Tamás Waliczky: The Fisherman and His Wife, 2000, excerpt
THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
A 30 minutes long computer animation, based on a German folk-tale. The visual world of the animation is based on those of shadow-theatre. 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 visualise relations between humans, reality to virtuality, reality to wishes, reality to dreams.
Tamás Waliczky, 2000
"THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE" 2000
Computer animation, 30 minutes long.
Master: Digital Betacam
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
Distributors: Tamás Waliczky & Anna Szepesi
Images copyright © 2000 Tamás Waliczky