Mr. Taylor Jessen has been burning the midnight oil on the interview front to bring you some live creative insight from the talented filmmakers involved in this year’s line-up. We’ve been sprinting from opening to opening so we haven’t had a chance to sit down with all of these podcasts and get them formatted for your listening enjoyment, but soon! In the meantime a handful of artists have been nice enough to communicate via e-mail, fax, carrier pigeon… you name it, to bring us background and details on work past and present. One of this year’s current program highlights is animator Grant Orchard “Love Sport – Paintballing”. One of ten short films that was commissioned for MTV Itialia’s web portal QOOB. Take a peak.
THE ANIMATION SHOW YEAR 4 Theatrical Grant Orchard Animator, “Love Sport - Paintballing” (2007) Interviewer: Taylor Jessen Date: 6/11/2008 Via e-mail from London Animation Show: Did your first big design epiphany come while you were playing Castle Wolfenstein on the Apple II+? Or were you inspired growing up by videogame graphics in general? Grant Orchard: No, not really. I did love Daley Thompson’s Decathlon on the Commodore64 when I was younger though. You had to hit the keys alternately to run, and if you wanted to throw or jump you pressed spacebar. The last event was the 1500 meters and you had to keep pumping those keys for what seemed like hours. It was business class. As for design epiphany I’d like to say it was seeing a Hockney painting for the first time or being truly moved by the typography on a New Order album cover, but I think it was probably seeing Dogmatix in the Asterix books.
Entire Interview here