I decided to base my presentation around "Plymptoons" because they create Animations that appeal greatly to me. I enjoy their style as well as the short narratives that they create.
From what I found in my research, Plymptoons mainly consists of just Bill Plympton. Bill Plympton was born in Portland, Oregon and he is 70. According to his website, the weather wasn't very good growing up, so he was encouraged to stay in doors a lot, which in turned encouraged him to practice being creative. he has created over 40 animated shorts, and six animated features as well as a few music videos. He has animated The Simpsons opening "couch gag sequence" 3 times. He is probably best known for his 1987 Academy award nominated short, Your Face.
I chose to research into Plymptoons because of the sketchy and expressive aesthetic of the animations.Plymptons shorts are quirky, crazy and kind of gross at times, but overall are very entertaining. I also feel like I am drawn to his animations because I have quite a short attention span, and his animations are quite spontaneous. I couldn't find anything about what software is used to create his animations, however I presume he just uses traditional pencil and paper.
Because there is quite a lot of money in advertising, I don't blame Bill Plympton to contribute. He has created unique commercials for Taco bell, Nike Gieco and various of businesses. His Nik Nak advert is probably his most known commercial work in the UK.
Your Face is a fun and experimental short, that is weird and sketchy. This short I feel almost captures his whole aesthetic and aim. It's free-flowing and interesting transitions explore the fundamentals of animation and successfully depict textures and movements.
This animated short is set in a restaurant and captures a weird and quite insane series of events. It's visually driven as there isn't a lot of dialogue. According to an interview with Bill Plympton with Sguiggly, The lack of dialogue was down to the translation cost.
This animated film had 2 stars on IMDB. It was a Mockumentary that was "A re-imagining of the life and dreams of Hitler, it explores his unfulfilled animation career. Apparently 3 of his staff quit early on in the production process due to the tone and subject of the animation. Even though it clearly is satire, it is quite a sensitive subject to base a feature length animation on.
Plymptoons has created many animations but here are a few of the well known ones. Guard dog is an Oscar nominated animation that demonstrates how crazy and silly dogs can be, whereas Cheatin' is about couples rough and patchy journey in their relationship.
Overall, Plymptoons has created various animations that have various different subjects.
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