press.
3/13/2011 7:13 AM
tonymaticus wrote:
Yes... WOW! Apparently the trailer's been around for a couple of years or so now but I've never seen it before. I can understand why the film never got financed as it seems only 'cartoon' films talking to the lowest common denominator get made this days - and it feels a little highbrow with the Wagnerian style music and all. (Although, that said, I do still like a lot of modern animated movies - even though "The Illusionist" and "Secret of Kells" stand out to me, despite them not doing well at the box-office!) I do think though that if Walt Disney were alive today and he was still continuing with his ongoing 'Fantasia' concept, this would definitely have been one of the sequences he would have proudly used. Incredible work! Reply to this
3/14/2011 11:24 AM
Brett McCoy wrote:
Tony, have you seen the trailer for "Song of the Sea"?
It's being directed by Tomm Moore, who also did "Kells". Reply to this
4/12/2011 4:58 AM
Robert Lee wrote:
Beautiful animation. Strange music choice, though. The opening is Wagner's Rheingold, not Siegfried. It then cuts briefly to Holst's Mars from the Planet Suite before ending with a touch of Wagner's Gotterdammerung. Kind of works though, if you're not too much of a purist. Reply to this
4/12/2011 6:59 AM
tonymaticus wrote:
Not sure about the music choices either Robert, but the overall effect is powerful so I'm fine with it. Great to see classical animation when its available - shame it wasn't funded! Reply to this
Wow!
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Yes... WOW! Apparently the trailer's been around for a couple of years or so now but I've never seen it before. I can understand why the film never got financed as it seems only 'cartoon' films talking to the lowest common denominator get made this days - and it feels a little highbrow with the Wagnerian style music and all. (Although, that said, I do still like a lot of modern animated movies - even though "The Illusionist" and "Secret of Kells" stand out to me, despite them not doing well at the box-office!) I do think though that if Walt Disney were alive today and he was still continuing with his ongoing 'Fantasia' concept, this would definitely have been one of the sequences he would have proudly used. Incredible work!
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Tony, have you seen the trailer for "Song of the Sea"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdCabgJQpbA
It's being directed by Tomm Moore, who also did "Kells".
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Beautiful animation. Strange music choice, though. The opening is Wagner's Rheingold, not Siegfried. It then cuts briefly to Holst's Mars from the Planet Suite before ending with a touch of Wagner's Gotterdammerung. Kind of works though, if you're not too much of a purist.
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Not sure about the music choices either Robert, but the overall effect is powerful so I'm fine with it. Great to see classical animation when its available - shame it wasn't funded!
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