Aleksandr Konstantinovich Petrov (also Alexander or Alexandre)
(Russian: Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€ ÐšÐ¾Ð½Ñ Ñ‚Ð°Ð½Ñ‚Ð¸Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡
Петров) (born 17 July 1957 in Prechistoye, Yaroslavl Oblast) is
a Russian animator and animation director.Petrov was born in the
village of Prechistoye (Yaroslavl Oblast) and lives in Yaroslavl.He
studied art at VGIK (state institute of cinema and TV). He was a
disciple of Yuriy Norshteyn at the Advanced School for screenwriters
and directors (Moscow).After making his first films in Russia, in
Canada he adapted the novel The Old Man and the Sea, resulting in a
20-minute animated short â€" the first large-format animated film ever
made. Technically impressive, the film is made entirely in pastel oil
paintings on glass, a technique mastered by only a handful of
animators in the world. By using his fingertips instead of a
paintbrush on different glass sheets positioned on multiple levels,
each covered with slow-drying oil paints, he was able to add depth to
his paintings. After photographing each frame painted on the glass
sheets, which was four times larger than the usual A4-sized canvas, he
had to slightly modify the painting for the next frame and so on. It
took Aleksandr Petrov over two years, from March 1997 through April
1999, to paint each of the 29,000+ frames. For the shooting of the
frames a special adapted motion-control camera system was built,
probably the most precise computerized animation stand ever made. On
this an IMAX camera was mounted, and a video-assist camera was then
attached to the IMAX camera. The film was highly acclaimed, receiving
the Academy Award for Animated Short Film and Grand Prix at the Annecy
International Animated Film Festival.
(Russian: Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€ ÐšÐ¾Ð½Ñ Ñ‚Ð°Ð½Ñ‚Ð¸Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡
Петров) (born 17 July 1957 in Prechistoye, Yaroslavl Oblast) is
a Russian animator and animation director.Petrov was born in the
village of Prechistoye (Yaroslavl Oblast) and lives in Yaroslavl.He
studied art at VGIK (state institute of cinema and TV). He was a
disciple of Yuriy Norshteyn at the Advanced School for screenwriters
and directors (Moscow).After making his first films in Russia, in
Canada he adapted the novel The Old Man and the Sea, resulting in a
20-minute animated short â€" the first large-format animated film ever
made. Technically impressive, the film is made entirely in pastel oil
paintings on glass, a technique mastered by only a handful of
animators in the world. By using his fingertips instead of a
paintbrush on different glass sheets positioned on multiple levels,
each covered with slow-drying oil paints, he was able to add depth to
his paintings. After photographing each frame painted on the glass
sheets, which was four times larger than the usual A4-sized canvas, he
had to slightly modify the painting for the next frame and so on. It
took Aleksandr Petrov over two years, from March 1997 through April
1999, to paint each of the 29,000+ frames. For the shooting of the
frames a special adapted motion-control camera system was built,
probably the most precise computerized animation stand ever made. On
this an IMAX camera was mounted, and a video-assist camera was then
attached to the IMAX camera. The film was highly acclaimed, receiving
the Academy Award for Animated Short Film and Grand Prix at the Annecy
International Animated Film Festival.
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