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Shave It comes from directors Fernando Maldonado and Jorge Tereso of Bueno Aires, Argentina-based 3dar. The monkey at the center of the film is a stone-faced schemer with an environmentalist agenda. The filmmakers explain:
For us, it’s an ironic reflection about how nature adapts to the human invasion. We found a great inspiration in an Amazonian bird, the Lira, which imitates the sounds it hears in the environment. It does it with such a lack of criticism or judgment that it imitates the other birds singing, the power saws’ noise or the crash of the trees falling in the same way.
The filmmakers push all modes of stylization in this film from a hypersaturated color palette to 2D backgrounds/FX animation mixed in with the computer graphics. The angular monkey is a sight itself, with his shock of wavy electric-blue hair, floating ears, hinged mouth, and mask-like face that makes the stylized animals in DreamWorks’ Madagascar series look like naturalist depictions. All the elements are pulled together with expertise into a fun and attractive package. The development art posted on 3dar’s website gives a small taste of the effort that was invested to explore all the graphic possibilities.
CREDITS
Written and directed by
JORGE TERESO
FERNNADO MALDONADO
Art Direction
MARINA MUÑOZ
Executive production
FEDERICO HELLER
GERMAN HELLER
JORGE TERESO
Graphic design and 2D animation
JULIAN DORADO
3D art
MARTIN BERISSO
JUAN PABLO LANZO
MARCO LOCOCO
SANTIAGO TERESO
FEDERICO CARLINI
Post-production
LUCAS SALVIETTI
Production Assistant
REGINA PORCHIETTI
NATALIA TORIANO
Sound Production
GERMAN HELLER
Music and Foley
JULIEN BEGAULT
CYRILLE MARCHESSEAU
Musical Research
EZEQUIEL BARROS
Animation Direction
FERNANDO MALDONADO
Animation
MARCO LOCOCO
PAULA RAMOS
JORGE TERESO
Rigging
VINCENT SOUZA
MARTIN BERISSO
NAHUEL BELICH
Illumination and Rendering
JORGE TERESO
FEDERICO CARLINI
SANTIAGO TERESO
Creative Support
FEDERICO HELLER
MARINA MUÑOZ
JULIAN DORADO
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Curses! I was afraid of forgetting someone in my Buenos Aires post, and I did! Another friendly illustrator I met on my travels was Kelvin Osorio! Gracias Kelvin!
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He estado de visita en vuestra hermosa ciudad de Buenos Aires por dos meses ya (sólo unas pocas semanas más!) y tenido el gusto de conocer a varios ilustradores locales. Ahora, me gustaría tener la oportunidad de conocer más aun!
La idea es tenet una reunión casual, una noche de la semana próxima (probablemente en un resto-bar del barrio Palermo). Si están interesados, envíenme un mail a luclatulippe+bsas@gmail.com (contando si van solos o con acompañante) así sabemos la cantidad de gente que vendrá. Tal vez: Si sabe de un buen lugar (que podría tener más de 20 personas), por favor hágamelo saber.
He escogido dos fechas (28 de marzo, y 5 de abril) para que sea más fácil para todos. Voy a mantendremos informados sobre todos los detalles.**
Luego publicaremos fotos del evento, y links a los portfolios de cada uno, aquí en Drawn! :)
Luc
Gracias Leonardo Falaschini por ayudarnos con la organización y la traducción! N.del T: Thank you guys!
*Luc añadido y traducido esto con Google Translate, por lo que si hay errores .. lo siento!
Buenos Aires lllustrators’ MeetUp
¡Hola Buenos Aires!
I have been visiting your beautiful city for two months now (only a few more weeks to go!) and I have had the pleasure of meeting several local illustrators. And now I’d like a chance to meet more of you!
I’d like to suggest a casual meet-up one night next week for drinks (probably at a bar in Palermo). If you’re interested, send me an email at luclatulippe+BsAs@gmail.com (let me know if you’re bringing a friend, or coming alone) so we know how many people to expect. Also: If you know of a good location (one that might hold more than 20 people), please let me know.
I picked two dates (March 28, and April 5) to make it easier for everyone. I’ll keep you posted regarding all the details.
Afterward, I’ll post photos of the event, and links to everyone’s website here on Drawn! :)
Luc
ps: Thanks to Leonardo Falaschini for helping with the organizing and the translation!
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¡Hola Buenos Aires!
He... as of 1/1/1900
Ilustradores de Buenos Aires, esta noche es nuestra segunda reunión, así que espero que pueda unirse a nosotros! Details are on the Facebook Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/267807839969414/
If you feel like bringing anything, here are some suggestions
Samples of your work (portfolio, books, prints, etc..) to show everyone
Business cards (good for trading)
Do you have an exhibition coming up? Bring some promotional cards for everyone
Sketchbook and pen, if you feel like drawing caricatures of all of us tonight (if you do, that would be great! I’ll post them here on Drawn! after the meetup!)
This is mainly a casual meetup, just to chat and have a few drinks. I look forward to meeting you all! :)
cheers, Luc
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Goodbye cheap Malbec! I think I’ll miss you most of all! (Well, that and Argentine politics! Thank goodness for Google News Alerts.)
We leave Buenos Aires tomorrow, back to Vancouver. Once I’m back, I’ll be posting about our B.A. Illustrator Meetups and links to all the great illustrators I met. I’ll also be writing a post about the joys/downfalls of a “work vacation” as we attempted over the past three months.
¡Adios Argentina! Gracias por todos! Está siempre en nuestros corazones! Besos y abrazos!
~ Luc y Doug
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I’m home once again! I’d like to extend a huge THANK YOU to all the wonderful illustrators I met while I was visiting your amazing city. Your friendship and generosity helped make our visit extra special. And a great reminder for all illustrators that a community is always nearby; all you have to do is ask!
Atsa lotta Gaga. And you should see the rest of Adrian Valencia’s gorgeous illustrations on his website. (His Tumblr has lots more Gagas if you’re interested!!
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Lady Gaga by Adrian Valencia.
Atsa lotta... as of 1/1/1900
As I’ll be visiting Buenos Aires later this winter, I’ve been reading up on all things Argentinian (including re-watching The Motorcycle Diaries), so I was tickled when I stumbled upon this icon set of the iconic Che Guevara, designed by Jorge Alderete for an Argentinian type foundry named Sudtipos (who also created a lovely Calgary-inspired font named Calgary Script!).
Thor facial rig test in Softimage by Stephen McNally (Ireland)
Strip Tease by Natalianne Boucher, Camille Chabert, Marine Feuillade and Naïmé Perrette (France): “The technique consists of ‘cut-out’ animation (cutted paper, here added to tissues) then back projected on a wall and shot frame by frame.”
African plains, manes and stolen meals by Chris O’Hara (Ireland): “Featuring audio from Planes, Trains and Automobiles.“
Hugo Pratt Interview (en français). I’m not certain when this was shot exactly.
He talks here about how comics are seriously hard work, if you’re doing it right, and about the intense research he’d perform whenever embarking on a new project.
I’ve become a little obsessed with Pratt since arriving here (the apartment we’re staying in has, among many other wonderful books, 13 issues of Pratt’s Corto Maltese, which are helping me learn Spanish!), especially since I realized he also created “Jesuit Joe”, a sort of Native American Robin Hood, riding around the “frozen Canadian North” wearing a stolen RCMP jacket. Boss!
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On February 2, 1536, Spanish explorer Pedro de Mendoza founded the city he named Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Aire—Buenos Aires, Argentina. The new town was meant to spearhead the Spanish effort to colonize the interior of South America. It came less than two years after conquistadors had returned to Spain from Peru with treasures seized from the Inca empire.
Spain’s Charles I was spurred by the vast Inca wealth to seek further riches in South America. He also wanted to block any effort by Portugal to expand its foothold in Brazil. Accordingly, he commissioned Mendoza to mount an expedition to explore and settle the Río de la Plata, a vast estuary in southern South America that had been sighted back in 1516.
Mendoza set out in August 1535 in command of 800 to 1700 men (accounts vary) in around a dozen ships. The expedition — the largest sent from Spain to the Americas to date — was ill fated, however. A fierce storm blew the ships off course, and after regrouping Mendoza decided that one of his lieutenants was a rebel and had him executed. Troubles continued after the founding of Buenos Aires. At first the Spaniards received gifts of food from the indigenous locals but soon after fighting broke out between the two groups. That conflict cut off the chief source of food, and the Spaniards began to starve. Mendoza sent a lieutenant upriver in search of a friendlier site. He founded Asunción, now the capital of Paraguay.
Mendoza himself headed back to Spain in 1537. He was seriously ill — perhaps from syphilis — and died on the return trip. His settlement continued to struggle, and in 1541 the remaining colonists abandoned it, heading for Asunción. Not until 1580, when Juan de Garay returned to the scene, was a permanent Spanish presence established at Buenos Aires.
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Hermenegildo Sabat, very well-known Uruguayan-Argentine cartoonist, born in 1933. Read more about him on Wikipedia. He’s always been a very outspoken critic and his work has infuriated many a politician. :)
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Guillermo Martinez gives fresh meaning to the term "love triangle" in his story-within-a-story novel that also illustrates the bad end that comes of an old fart fantasizing about a younger woman.
Such reverie is second nature to a pair of Buenos Aires writers who hire the same fresh-faced young woman to whom each dictates a current novel.
The unnamed narrator of this work, ably translated by Sonia Soto, is a late-twenties writer with an injured hand. His publisher recommends Luciana, the eighteen year old clerk employed by Kloster, a reclusive and admired writer, who will be out of the country for the month of the writer's recuperation.
The writer begins to read signals in the woman's routines. Although the writer finds the woman's skills extraordinary, he finds her body substandard. Luciana has small breasts and round hips. Martinez is acutely aware of his character's sexism, and plays it up with the writer's description of Luciana's body, "before she sat down I noticed that from the waist down she suffered from the characteristic Argentinian asymmetry, as yet only incipient, of excessive hips."
The writer's passion gets an equivocal reward. He imposes a massage on an exposed neck. When Luciana doesn't protest he continues the massage routinely. It ends in a brief kiss, and her month is up.
When Luciana returns to her previous employer, Koster, he starts a massage routine of his own. When Koster puts a move on the woman, this time she screams and rushes away. There's a lawsuit, Koster must face up to sexual harassment, pay the penalty, and Lucia go on about her life with a difficult lesson.
Martinez spins the tale through Lucia's eyes into the writer's increasingly incredulous ears. Although outlandish, the writer finds Lucia's story of murder and revenge compellingly plausible. He saw and responded to the signals Lucia sent out, a young woman experimenting with her ability to entice a man's attention. He knows what allure the demure young woman radiates.
After Lucia charges Koster with sexual harassment, Koster's wife sues for divorce and keeps the child, who then drowns in her own bathtub. Lucia is convinced Koster blames Lucia and revenges himself by killing Lucia's boyfriend, mother, father, and brother.
That is the tale crazed Lucia relates so compellingly the writer makes an appointment to interview Koster for a book based around Lucia's charges. Koster tells the same story, from his point of view. Which novel will be truer to the fact?
For added fun, just as the reader is juggling Lucia's version against Koster's version against the narrator's version, it becomes clear that we are now reading the very novel our narrator has come to thrash about with Koster.
Innocent, or guilty. Coincidence, or revenge? Is Lucia broken and wrongfully accusing the great writer of a series of horrible crimes, or is the great writer a horrid monster exacting his revenge?
Martinez creates a comedy that closes with a chilling thought. Obviously, both Koster and our narrator are a pair of sexist fools, but Lucia paid the price. And what of Lucia's young sister, the spitting image of the older sister and only sixteen. She's fallen under Koster's protection. What if Koster is the monster Lucia saw, and Valentina will be his ultimate revenge?
Academics Call For Papers
MELUS, society for the study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, is organizing two panels at MLA in 2009. As MELUS-sponsored events, these panels welcome submissions from anyone interested in the study of multi-ethnic literature and culture but require those whose proposals are accepted to be members of the society.
Panel One: Ethnicity and the Short Story
Topics include all aspects of short fiction, including the short story cycle, relating to ethnicity. 250-word abstracts and 1-2 page vitae by Mar. 25 to Wenxin Li (liw@sunysuffolk.edu).
Panel Two: American Ethnic Bestsellers
Ethnic bestsellers. Popularizing ethnic fiction through marketing, reviewing, and book clubs. Aesthetic, political, and pedagogical implications. 250-word abstracts and 1-2 page vitae by Mar. 25 to Fred Gardaphe (fred.gardaphe@qc.cuny.edu).
http://webspace.ship.edu/kmlong/melus/
2009 Conference on Mesoamerica
La Bloga friend Roberto Cantu sends updated information on the Cal State LA conference,
May 15-16, 2009 Salazar Hall E184 California State University, Los Angeles
Conference Highlights
Keynote Speaker Prof. David Carrasco Founder and Director of the Mesoamerican Archive Neil L. Rudenstein Professor of the Study of Latin America Harvard University Title of Lecture: “Re-Discovering Aztlán and a Mesoamerican Odyssey: An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan” May 16 ***** Viewing of the film “Breaking the Maya Code” based on a book by Michael Coe with references to Tatiana Proskouriakoff’s life and work. May 15. ***** A two-hour decipherment workshop on Maya writing systems Presented by David Lebrun. May 16
The Ides will have come and gone by next Tuesday, so if your name is César, beware the Ides. Time Marches on, saving daylight from coast to coast except in certain locales.
mvs
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I’m enjoying the work of Argentinian children’s illustrator Poly Bernatene (blog here). Such wonderful textures! And, though I can’t read Spanish, if the email I received with a link to his work is to be believed, it’s all created in Photoshop (with a healthy dose of scanned-in textures, I’m certain).
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I've been living every day with my head in Buenos Aires, a city I've never visited, as I'm deep in revisions for my novel LIFE, AFTER. Part of my research has been watching news footage on YouTube of the bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (A.M.I.A) building on July 18th, 1994, as it figures heavily into the background of my story.
So it was really eeiry and horrifying to read about the attempted bomb plots against two Riverdale synagogues. Fortunately, good intelligence and police work (note: not water boarding, but good intelligence and police work) foiled the plot and saved innocent lives.
Yeah, agree some nice animation and designs. I particularly like the giant cat :)
Maybe a wee bit too random in the plot department for my liking but still good.
MellisTuck said, on 9/26/2009 9:50:00 AM
I really liked this as well. I especially enjoyed the sound effect choices, there were a lot of recognizable video game sound clips used which definitely helped set a fun mood.
Phew. I’ve made it through the first week as blog editor, and I have to tell you: I’ve enjoyed every minute! Thanks so much for all your comments, retweets, likes, etc. New York has been sweltering, but editing OUPBlog has made me feel soooo cool. (Bad wordplay? Yes it was.) Remember to keep up with emeritus blog editor Rebecca Ford on Twitter @FordBecca! Below are some items that caught my attention this week.
Live in NYC? Not doing anything at 10:17 tonight? Ride the W train for the last time.
This fish is pretty ugly, but also pretty awesome.
NOAA has released a near-real-time map of the Gulf oil spill relief efforts.
When I think of going on vacation, I imagine relaxing and enjoying myself. What’s most important, I don’t want to be rushed. However, every time I visit Argentina, I feel more like I’m going on a very short business trip.I have to be able to meet with all my friends and family. If I don’t see them all by the end of my trip, I feel terribly guilty. Mission accomplished! My trip was a success. I saw my friends and family, and I had a great time. Below, I have included the most important highlights and pictures of my favorite places to see in Córdoba.
Plaza San Martin, the main square located in downtown Córdoba.
After a 13-hour trip, I arrived in Córdoba, Argentina. I stayed at my sister’s apartment in Nueva Córdoba near the downtown area. In the 1900s, this part of the city was home to the wealthiest and most traditional families in Córdoba. Today, due to its proximity to Ciudad Universitaria (University Campus) and the increasing number of buildings constructed in this district, the majority of people living here are students.
View of Hipolito Irigoyen Avenue in Nueva Córdoba district, featuring modern buildings combined with Eighteenth Century architecture.
When I was about nine or ten years old, I used to spend the weekends with my grandmother.Every Saturday afternoon, we would watch a TV show called Grandes valores del tango (roughly translated as "Best Tango Talents”).The show featured well-known tango singers, performing with a live orchestra, and was presented by a very annoying host.Watching this program was torture.On the other hand, my grandmother Carmen had such a great time.She knew and sang all the lyrics.At the time, I thought how it is possible that she likes these tango songs so much when they are so boring and sad.I would sit in front of the TV and try to find something enjoyable about this show, but it was useless.I just wasn’t ready to tango.
Later, in high school, one day in my history class, my teacher brought in so
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April 11, 1961 marked the beginning of the trial against Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. In the course of the trial, the world came face to face with the reality of the Holocaust or what the Nazis called the “final solution of the Jewish problem” – the killing of 6 million people. Newspapers around the world published thousands of articles about Eichmann and his role in the Holocaust. But what none of the international journalists touched upon was probably the most intriguing aspect of Eichmann’s story: the way in which he, the bureaucrat of the Holocaust, managed to escape justice soon after the war and flee to Argentina.
The prominent philosopher Hannah Arendt, who closely followed the trial in Israel, was one of those who wondered why Eichmann’s escape never attracted more international attention. In her famous book Eichmann in Jerusalem she wrote “the trial authorities, for various reasons, had decided not to admit any testimony covering the time after the close of the war.” It seems that there was a conscious effort to restrict the dissemination of information on how Eichmann managed to escape to Argentina. This part of his story was to remain largely a secret, which took historians more than fifty years to uncover.
We now know what the Israeli authorities kept hidden during the Eichmann trial: the involvement of Vatican circles, Western intelligence services, various governments and the International Committee of the Red Cross in the escape of Eichmann and thousands of other Nazis, war criminals, and Holocaust perpetrators. A picture has emerged that raises many uncomfortable questions. It is clear that the agencies involved knew exactly what they were doing, but were able to justify the decisions they made and the actions they took with the Cold War. After all, as the Third Reich lay in ruins, the only enemy left for the Western Powers was the communist Soviet Union. In the eyes of the Catholic Church, communism was a ‘godless, deadly enemy’, even worse than Nazism.
After laying low in Germany for several years, in 1950 Adolf Eichmann decided to immigrate to Argentina. He used a tried route through Italy, where he acquired a new identity as Riccardo Klement, a South Tyrolean from Bolzano, and a travel document from the Red Cross. In Italy he was helped by the Vatican Aid Commission for Refugees, in cooperation with a small group of catholic priests, former SS comrades and some Argentinean officials. The ease with which he reached Argentina was also the result of Western intelligence services, such as the CIA and the German BND, turning a blind eye to where Eichmann was hiding. Research suggests that they knew of his new identity as Riccardo Klement, but ignored the information. But why would the Israeli government be so careful not to reveal any of this during Eichmann’s trial? The true reasons are unclear, but it is possible that Israelis simply did not want to embarrass governments and institutions who were now their allies.
Riccardo Klement’s life on the run came to an abrupt end in May 1960, when he was kidnapped by Israeli government agents just outside of his home in Buenos Aires and taken to Jerusalem: “I, the undersigned, Adolf Eichmann, hereby declare out of my own free will that since now my true identity has been revealed, I see clearly that it is useless to try and escape judgment any longer.” Eichmann had to stand trial and in the process the world came to know the horrible details about the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany, from their forced emigration to centrally- planned industrialized genocide. But the world had to wait 50 years longer to finally learn the truth about how some of the worst Holocaust perpetrators fled justice and who were the institutions helping them do it.
The Book of Murder is now my new favorite.