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animated short by Christopher Hinton, which received the

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at the

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. In this

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short, Hinton animates to an original modern classical composition by

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-based composer

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. Influenced by

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and

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, the film was computer-animated and represented a departure for Hinton, who generally used

traditional animation Traditional animation (or classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation) is an animation technique in which each frame is drawing, drawn by hand. The technique was the dominant form of animation of the 20th century, until there wa ...

techniques.

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