Boar Attack Backgrounds

This show was a presentation of designs, working drawings, and background paintings resulting from the creation of my latest animated film, “Boar Attack”.  These include watercolour paintings, ink drawings and sketchbook pages.  At the rear of the gallery, the actual animation was looping on a television and a chair, similar to the TV and chair in the film.

 

The paintings were framed by myself, using old wood I found in the lot next to my cabin when I was living in Yukon Territory. 

 

“Backgrounds” was my first experiment with combining painting and animation to create a new way of experiencing both media.

 

I believe that animation shown at festivals and

on TV doesn’t give an accurate presentation of animation as an art form.  I see animation as a cross between film and drawing, and I wonder if screenings sometimes place animation more as “entertainment” than “art”.  A gallery setting might give people more time to consider the medium.

 

My next film, “Perfect Detonator”, was created with a multimedia presentation fully in mind.   The Perfect Detonator gallery show will tour across Canada in 2011 and 2012.