Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis are
a Canadian animation duo. They were both originaly from Alberta.
They met at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver
where they studied film, video and animation. They each went on to
create their own works with the National Film Board of Canada
(Strings and The Reluctant Deckhand) before co-directing When the
Day Breaks which received over 30 international awards.
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When the day breaks Was made using a new animation technique
that they designed; They shot real life scenes of people and
objects; They then printed stills from these scenes on a video
printer attached to a VCR as three by four inch images that they
enlarged slightly. They then would take these stills and draw on
them. This technique was designed to save time, however, the film
took about four years to complete
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Wild Life Wild Life, their latest short with the NFB has won
several prizes and in 2012 was nominated for an Academy Award. In
addition to writing and directing the film, Forbis and Tilby drew
and painted every animation frame in guache, and wrote the lyrics
for the film's final song. They were only able to work on Wild Life
part-time, due to commercial obligations, and the film is reported
to have taken them from six to over seven years, from concept to
completion.
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Tilby and Forbis have also collaborated on assorted
commissioned projects and directed numerous TV commercials.
Interview, their acclaimed spot for United Airlines, was nominated
for an Emmy in 2004.
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Tobogganers
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Francis Bacon In 1944 he painted Three Studies for Figures at
the Base of a Crucifixion which was his first painting to attract
public attention. Throughout his life he was interested in the
human condition and his work is mostly about that. In 1971 his
lover, George Dyer, suicided and Bacon started painting more
introspective, preoccupied with the passage of time, art. Francis
Bacon, born in 1909, was an Irish-born Brittish figurative painter
known for his bold, emotionally charged paintings. His work
features human or animal shapes, painted in an aggressive abstract
form.
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Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, 1944
Three Studies for a crucifixion, 1962 Triptych, 1976
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Self-portrait, 1976 Portrait Self-portrait
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Study after velzquez's portrait of pope innocent x, 1953 Figure
with meat, 1954 Three Studies of Lucian Freud, 1969
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Triptych, 1973 Self-portrait triptych, 1986
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Similarities We don't see many similarities between them. The
only thing we can consider similar is the fact that Francis Bacon
is obcessed with death, and that in the two movies made by the duo,
Tibly/Forbis, one of the characters dies.
