Richard Condie
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Born | Richard Condie 1942 (age 81–82) |
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Years active | 1971–present |
Richard Condie,
Education and career
Born in
Condie's best known animated work is 1985's
Condie co-produced fellow Winnipeg animator
Condie's work, featuring the constantly moving - "boiling" - line animation style, has been characterized as "wacky, weird, [and] bizarre."[6] Others have referred to his "raw visual style and insanely honest and humorous character portrayals."[3] University of Manitoba film historian Gene Walz stated that Condie "is an auteur-animator, one with excellent antennae for sensing society's ridiculous foibles and painful vulnerabilities."[7]
Condie is a founding member of the Winnipeg Film Group, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and the International Animated Film Association.[2]
Collaborators
Throughout his career, Condie collaborated with a very small number of individuals to create his films. He worked closely with musician Patrick Godfrey.[8] Another close collaborator was Condie's sister, Sharon Condie. John Law and the Mississippi Bubble was inspired by Sharon's research; she also wrote the script, did some of the animation and painted backgrounds for the film.[9] She also created the backgrounds for two other of Condie's films, Getting Started (1979) and The Big Snit (1985).[10] Other collaborators included actor (and singer) Jay Brazeau and producers Michael Scott and Ches Yetman.[11]
Awards and legacy
Richard Condie won six international awards for
In addition to Condie's many awards, his films have been featured in over 100 exhibitions and major retrospectives all over the world. These have taken place in such widely diverse locations as Berkeley, California (1980), New Delhi, India (1981), London, England (1985), Kraków, Poland (1986), Espinho, Portugal (1991), and Brussels, Belgium (1998).[1]
In 2005 Condie donated drawings, animation cels, backgrounds, layouts, dope sheets, award notifications, exhibition programs, digitized photographs, as well as publication and periodical information related to a number of his films to the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.[12] Approximately 100 painted cels as well as two backgrounds created by Sharon Condie for the film The Big Snit were acquired by the University of Manitoba Libraries and deposited in the Archives in 2006.[2]
Selected filmography
- Sesame Street (1974–1975) (Director, Writer, TV)
- Oh Sure (1977)
- John Law and the Mississippi Bubble (1978)
- Getting Started (1979)
- Pig Bird (1981)
- The Big Snit (1985)
- Heartland (1987) (IMAX)
- Another Government Movie, World Expo 88, Brisbane (1988) (Director)
- The Cat Came Back (1988) (Producer; voice actor as Mr.Johnson)
- The Apprentice (L'Apprenti) (1991)
- Another Government Movie, Seville Expo '92 (1992) (Director)
- La Salla (1996)
- The Ark (2002) (Creator, Director, Animator, TV series)
- Etudes and Impromptus (2003-04)
- Runaway (2009) (voice actor as Captain)
- Bus Story (2014) (voice actor as Little Kids and Teenager)
Music
- A House on the Prairie (1978)
- Day Dream (1979)
- The Top Few Inches (1978)
- Darts in the Dark: An Introduction to W.O. Mitchell (1980)
- W.O. Mitchell: Novelist in Hiding (1980)
- Henry Kelsey (1980)
- Everyone's Business (1982)
- Ocean of Wisdom from CBC's Man Alive (1989)
References
- ^ a b University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, Richard Condie fonds, A05-93, "Biographical Information."
- ^ a b c "Richard Condie fonds"
- ^ a b "Richard Condie Biography"
- ^ The 100 Most Influential Sequences in Animation History - Vulture
- ISBN 1-878685-49-X]
- ^ a b "Richard Condie" Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Richard Condie"
- ^ Patrick Godfrey, Animations.
- ^ Ohayon, Albert. "John Law and the Mississippi Bubble: The Madness of Crowds". NFB.ca Blog. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ^ National Film Board, Getting Started, 1979; The Big Snit, 1985.
- ^ a b "Richard Condie"
- ^ Walker, Morley. "The Big Gift." Winnipeg Free Press, February 7, 2008.
External links
- Richard Condie's Home Page
- Watch Richard Condie films at NFB.ca
- Canadian Film Encyclopedia A publication of The Film Reference Library/a division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group
- Richard Condie at IMDb
- Bio of Condie
- "The Big Snit - Official Fanclub" on Facebook
- "Richard Condie fonds" A description of Richard Condie's archives held by the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections
- Richard Condie: Aarrgg!! An exhibition of works by Richard Condie at Gallery One One One at the University of Manitoba