Sketches from the River Run Film festival and Beyond!
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| Ty B. Bear is just floating away during the River Run Festival |
This past week was another “burner”. We drove up to Winston-Salem, NC. for the River Run International Film Festival and our son Matt was performing as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at NCSA. Both events were amazing!
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| River Run Festival was VERY, VERY well programmed. It opened Wednesday night with Paris, Je T’Ame a wonderful film with 18 vignettes from the different sections of the “City of Lights”. The actors were wonderful! Animation Director Sylvain Chomet even did one of the live-action vignettes about how 2 mimes meet.
There were documentaries, shorts, animated shorts and some morning talks at local venues and cafes with a focus on animation. OUT OF OUR MINDS ANIMATION STUDIO hosted many of the programs. Folks from PIXAR were there to participate in a panel discussion and to host their own event. Other animators from R & H, Blue Sky also participated. This time I attended as a civilian animator- that gave me time before, during and after the events to draw. Here are a few sketches….
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| Here is a view out of the window from a new coffeehouse on Tybee Island |
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| This is a composite sketch over a 1/2 hour stretch of time. These people in line, just came and went. The fellow is the ball cap is drawn twice |
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| Here are some folks from Performance Place on the NCSA campus |
In the the case of the rather “plump” security guard- I couldn’t stand there and draw - as an artist. I was attracted by the line from his spine down and around to his bum - that was my starting point (once I sat down in inside the theater).
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The last location on this drawing is inside Leapold’s Ice Cream Parlor. Stratton Leopold’s father and brothers had a store 40 or 50 years ago and about three years ago Strattan and his wife Mary recreated the store. Strattan is a film producer, SUM of ALL FEARS, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3 to name just a couple. Anyhow… that’s where the movieola came from…
STILL ANIMATED!!!
August 21st, 2008 at 2:00 am e
ncsa…
I can’t believe I missed this! I’m going to have to do some more reading me thinks….