闲来无事，把一部经典动画片又翻出来看了一遍。

《老人与海》 (The Old Man and the Sea) 是海明威 (Ernest Hemingway) 最后的颠峰之作，发表于1952年，并使作者获得诺贝尔文学奖。 1997年,俄罗斯动画艺术家佩特洛夫将它搬上银屏,并荣获72届奥斯卡最佳动画短片奖.这是各艺术互相开放体系下的一次成功转换.该片是其所处时代背景下动画创作的先锋性与实验性的代表,是动画制作技术与艺术的新尝试.其充满写实性油画风格的画面、具有节奏感的叙事、视听语言的运用以及带给观者以强烈的视觉和心灵震撼。

佩特洛夫的玻璃油画确实是动画领域的一棵奇葩，他在15年的时间里坚持用手指沾上染料在玻璃上作画的方式表现自己的艺术诉求，其本身的形式已经足够让人敬仰。在这部22分钟的动画中，几乎每一桢都可以独立成为一幅美丽的油画，其在表现大海的壮阔气概，海天融合的层次上，具有十分强烈浓重的表现力度，层次分明的颜色过度和厚重的油墨渲染，令人感到天地的苍茫和老人的孤独。而水晶莹透亮的质感和天空飘渺悠远的空间处理已经炉火纯青。而在表现人物的表情方面，玻璃油画的方式同样具有很突出的特色，虽然面部细节并不清晰，但艺术家深厚的功力却令人物表情栩栩如生。

主要制作者 Alexander Petrov, Djoko Rosic, Venelin Trifonov, Nikolay Stoimenov, Valentin Goshev, Hristo Plamenov

资料

The Old Man and the Sea (French: Le Vieil Homme et la mer) is a 1999 paint-on-glass-animated short film directed by Aleksandr Petrov, based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film won many awards, including the Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Work on the film took place in Montréal over a period of two and a half years and was funded by an assortment of Canadian, Russian and Japanese companies. French and English-language soundtracks to the film were released concurrently. It was the first animated film to be released in IMAX.

History and technique

The project was initiated in 1995 after Petrov (who had made his first films in Russia) had his first meeting with Pascal Blais Studio, a Canadian animation studio. The film was partially funded by and was made at their studio. Other funding came from Imagica Corporation, Dentsu Tec and NHK from Japan, and Panorama studio from Yaroslavl, Russia (of which Aleksandr Petrov is the head).

Work on the film began on March 1997. It took Aleksandr Petrov and his son Dmitri Petrov (who helped his father) until April 1999 to paint each of the 29,000+ frames. The film's technique, pastel oil paintings on glass, is mastered by only a handful of animators in the world. Petrov used his fingertips in addition to various paintbrushes to paint on different glass sheets positioned on multiple levels, each covered with slow-drying oil paints. After photographing each frame painted on the glass sheets, which was four times larger than the usual A4-sized canvas, he had to slightly modify the painting for the next frame and so on. For the shooting of the frames a special adapted motion-control camera system was built, probably the most precise computerized animation stand ever made. On this an IMAX camera was mounted, and a video-assist camera was then attached to the IMAX camera.

Artistic style

The film's style is analogous to that used in Petrov's other films and can be characterized as a type of Romantic realism. People, animals and landscapes are painted and animated in a very realistic fashion, but there are sections where Petrov attempts to visually show a character's inner thoughts and dreams. For example, the film contains a scene where the fisherman dreams that he and the marlin are brothers swimming through the sea and the sky.

Awards

1999—Cinanima: "Grand Prize"
1999—Japan Media Arts Festival: "Grand Prize" (Animation)
1999—Montréal World Film Festival: Nominated for "First Prize (Short Films)"
2000—Academy Award for Animated Short Film
2000—Annecy International Animated Film Festival: "Audience Award", "Grand Prix for Best Animated Short Film"
2000—BAFTA Awards: Nominated for "Best Animated Short Film"
2000—Buster International Children's Film Festival: "Politiken's Short Film Award"
2000—Genie Awards: Nominated for "Best Animated Short Film"
2000—Jutra Awards: "Jutra" in the category "Best Animated Film"
2000—Mainichi Film Concours: "Ofuji Noburo Award"
2000—Saint Petersburg Message to Man International Film Festival: "Special Jury Prize" in the category "International Competition"
2000—Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films: "First Prize" in "Category C - 15 Min. to 30 Min."
2001—Burbank International Children's Film Festival: "Director's Gold Award"
2001—San Diego International Film Festival: "Festival Award" in the category "Best Animation"

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