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Copymotion - Darino Xerox Animation
Eduardo Darino is a Uruguayan film producer, director, animator, and cartoonist. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, he studied law at the Universidad de la Republica and came to New York in 1973 where he still resides. During his career he has drawn multiple cartoon characters, produced several films, and made multiple television series and documentaries both in Uruguay and the United States. Films in Uruguay In his early years Darino had no access to a camera, so, inspired by Norman McLaren, his first experiments with animation included scratching and painting on the film stock itself. Animation He participated actively in the Cine Club del Uruguay and taught himself how to make film. His earliest work, ''Creacion'' (1963), is the first animation to be created over stock film and hand-painted in Uruguay. It was screened at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, receiving a Certificate. Darino's next films, ''El Idolo'', ''Sombras sin Luces'' and ''Sombras y Luc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montevideo
Montevideo () is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . Montevideo is situated on the southern coast of the country, on the northeastern bank of the Río de la Plata. The city was established in 1724 by a Spanish soldier, Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst the Spanish- Portuguese dispute over the platine region. It was also under brief British rule in 1807, but eventually the city was retaken by Spanish criollos who defeated the British invasions of the River Plate. Montevideo is the seat of the administrative headquarters of Mercosur and ALADI, Latin America's leading trade blocs, a position that entailed comparisons to the role of Brussels in Europe. The 2019 Mercer's report on quality of life, rated Montevideo first in Latin America, a rank the city has consistently held since 2005. , Montevideo was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Lee (director)
Francis Lee (born 1969, TIFF interview from the end of 2017 where he states that he has turned 48.) is an English filmmaker who has written and directed the films '' God's Own Country'' (2017) and ''Ammonite'' (2020). Life and career Francis Lee grew up on his family's farm in Soyland, Calderdale, West Yorkshire. After finishing school, he studied acting at the Rose Bruford College and worked in the theatre afterwards. Lee first appeared on television in 1994 in ''Peak Practice'', which was followed by guest roles in television series like ''Midsomer Murders'', ''Heartbeat'' and ''Casualty''. In cinema, he had small roles in Mike Leigh's ''Topsy-Turvy'' (1999) and in Sandra Goldbacher's '' Me Without You'' (2001). Although working as a director today, he never trained at a film school. In the 2000s, Lee lost interest in acting and wanted to tell his own stories. While working at a scrapyard, he made his directing debut with the short film ''The Farmer's Wife'' (2012), followed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Neruda
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection ''Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair'' (1924). Neruda occupied many diplomatic positions in various countries during his lifetime and served a term as a Senator for the Chilean Communist Party. When President Gabriel González Videla outlawed communism in Chile in 1948, a warrant was issued for Neruda's arrest. Friends hid him for months in the basement of a house in the port city of Valparaíso, and in 1949 he escaped through a mountain pass near Maihue Lake into Argentina; he would not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marketa Kimbrell
Marketa Kimbrell (née Nitschová; August 1, 1928 – July 6, 2011) was a Czechoslovakian-born American actress and professor of acting and film directing. In 1970, she and actor Richard Levy founded the New York Street Theater Caravan, a theater company which brought stage productions to audiences who otherwise might not have access to theater. Her target audiences included prisoners, coal mining towns, rural communities, Native American reservations, and low income inner city neighborhoods. Personal life Kimbrell was born near Prague in 1928 to Alfred and Josefina Nitsch. She wed an American Army major named George Kimbrell, whom she met at a refugee camp in Germany in 1945 following World War II. She moved to the United States with Kimbrell and was cast in stage, television shows and film. George Kimbrell died in 1952. She taught as a full-time professor of acting and film directing at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University from 1970 until her retirement i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasna
Rasna is a soft drink concentrate brand owned by ''Pioma Industries'' which is based in Ahmedabad, India. It was launched in mid-seventies but started gaining popularity in the eighties when the market was dominated by carbonated soft drinks like Thums up, Gold Spot and Limca. As of 2009, Rasna had a 93% market share in the soft drink concentrate market in India and as of 2011, the company had a turnover of . Additionally, its very popular among children , Rasna operates over 40 mock tail bars across India under brand 'Rasna Buzz'. These bars are targeted to the Indian tastes by youngsters and offer variety of products on menu such as soda-based drinks, milkshakes, sundaes and specially created mocktails, Mirchi Mango, Masala Orange, Minty Jeera Lemonade, Kala Khatta Buzz etc. Rasna Buzz also offers these drinks with Indian cuisine like idli, batata vada apart from the regular burgers, pasta, momos and french fries. The first of such bar was opened at Pune in 2019. Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toy Story
''Toy Story'' is a 1995 American computer-animated comedy film directed by John Lasseter (in his feature directorial debut This is a list of film directorial debuts in chronological order. The films and dates referred to are a director's first commercial cinematic release. Many film makers have directed works which were not commercially released, for example early work ...), produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The first installment in the Toy Story (franchise), '' Toy Story'' franchise, it was the Firsts in animation, first entirely computer-animated feature film, as well as the first feature film from Pixar. It was written by Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen (writer), Joel Cohen, and Alec Sokolow from a story by Lasseter, Stanton, Pete Docter, and Joe Ranft. The film features music by Randy Newman, was produced by Bonnie Arnold and Ralph Guggenheim, and was executive-produced by Steve Jobs and Edwin Catmull. The film features the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luxo Jr
''Luxo Jr.'' is a 1986 American computer animation, computer-animated short film produced and released by Pixar. Written and directed by John Lasseter, the two-minute short film revolves around one larger and one smaller Light fixture, desk lamp. The larger lamp, named Luxo Sr., looks on while the smaller, "younger" Luxo Jr. (character), Luxo Jr. plays exuberantly with a ball to the extent that it accidentally deflates. ''Luxo Jr.'' was Pixar's first animation after Edwin Catmull, Ed Catmull and John Lasseter left Industrial Light & Magic's computer division of Cinetron Computer Systems. The film is the source of Luxo Jr., the mascot of Pixar. Lasseter aimed to finish the short film for the 1986 SIGGRAPH, an annual computer graphics conference attended by thousands of industry professionals. The film would come from his experiments with modeling his Luxo lamp. Lasseter worked to improve the story within the allotted two minutes. In animation, the film demonstrates the use of shad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Typestry
Typestry is a 3D software program released in the 1990s by Pixar for Apple Macintosh and Windows-based PC computer systems ($299 US). Unlike general purpose modellers and rendering (computer graphics), renderers, Typestry concentrated on rendering and animating text entered by the user in multiple fonts. The fonts were extruded into three dimensions, with various bevel styles and textures applied during rendering. Typestry creates 3D text with Type 1 and TrueType fonts and can do many different effects: * 4 different bevel styles * add Looks * 9 front and 9 back lights (total 18 lights, turn off/on by change intensity, can shift relative positions, select lighting style for each light) * one ambient front and one ambient back light * scale, move, and rotate objects * animate text * animate lights * Export TIFF, EPS, PICT, RIB file format Version 2.0 * Load EPS file from Adobe Illustrator 3.0+ * Particle system * Put text on rubber sheets for flag effect * Use tubes for out line te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3d Max
Autodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio and 3D Studio Max, is a professional 3D computer graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images. It is developed and produced by Autodesk Media and Entertainment. It has modeling capabilities and a flexible plugin architecture and must be used on the Microsoft Windows platform. It is frequently used by video game developers, many TV commercial studios, and architectural visualization studios. It is also used for movie effects and movie pre-visualization. 3ds Max features shaders (such as ambient occlusion and subsurface scattering), dynamic simulation, particle systems, radiosity, normal map creation and rendering, global illumination, a customizable user interface, and its own scripting language. History The original 3D Studio product was created for the DOS platform by the Yost Group, and published by Autodesk. The release of 3D Studio made Autodesk's previous 3D rendering package AutoShade obsolete. After 3D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autodesk Animator
Autodesk Animator is a 2D computer animation and painting program published in 1989 for MS-DOS. It was considered groundbreaking when initially released.Graphics - Winner: Autodesk Animator ''"Robert Bennett, Lewis Gartenberg, David Kalish, Jim Kent, Jack Powell, Gary Yost"'' on pcmag.com (1989) Functionality Animator gave the ability to do frame-by-frame animation (creating each frame as an individual picture, much like ) . Animator Studio also had features (transforming one shape into another by le ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Venture Bros
''The Venture Bros.'' is an American adult animated action comedy TV series created by Chris McCulloch (also known as "Jackson Publick") for Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim. Following a pilot episode on February 16, 2003, the series premiered on August 7, 2004. ''The Venture Bros.'' was one of Adult Swim's longest-running original series in terms of years, and had the record for fewest seasons produced of a scripted show per year of continuous production, with seven produced seasons over fifteen years of production. Throughout its run, the series has received critical acclaim for its writing, characters, humor, animation and world building. It ended its run on October 7, 2018, with a total of 81 episodes over the course of 7 seasons, as well as 4 specials. On September 7, 2020, series creator Jackson Publick announced on Twitter that the series had been canceled. On May 12, 2021, it was announced a direct-to-video film is currently in production and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copymotion - Darino Xerox Animation
Eduardo Darino is a Uruguayan film producer, director, animator, and cartoonist. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, he studied law at the Universidad de la Republica and came to New York in 1973 where he still resides. During his career he has drawn multiple cartoon characters, produced several films, and made multiple television series and documentaries both in Uruguay and the United States. Films in Uruguay In his early years Darino had no access to a camera, so, inspired by Norman McLaren, his first experiments with animation included scratching and painting on the film stock itself. Animation He participated actively in the Cine Club del Uruguay and taught himself how to make film. His earliest work, ''Creacion'' (1963), is the first animation to be created over stock film and hand-painted in Uruguay. It was screened at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, receiving a Certificate. Darino's next films, ''El Idolo'', ''Sombras sin Luces'' and ''Sombras y Luc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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