Sunday 22 May 2011

Bill Plympton

Bill Plympton  grew up in a large family; he first started dipping his figures in different stuff when he was at university joining various clubs. At the ages of 14 he send Disney some of his art work, even though they did reply back to him, telling him his drawings showed promise he was too young. In 1983 he was approached by a film asking him animate for him, it was called Boomtown, after this move he started making his own animation film, Drawing Lesson 2.
GUIDE DOG 2006
Guide Dog is a sequel to the Oscar nominated short Guard Dog. This time our hero dog helps blind people with typical disastrous results.

HOT DOG 2008
The 2nd sequel to the Oscar-nominated short Guard Dog. This time, our intrepid hero dog goes to work for the fire department, and chaos, as always, ensues...





In 1998, Bill returned to animation with I married a strange person. It's a heart warming story of a newlywed couple on their wedding night. Bill's next animated feature, Mutant aliens, the story of a stranded astronaut returning to Earth after 20 years in space, was completed in January 2001 and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It won the Grand Prix in Annecy 2001 and was released in theatres in 2002. It has played all over the world to huge audiences.

References
http://www.plymptoons.com/biography/bio.html

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