Refined and elegant animation style,
Beautiful and harmonious form of presentation,
He is especially good at incorporating silhouette techniques.
He is a leading figure in the French film industry.
He's Michelle Oslo.
Michel Hausslo, France's foremost master of animation today, was born in 1943 on the Côte d'Azur of France, and after graduating from paris with an art degree, Michel Ostrow devoted her life entirely to animated films and personal creations.
Zhengzhou Education Television Station "Tonight" will come to talk to you about the latest works of Michel Oslo, a leader in the French animation film industry, and his masterpieces, to understand the animation creation perspective that belongs to this master.
Michelle Oslo
Silhouette animation by Lot Reniger
Do you know the German filmmaker Lot Reniger? Considered the pioneer of silhouette animation, he created amazing art with scissors and paper.
The representative of modern silhouette animation is michelle Oslo. His fairy tale short film series, which has lasted for more than 20 years, has always adopted a traditional and refined animation format. His famous works "The Prince and the Princess", "The Story of the Night" and the latest work "Prince Ivan and the Changeable Princess" are the fairy tale collections of silhouette paintings.
In addition to silhouette animations, Michelle Oslow is also known for her exquisite paper-cut animations. A 13-minute film of "Three Inventors" won him a British Academy Film Award in 1980.
(The elaborate paper-cut animation tells a satirical and tragic story in which a family of three inventors brings magical inventions to the world, but instead falls into the hatred and suspicion of mediocres.) ）
Michelle Oslo of childhood
Michelle Oslow's first animated feature film was also the "Twitter and the Witch" that established his fame. Tell the story of a magical little African boy who goes on an adventure to save his village. But in the 1990s, filmmakers faced a huge challenge to make such an alternative animation.
This refreshing African story stems from Oslo's childhood experience of living in Africa.
Films with unpopular subject matter receive criticism. More importantly, everyone can't accept that the character is almost naked.
Michelle Oslow said that during the four years of filming, he was asked to put shorts and underwear on the characters every day, but he withstood the pressure and took the picture he wanted to shoot, which he felt was a factor of Africa that he wanted to convey: African civilization is not ashamed of the body, and they are remembered as calm, friendly and beautiful.
A beautiful life
"Twitter and the Witch", which had been brewing for six years, had no funds for publicity when it was released in 1998, relying on word of mouth from the audience, and still achieved great success. This changed not only Oslo's animation career, but also the face of French animated films. Later, at the strong request of the public, he launched two twitter movies, "Twitter and the Beast" and "Twitter and Man and Woman", which became a household name in Europe.
Michelle Oslow, who has never received an orthodox animation education, draws nourishment from his love of world art, and the artistic styles of a series of countries such as ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, China, and Japan are presented in his works. From 1994 to 2000, he also served as President of the International Animated Film Association, dedicated to advancing niche animated films around the world.
Michelle Oslow said that until the end of his life, he would tell his little story in a simple and beautiful way. He once likened his creation to an apple tree producing an apple, from an innate, completely natural drive. Perhaps it is this simple belief that has allowed the 73-year-old man to engage in animation creation for a lifetime and bear fruitful and beautiful fruits. Today at 22:20, Zhengzhou Education Television Station "Tonight" tells you about the animation life of Michel Oslo, a leading figure in French animation
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