His mouth first travels to his forehead, then all of his facial features somersault before his skull twists up like a corkscrew and breaks apart, then reunites. Animator bill plympton earned his first oscar nomination in 1987 with the short film your face, but it was his 2004 short guard dog also oscarnominated that gave him a character audiences wanted to see again and again. Shortshd acquires bill plymptons library of shorts and features for distribution. Your face, by bill plympton animation show of shows. Revengeance is my 8th handdrawn animated feature film and the first being done with a creative partner, writerartist jim lujan.
The complete early works of bill plympton offers up a delicious dose of mutated humor, from plymptons first film created during his college days, self portrait, to the academy awardrnominated your face, his first solo effort. The original music and lyrics for bill plymptons your face. Guard dog, guide dog, and hot dog the most recent, horn. Plymptoons studio started in 1987 with the creation of the bill plymptons oscar nominated short film your face. In which the noted animator puts us through some strange changes. Born in portland, oregon, on april 30, 1946, plympton developed a fascination with animation as a child. Bill plympton biography, movie highlights and photos.
Independently animated, a book about indie animator bill. Bill plympton is an american animator, cartoonist, director, screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 academy awardnominated animated short. Bill plympton was born on april 30, 1946 in portland, oregon, usa. He is known for his work on idiots and angels 2008, cheatin 20 and. He began his career creating cartoons for publications such as new york times, national lampoon, playboy and screw. It has been seen in his short films, commercials, music videos, and promos. Bill plympton studio directory big cartoon database. This 1988 academy award nominee is the film that set the style and started the career of bill plympton. Bill plympton is raising funds for bill plymptons revengeance an animated feature film on kickstarter. Bill plympton your face original slow speed youtube. An oscarnominated animator and cartoonist, bill plympton has been amusing and provoking audiences with his surrealist, offkilter take on everyday life for years. Bill plympton funds animated feature through kickstarter. Born and raised in portland, oregon, bill plympton on vimeo. Dryden theatre celebrates animation with the weird world.
Your face is a twisted classic, an nonstop exercise in transformation. Plympton deliberately aims for mature audiences and makes personal pictures with sexual, violent and sometimes political content. Shortshd acquires bill plymptons library of shorts and. One of the most profitable short films ever made, its still showing all over the world. Heard without the distortion, it really is a lovely song. When he was fourteen, he sent disney some of his cartoons and offered up his services as animator. Plympton is considered the king of indie animation and is the first person to hand draw an entire animated feature film. Bill plymptons dog days is a collection of more of his marvelous short films, featuring primarily his dog series. Plymptons usual style is spare, simple scenes on a. The deal encompasses all seven of the plympton feature films the tune, i married a strange person. All his life, bill plympton has been fascinated by animation. Bill plymptons first attempt at animation was a short promotional film for a yearbook he edited while attending portland state university in the mid1960s. Factory, a multiplatform media company, has acquired the library of acclaimed animator and cartoonist bill plympton.
Your face is a 1987 animated short film by bill plympton. Plymptons perhaps best known for his 1987 animated short called your face, about a man in a chair crooning. But, when one watches several of plymptons short films in a row as in watching the dog days compilation dvd several other, more nuanced, details about his style become apparent. It involves a man seated in a chair crooning about the face of his lover, and as he sings, his own face starts to distort in various ways. I was attending comicon an annual comic convention, where i showed a clip from strange person, some of my shortstalked about the film, handed out flyers, and generally.
His song ends abruptly when a mouth opens in the floor and swallows him and the chair whole. Hes an oscarnominated animator and cartoonist who grew up in oregon city. Plympton animation university classes plymptoons store. His films and shorts have featured everything from outlandish 1950sstyle monsters to musicals about sexual fantasies to the truth about santas fascist past. Bill plymptons mockumentary hitlers folly to release for. Bill moved to new york city in 1968 and began his career creating cartoons for publications such as new york times, national lampoon, playboy and screw. Plymptoons the complete early works of bill plympton. Trump bites, animated by bill plympton by 110th street. Your face showcases a middleaged man in a business suit with a pencil moustache singing a love tune as his head constantly metamorphoses. A new animated feature film by bill plympton and jim lujan.
Bill plympton visits the dryden and presents his latest film, idiots and angels, at 8 p. A humorous forward was provided for the book by screenwriter, animator, and director terry gilliam. Plympton is considered the king of indie animation and is the only person to hand draw an entire animated feature film. Accompanied by the dulcet tones of your face is like a song, american indie filmmaker bill plymptons landmark short twists, curls, duplicates and explodes the human face in.
The dog, a goofylooking pooch always on the hunt for love, has gone on to star in three additional shorts, and inspired plympton to launch guard dog global jam, inviting. How to kiss especially the nibbling kiss and 25 ways to stop smoking are among the more memorable. Bill plympton, the antidisney goes cheatin huffpost. Oscarnominated in either 2003 or 2004 whats the protocol here.
Bill plympton born april 30, 1946 is an american animator, graphic designer, cartoonist, director, screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 academy awardnominated animated short your face and his series of shorts guard dog, guide dog, hot dog and horn dog. You can email bill your workinprogress as you follow along the class and get personal feedback and critique from. But dont let that innocent, boynextdoor look fool you. Bill plymptons jiggly animation style is easily recognizable. He began his career creating cartoons for publications such as the new york times, national lampoon, playboy and screw. The scratchy colored pencils, the absurdist visual humor sometimes grotesque, sometimes not.
His short filmssome as brief as 15 secondsmade between 1985 and 1991 showcase his unique talent much more effectively than his ponderous features, the tune and i married a. In 1960, when bill plympton was 14, he mailed some cartoons hed drawn to disney in the hope of being hired. As a secondrate crooner sings about the beauties of his lovers face, his own face metamorphosizes into the most surreal shapes and contortions. A series of short animated fantasies based on actual donald trump audio clips, handdrawn by academy award nominee bill plympton. Animator and filmmaker bill plymptons work has appeared in a diverse selection of publications ranging from the new york times, vanity fair, rolling stone and, of course, penthouse. He literally works outside the studio system by doing every aspect of his cartoons writing, drawing, coloring, filming, editing, etc. Plymptoons studio started in 1987 with the creation of the bill plympton s oscar nominated short film your face. Plymptoons home of bill plympton, the king of indie. Bill plymptons guard dog introduces the loveable hyperactive mutt that is quickly becoming the iconic animators signature character. As a followup to our post the other day about bill plymptons classic 1987 cartoon short your face, blogger rick unger has posted an mp3 file featuring the cartoons music in its original form, before singersongwriter maureen mcelherons voice was slowed down to sound sort of male. Film profile for bill plympton, director, born 30 april 1946. Now is your chance to take an 8lesson online animation production course with the king of independent animation, bill plympton.
Bill plympton s academy awardnominated your face goes the bob clampett route, with a mans face changing in all sorts of ways while he sings. The life and art of the king of indie animation, the new richly illustrated book by bill plympton and david levy, thoroughly follows life of master indieanimator plympton from his early formative years to his modernday successes. Academy award nominated bill plymptons new feature mockumentary hitlers folly, will be released for free download, on friday, june 3. Bill plymptons new animated feature film revengeance is. Films include abcs of death 2, idiots and angels, and your face. A journey through this politicalcartoonistturnedanimators canvas of animation, plymptoons. In this film, dog is so wrapped up in protecting his owner from threats real and imaginary mostly imaginary that he does more harm than good. Bill plympton is an american cartoonist who is best known as an independent animator. Plymptoons the classic works of bill plympton special. This short shows the heights that animation can reach when one puts ones imagination to it. The only modern animator to personally handdraw every frame in all of his work, academy awardnominee bill plympton eschewed a career in the highpaying but soulcrushing hollywood animation industry to explore his own creativity as an independent filmmaker. Independent animator bill plympton first received widespread public attention when his outre your face 1987 was nominated for an academy award for animated short. Animation pioneer bill plympton takes to kickstarter to fund his new feature film.
As a dreamily romantic song plays, the mans face changes and morphs in many bizarre and surreal ways. Bill plympton, stephen barr, bill plympton, bill plympton, p. The dryden theatre at george eastman house salutes animation with the film series the weird world of bill plympton, with screenings every thursday evening in september plus sunday, sept. If so, bill plympton would respectfully disagree with you. You might remember his immortal 25 ways to quit smoking, or the immortal your face. Bill plympton born april 30, 1946 is an american animator, graphic designer, cartoonist, and filmmaker best known for his 1987 academy awardsnominated animated short your face and his series of shorts guard dog, guide dog, hot dog, and horn dog.
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