The Fisherman and His Wife

Tamas Waliczky & Anna Szepesi
Source: Tamas Waliczky & Anna Szepesi

Tamas Waliczky

The Fisherman and His Wife ,
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Animation: Tamás Waliczky and Tsuyoshi Fuyama, Narrator: Manfred "Derek" Hauffen, Harpsichord music performed by: Angelika Csizmadia, Musical director: János Mácsai, Sound enginers: Károly Horváth and Gusztáv Bárány, Edited by: Tamás Waliczky and Anna Szepesi, Directed by: Tamás Waliczky, Concept: Tamás Waliczky and Anna Szepesi, Special thanks to: Itsuo Sakane, György Pálos, András Kárpáti, Jeffrey Shaw, Christina Zartmann, Astrid Sommer, László Márton, Masahiro Miwa, Shiro Yamamoto, Péter Kárpáti, Gulliver Tábor, Heike Staff, Tomomi Inagaki, Silke Sutter, Produced by IAMAS, International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, Ogaki, Japan, in collaboration with Wallada Bioscop Ltd., Budapest, Hungary and ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, Copyright © 2000 Tamás Waliczky & Anna Szepesi
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  • The Fisherman and His Wife at "Imaginative Shadows - a wizard in the star-spangled night", Visual Museum (Sai-No-Kuni Visual Plaza, Skipcity), Saitama-prefecture, Japan, 2009
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  • The Fisherman and His Wife at "Imaging Media. produced@zkm", ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, 2009
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Description
A 30 minutes long computer animation, based on a German folk-tale. The visual world of the animation is based on those of shadow-theater. Every virtual puppet, tree, flower or house are hand-drawn, scanned in and used as texture-maps on 2D polygonal forms positioned in the 3D space. At first the scenes are lightened just with one light source, but as the story goes on, more and more puppets have their own light sources, and cast shadows of the other puppets or objects in the scene. The work uses the light and the shadows to visualize relations between humans, reality to wishes, reality to dreams.
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • animated
    • installation-based
    • narrative
    • real-time
  • genres
    • digital animation
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