film adaptation last year, and just absolutely loved it! I have seen parts from the movie before watching the whole thing, till I became very interested it. My first introduction to the story of Black Beauty was from watching the DVD copy of the 1994 Warner Bros.
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York and Reuben Smith Jerry Barker, a kind cabby driver who takes him as a cab horse in London and finally, Farmer Thoroughgood and his grandson Willie, with Joe Green, who works as a groomer, as he reunites with Black Beauty at the end of the story, after not having to see him again since he was a boy, and Black Beauty finds a new home, where he’ll spend for the rest of his life in peace. Throughout the story, Black Beauty meets the people in his life, such as Farmer Grey, Squire Gordon and his groomer, John Manly, the Earl and Lady and their son of Earlshall, with Mr. As he grows up, Black Beauty is taken to live at Birtwick Park, the home of Squire Gordon and his family, where he meets his new friends: Ginger, a feisty female chestnut horse and Merrylegs, a happy-go-lucky and cheerful little pony, who likes to take two of Squire Gordon’s daughters out for a ride. So, I am very excited to talk about my experiences on the story and sharing my drawings to all of you on this topic.īlack Beauty is a classic novel written by Anna Sewell in 1877, the story is basically titled as the ‘Autobiography of a Horse’, where we follow the life of Black Beauty, a black horse with one white leg and a little white star on his forehead, living in the Victorian England, following his beginnings of his childhood, with his mother, Duchess. We will be diving down to explore my very first drawings and sketches of the leading horse name Black Beauty from the classic story with the same name. It was really just a matter of time that it happened,” says Rich Duhaney, the co-founder of TAAFI.Author’s Notes: In this topic, there are bits that contains SPOIL ALERTS that follows the story of Black Beauty, so if you don’t want to be spoiled, which I highly recommended, please read the book or watch any film adaptation before you can come back to read this topic.Īnother day for a new topic that’s coming right up on the first week of May! “With the host of festivals that we have, it’s a glaring gap that such a vibrant cultural city doesn’t have an animation festival yet, especially since the industry is really concentrated here for animation. Toronto will join Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Waterloo on the list of Canadian cities with international animation festivals. We need these little events to meet and greet and communicate and share ideas with each other.” Courtesy Toronto Animation Arts Festival International “I think we need to be inspired and I think we need to inspire each other. “It’s important for the artists, I think,” Chou says. The opportunity to get different animators to connect and work together was one of the driving forces behind the decision to start Toronto’s own animation festival. “I tried to give them as little direction as possible, and for the most part, the artists went and ran with it.” “It was absolutely up to the artist,” he says. While some went completely digital, others went old school and worked with pen and pencil.
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Article contentĬhou gave his team free rein over which methods and mediums they wanted to use. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. So many genres of art and 10 artists doing their own thing - all mashed up into one.” It became like a juxtaposition and that’s kind of what I wanted. “We started with a storyboard and it was really incredible how each artist approached it differently with different colours and tones, different character design. “I gave each artist choice picks of whatever shot spoke to them,” Chou says. “That definitely had to make it.”Įventually the bumper itself became a mash-up as 10 uniquely different animation styles were blended together. “There’s always something going on there, someone drumming or silver Elvis,” he says. Courtesy Toronto Animation Arts Festival International Thus in addition to such local-favourite spots as Trinity Bellwoods Park and Chinatown’s back alleys, Chou knew he needed to include touristy spots such as Yonge-Dundas Square, in all its noisy glory. I wanted to capture the sights, the sounds, the people and the food.” I came up with a piece that focused on individuality and captured Toronto’s frenetic pace. You have every sort of culture, you have over 140 different languages spoken here. “It has little bits of everything and that’s the beauty of our city. When handed the project, Chou was simply given a not-so-simple log line: find a way to “bring Toronto animation to the world.” He decided to work off his own memory of the city, basing his concept on the parts of Toronto that stuck out in his head.
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