Thursday, January 18, 2007

Aleksandr Petrov

Ghibli museum will be hosting an Aleksandr Petrov exhibition, with his latest film 'My love'. Aleksandr Petrov!! I was really excited to be reminded again of his masterpiece 'The old man and the sea'. The animation consists of finger painted glass frames in oil. Can you imagine drawing tens of hundreds of oil paintings?? and the old animator did it all by himself. The pictures look fleshy and dreamy. He's a real romantic who knows how to capture the dream states.

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2 comments:

Jade said...

REALLY beautiful...wish i get to watch this film someday..

Z said...

i've posted 'old man and sea' tubies, it's a 20min+ animation short splendidly adapted and rendered. Don't think i'll ever get a chance to see 'my love'... ah i bought the bootleg dvd of petrov's short film collection from that store if u remember...