Chris Landreth

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Chris Landreth
Born (1961-08-04) August 4, 1961 (age 62)
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation(s)director, animator, writer

Chris Landreth (born August 4, 1961) is an American animator working in Canada, best known for his work on the 2004 film Ryan. He has made many CGI animated films since the mid-1990s, including The End, Bingo, The Listener, Caustic Sky: A Portrait of Regional Acid Deposition, and Data Driven The Story Of Franz K.

Life and career

After being an engineer for years, Landreth quit and began a second career as an animator. He received a BS (1984) in general engineering and an MS (1986) degree in theoretical and applied mechanics at the

Maya, from the Toronto-based animation firm, Alias (formerly Alias|wavefront, now owned by Autodesk
).

This resulted in the productions of The End and Bingo. The End was nominated in 1996 for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Afterward, he met Ryan Larkin, a renowned animator in the 1960s and 1970s, who had recently fallen into a spiral of excessive drinking, cocaine abuse, and homelessness. This resulted in the 2004 production of Ryan, which won an Oscar in 2005.

Landreth's 2009 film

Seneca College, The Spine depicts a man who's physically and figuratively spineless and the breakdown of his marriage.[1]

Annecy animation Festival
2013.

In 2016, he created the animated vignette Be Cool for the NFB satirical public service announcement series, Naked Island.[3]

Landreth is currently an

artist in residence at the Dynamic Graphics Project of the University of Toronto. He is working on a feature-length adaptation of Hans Rodionoff, Enrique Breccia and Keith Giffen's graphic-novel biography of H.P. Lovecraft.[4]

Landreth's films Ryan, The Spine and Subconscious Password were included in the

Animation Show of Shows
.

Landreth is a master with The Beijing DeTao Masters Academy (DTMA), a high-level, multi-disciplined, application-oriented higher education institution in Shanghai, China.

"Psychorealism"

Landreth uses standard CGI animation in his work, with the added element of what he calls Psychorealism. This often puts a surrealist styling into his work, notably The End, Bingo, The Spine, and Ryan. For instance, in Ryan, people's psychological traumas are represented by twisted, surreal lacerations and deformities. As people depicted in the film get distraught, their faces distort. At one time in the interview, Ryan gets so upset he literally flies apart.

Psychorealism is a style first put into words by Landreth to refer to what Karan Singh described as "the glorious complexity of the human psyche depicted through the visual medium of art and animation." [1]

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Title of work Result
1995 Academy Awards Best Animated Short Film The End Nominated
2004 Academy Awards Best Animated Short Film Ryan Won

Sources

References

  1. ^ Dixon, Guy (Jul 3, 2009). "Landreth's Spine named best of fest at Melbourne". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
  2. ^ Sarto, Dan (6 May 2013). "Chris Landreth Talks Subconscious Password". Animation World Network. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  3. ^ Amidi, Amid (2017-01-20). "NFB Launches 'Naked Island,' A Dark Series of Micro-Shorts by Top Animators". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 2017-01-22.
  4. ^ Wilner, Norman (Jun 12, 2009). "Spine-tingling short". Now Magazine.

External links

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