SENSOLOGY - 6 minutes - Canada/USA 2010 - Produced and Directed by Michel Gagné - Music by Paul Plimley and Barry Guy Back in June 2006, Nancy and I were invited to the Vancouver International Jazz Festival by Coastal Jazz's manager of artistic programming, the amazing Rainbow Robert. That's where I heard piano improvisor, Paul Plimley for the first time. As Paul played,
![]() I've wanted to do an abstract animated film ever since I discovered the work of Oscar Fischinger, Norman Mclaren, Kandinsky, Yves Tanguy and many others. I knew that Paul's music, was the perfect catalyst to get started on such a project.
The creation of this film was a true spiritual and artistic journey. Sometimes, I felt like I was channeling the images. I did no storyboards and virtually no preliminary work. I animated in a stream of consciousness, one frame at a time at a rate of 30 frames per second. The shapes revealed themselves as I listened to the music Sensology was handdrawn (painted) with a Wacon tablet at first, and later, a Cintiq, using Adobe Photoshop. The drawings and frames were then composited and manipulated in a 2D software called Animo. There is no vector animation at any point in the film. ----------------
---------------- --------------- On December 1st, 2010, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issued the following press release:
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company: The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger, Bill Plympton, director (Bill Plympton Studio) Coyote Falls, Matthew O’Callaghan, director and Sam Register, executive producer (Warner Bros. Animation Inc.) Day & Night, Teddy Newton, director (Pixar Animation Studios) The Gruffalo, Jakob Schuh and Max Lang, directors (Magic Light Pictures) Let’s Pollute, Geefwee Boedoe, story-design-animation (Geefwee Boedoe) The Lost Thing, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann, directors (Passion Pictures Australia) Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary),” Bastien Dubois, director (Sacrebleu Productions) Sensology, Michel Gagne, director-producer (GAGNE International LLC) The Silence beneath the Bark, Joanna Lurie, director (Lardux Films) Urs, Moritz Mayerhofer, director (Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg) The Short Films and Feature Animation Branch Reviewing Committee viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting in screenings held in New York and Los Angeles. Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select three to five nominees from among the 10 titles on the shortlist. Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco in January 2011. The 83rd Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2010 will be presented on Sunday, February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.
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