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showcase: Antagonia – Nicolas Brault, 2002

By sir warren b leonhardt on October 26, 2010

This short animation film takes place in a topsy-turvy land of ice, water and sky. Montreal-based Nicolas Brault is a graphic artist who works in a wide range of styles and techniques. He works as a computer graphic artist, graphic designer, scriptwriter, director and animator. Among other works, he has made four animated shorts that have attracted attention on the international festival circuit.

Antagonia picked up an Honourable Mention award at the 2002 CINEMANIMA festival in Portugal. Islet won the top prize in the Animation category at Vancouver’s VIDFEST in 2004. Hungu, his most successful film, took home two international awards in the U.S.

The Circus is his fourth film with the NFB, it’s my personal favourite of his, and will be screening across Canada as part of the Get Animated! event happening Thursday, Oct. 28.

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Warren Leonhardt spent too much time watching tv, reading comics, or doodling in his math textbooks to really pay attention, but he thinks he was raised the Kootenays of British Columbia by two grownups and a sister. After realizing that cartoons and animated films don’t make themselves but were actually made by people, he decided to become one of those people. Over time he’s managed to fool companies like House of Cool, Disney Canada, Spümcø, Sony Pictures Animation, Blue Sky Studios and Corus into actually paying him money to draw funny pictures and generally goof around as a storyboard artist for animated features and television. He currently lives in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada with his long-suffering wife and toddler. In between drawing till his hand falls off and fending off the wildlife invading his property, he interviews people more interesting than himself for CAR.CA.

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2 Comments

  1. Ariel Ariel October 26, 2010

    Very different films.

    Antagonia is simple and sketchy, which I like. The Circus was beautifully drawn, but I couldn’t get past the rotoscoping part. I just don’t get the same feeling from rotoscoping, as opposed to an artists “own” interpretation of animation(*movement)

    Hungu is also a favourite of mine. Excellently executed and sincere storytelling.

  2. w w October 26, 2010

    Yeah, it’s funny – for my part I generally dislike rotoscope as well. But there was something about his use of it in ‘The Circus’ that I liked – it felt more like a horrible dream, almost real, but still amorphous and creepy.

    For me it kind of fit the type of story he was trying to tell, whereas using that method in say, ‘Hungu’, wouldn’t work very well, I think.

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