4/8/2023 0 Comments Pencil animation short filmDon doesn’t think people should necessarily reject computers (or commercial work), he just doesn’t think they should reject pencils either, believing that we should be free to choose from all the methods of animating that have been developed in the hundred years since animation was born, each method having its own unique strengths. This cult outsider position is confirmed by his policy of not making corporate sponsored films or commercials, despite many offers, although he stresses this is a matter of personal artistic choice not some kind of political campaign. Not content with going back to before the digital era in his methods he also goes back to before cel animation, animating with pencil on paper and shooting that straight on film on a rostrum camera, all his equipment rescued from the rubbish skips of the big animation studios. Like indie rock bands using old lo-fi analogue recording technology for its warm wobbly feel, Hertzfeldt reverts to earlier techniques. He has, somewhat inadvertently, become a sort of figurehead for a kind of ‘lo-fi’ approach, different to most animators working today in the CG dominated industry in that he barely uses any computers in his films. Hertzfeldt is a bit of a phenomenon, his screenings and Q&As attracting the fanatical kind of support usually associated with rock bands. A century after Emile Cohl comes Don Hertzfeldt, an animator whose work seems to carry (unintentional) echoes of the French pioneer, not only in the simple stick figures but in the way that they both delight audiences while subverting the mainstream.
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