Bob Sabiston

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Bob Sabiston
Born1967 (age 56–57)
United States
Occupation(s)
programmer

Bob Sabiston (born 1967) is an American film

short films
, including God's Little Monkey (1994), "Beat Dedication" (1988), and "Grinning Evil Death" (1990). "Grinning Evil Death" was widely seen on the first episode of MTV's "Liquid Television" show. "God's Little Monkey" won the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for 1994.

In 1997, he developed his interpolating

graphic artists in the Austin area[citation needed] to help make Richard Linklater's film Waking Life.[2]

After Waking Life Sabiston spent several years making more rotoscoped short films, including "Yard", "Earthlink Sucks", "Grasshopper". He directed a series of shorts for the PBS show "Life360". In 2003 he directed a short segment for the Lars von Trier film The Five Obstructions. Both "Grasshopper" and "The Five Obstructions" were shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004.

In 2004 Sabiston was hired as Head of Animation for Richard Linklater's

Charles Schwab
.

Sabiston developed Rotoshop as a means to make rotoscoping easier for artists by automating the

Flat Black Films
.

Sabiston is also the creator of Inchworm Animation, a paint and animation program for the Nintendo DSi. It was released on April 25, 2011 in North America and subsequently in Europe, Australia, and Japan.[3] A follow-up successor to the app, Butterfly: Inchworm Animation II was announced in October 2016 for the Nintendo 3DS. It was released the same month via the North American Nintendo eShop. A European and Japanese release is set to follow suit. The new app supports new raster and animation tools, sounds effects, and has native online sharing functions.[4]

Since 2008 Sabiston has developed several apps for iOS: the 3d mind-mapping app Headspace, the modeling/3D-printing app Voxel, the video game Retroid, and a drawing keyboard, Jot Keyboard. In 2015, he released Lowlander, a tribute to Richard Garriott's classic video game Ultima II.

References

  1. ^ G4TV
  2. ^ Kehr, Dave (October 14, 2001). "FILM; Waking Up While Still Dreaming". The New York Times. Retrieved July 6, 2010.
  3. ^ Nintendolife.com
  4. Nintendo Life
    . Retrieved October 20, 2016.

External links

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