Master Animator: George Dunning

Synopsis: In this film artist, illustrator and film animator George Dunning, explains his work and ideas on how motion pictureaffects our imagination. He demonstrates some of his drawing techniques, and conducts a brief tour of his studio in England showing how film animation is produced from hand-drawn cells.

This documentary contains several examples from his work including THE FLYING MAN, DAMON THE MOWER, the Beatles animated film YELLOW SUBMARINE, and sketches for a film about Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’. Dunning discusses techniques that transform drawings and paintings into film, how cells are built up of layers of images from background to foreground details, ‘peg’ animation, the interplay of picture and soundtrack, how he developed the unusual sequential drawings for DAMON THE MOWER and his debt to Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren.
Language: English
Country: Canada
Year of release: 2013
Year of production: 1973
Subjects: Film studies
Keywords: animation films; Dunning, George

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