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"Rupert"
Airdate TBA
Featuring "Rupert," "The Brief Social Life of Charles Wickham," "Herman & Sally," and "Gestures" with guests Donald Mustard and faculty hosts Brent Adams and Kelly Loosli.
BYU faculty members Brent Adams and Kelly Loosli discuss early award-winning animations from the mid to late 90's that garnered enough attention to help their program evolve and ultimately develop into the recently created BYU Animation Center. "The Brief Social Life of Charles Wickham" won a student emmy, and many from its student crew went on to work on "Rupert," which largely helped establish the collaborative methods used in the department today. "Herman & Sally" is a uniquely ambitious cell drawing short, as it was a combined BFA project between the directors.
READ A REVIEW OF THIS EPISODE FROM BYU ENGLISH PROFESSOR AND AUTHOR OF THE "MORMON LITERATURE DATABASE" GIDEON BURTON HERE.
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MORE ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS:
After graduating with a BA in Design from BYU in 1998, Ben Cloward began a career in the video game industry as an animator. He provided character animation for console games including Robotech: Battlecry, Spy vs Spy, Curious George, and Flushed Away. Ben is currently working for Bioware as the Senior Technical Animator on an unannounced massively multi-player online game. He lives with his wife and five children in Austin, Texas.
Ben enjoys being a mentor and helping students who are interested in getting into the video game industry. He'd love to answer any questions people have or get in touch with anyone who needs some help breaking in. Learn more about Ben here.
"The Brief Social Life of Charles Wickham"
"Herman & Sally"
"Gestures"
"Gobo the Basketball"
Airs Feb 4 at 9:00 pm
Features "Gobo: The Basketball", "8 Minutes at 325 Degrees," and "Nocturnal," with former student Todd Wahlquist and faculty hosts Brent Adams and Kelly Loosli.BYU animation faculty members Brent Adams and Kelly Loosli discuss the painstaking process of computer animation and claymation in early works by ambitious student pioneers which laid the foundation for BYU's current animation program. As we feature these early works, the discussions focus on the resources available over a decade ago, and how the animation department has evolved since those early years.
"8 Minutes at 325 Degrees"
"Nocturnal"
MORE ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS:
Kelly Loosli has worked in animation and live action production for the past fourteen years, working on both the artistic and managerial sides of the industries. Mr. Loosli began his career as a clay animator for television commercials at the age of 15. While attending Brigham Young University he received a Student Emmy for his clay animated film entitled "Nocturnal." Some of Mr. Loosli's additional work experience includes DreamWorks Feature Animation working on Films like "Shrek" and "Spirit," and Buena Vista Motion Pictures, the live action division of Walt Disney. Mr. Loosli has spent the last two years helping create Brigham Young University's animation program while teaching animation and storyboarding, while also completing production of the animated feature "The Princess and the Pea" for Feature Films for Families. Mr. Loosli is currently working with University students to complete a Disney style animated short film based on the Aesop fable "The Lion and the Mouse."
After graduating with a BA in Design from BYU in 1998, Ben Cloward began a career in the video game industry as an animator. He provided character animation for console games including Robotech: Battlecry, Spy vs Spy, Curious George, and Flushed Away. Ben is currently working for Bioware as the Senior Technical Animator on an unannounced massively multi-player online game. He lives with his wife and five children in Austin, Texas.
