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S06E01: Sam Fell: From Junk to Clay
Sam Fell was always drawn to creation and in the 1980s, he
found himself in London, studying fine art and making
interdisciplinary works of art, junk sculptures with speakers
and cassette tapes inside, and eventually adding mechanics to
move his works. It was around this time that he rediscovered
stop-motion animation and the works of The Quay Brothers and Jan
Švankmajer.
Sam taught himself stop motion and eventually, found himself
making the trek from London to Bristol, the home of Aardman
Animations. He felt at home in the artist-driven studio where he
continued to hone his craft and storytelling from Peter Lord,
before embarking on his career as a director.
In our conversation, Sam shares his road to the director’s
chair, from his early days as a directionless teen in London to
working with Peter Lord in the early years of Aardman to his
move into CG and the blending of tech and tradition that has led
to his latest feature film Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.
Episode Links
Host: Marina Antunes
Opening & Closing Credits by: Michael Edlund
Produced & Edited by: Joshua Peterman
©2024 Spark CG Society · All Rights Reserved.
Thank you to our sponsors!
TERABYTE: Creative BC.
MEGABYTE: Animal Logic · Capilano University · Netflix.
KILOBYTE: Atomic Cartoons · Bardel Entertainment · Doberman Pictures · DNEG · Image Engine · Industrial Light & Magic · The Little Dev Shop · Mainframe Studios · Sony Pictures Imageworks · WildBrain Studios.
BYTE: Animasia BC · CMPA BC · Digi BC · NOX VFX · Rotomaker · Scanline VFX · Vancouver Film School · Versatile Media · Walt Disney Animation Studios · Wētā FX.
PARTNERS: ACM SIGGRAPH · SIGGRAPH Asia.
ORGANIZERS: Spark CG Society · Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH.
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By The Spark podcast is a production of the Spark Computer Graphics Society.Sam Fell was always drawn to creation and in the 1980s, he
found himself in London, studying fine art and making
interdisciplinary works of art, junk sculptures with speakers
and cassette tapes inside, and eventually adding mechanics to
move his works. It was around this time that he rediscovered
stop-motion animation and the works of The Quay Brothers and Jan
Švankmajer.
Sam taught himself stop motion and eventually, found himself
making the trek from London to Bristol, the home of Aardman
Animations. He felt at home in the artist-driven studio where he
continued to hone his craft and storytelling from Peter Lord,
before embarking on his career as a director.
In our conversation, Sam shares his road to the director’s
chair, from his early days as a directionless teen in London to
working with Peter Lord in the early years of Aardman to his
move into CG and the blending of tech and tradition that has led
to his latest feature film Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.
Episode Links
Host: Marina Antunes
Opening & Closing Credits by: Michael Edlund
Produced & Edited by: Joshua Peterman
©2024 Spark CG Society · All Rights Reserved.
Thank you to our sponsors!
TERABYTE: Creative BC.
MEGABYTE: Animal Logic · Capilano University · Netflix.
KILOBYTE: Atomic Cartoons · Bardel Entertainment · Doberman Pictures · DNEG · Image Engine · Industrial Light & Magic · The Little Dev Shop · Mainframe Studios · Sony Pictures Imageworks · WildBrain Studios.
BYTE: Animasia BC · CMPA BC · Digi BC · NOX VFX · Rotomaker · Scanline VFX · Vancouver Film School · Versatile Media · Walt Disney Animation Studios · Wētā FX.
PARTNERS: ACM SIGGRAPH · SIGGRAPH Asia.
ORGANIZERS: Spark CG Society · Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH.
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