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LANDRETH : <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";font-weight:bold'>University
of Technology, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sydney</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face="Helvetica Neue Light"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";font-weight:bold'>Cost
: Free<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Helvetica Neue Light"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black'>Oscar
winning, animation director, Chris Landreth is one of the true legends of the
contemporary creative animation scene, Landreth has been at the absolute
forefront of computer animation development for a decade. His films – <b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>The End, Bingo</span></i></b> and <b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Ryan </span></i></b>–
represented groundbreaking leaps in pushing technology to its limits to show
the breadth of what animation was capable of depicting on the screen. Landreth
was nominated for an Academy Award for <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>The End</span></i></b>, with <b><i><span style='font-weight:
bold;font-style:italic'>Ryan</span></i></b> winning the Oscar for Best Short
Animation in 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Helvetica Neue Light"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:#242424'>This seminar presentation
will go beyond Landreth’s films and provide insight into his successful
marriage of creativity and technology. Landreth will talk about
"Psycho-realism", the use of art and animation to depict the realism
of one's emotional and spiritual state. He explores the "<st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Uncanny</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Valley</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>" (the "creepy"
effect experienced when CGI characters are too realistic, leading to a feeling
of revulsion in the viewer) and how his latest film <b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>The Spine</span></i></b> attempts
to avoid this problem. He also shows how his animators used a Method-acting
approach to nick subtle gestures, ticks, and micro-expressions in their
characters' faces and bodies, and explains how his crew balanced realism and
stylization to create characters who are Uncanny in a positive way.
Landreth’s talk will be followed by a </span></font><font size=2
face="Helvetica Neue Light"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"'> Q&A.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";
color:#242424;font-weight:bold'>Location: <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";
color:#242424;font-weight:bold'>University of Technology, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Sydney</st1:place></st1:City>, <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";
color:#242424;font-weight:bold'>Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building,<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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Avenue</st1:address></st1:Street> and <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
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those with a disability or special need to drive: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Peter</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Johnson</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, Basement Car
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Helvetica Neue Light"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black;
font-weight:bold'>Chris Landreth<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Helvetica Neue Light"><span
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font-weight:bold'>Biography<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Helvetica Neue Light"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black'>Armed
with a degree in Applied Mechanics from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Illinois</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>,</span></font><font
size=2 face="Helvetica Neue Light"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"'> Chris Landreth joined Alias|Wavefront in
1994, where it was his job to define, test and abuse animation software,
in-house, before it was released to the public. In addition to well-mannered
software, this work resulted in the production of animated short films,
including <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>The End</span></i></b>
(1995) and <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Bingo</span></i></b>
(1998). </span></font><font size=2 color=black face="Helvetica Neue Light"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black'>Chris
was a senior animator at Alias|Wavelength when his film “The End”
was nominated for an Academy Award in 1995. “The End” brought a
shimmer and fluidity to computer animation that had not been seen before. It
also introduced us to an animator who clearly was not afraid to push his
imagination. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face="Helvetica Neue Light"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"'>His next film<b><i><span style='font-weight:
bold;font-style:italic'> Bingo</span></i></b>, a five-minute computer animated
adaptation of a live theatre performance called <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Disregard This Play</span></i> by the Chicago-based theatre company
The Neo-Futurists, wrote the bible for the then fledgling animation software
package, Maya. <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>The End</span></i></b>
and <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Bingo</span></i></b>
have received wide international recognition and numerous awards.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"'>Landreth then
turned his attentions to a biography of animator Ryan Larkin, while at the
same time challenging notions of documentary and animation. </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Helvetica Neue Light"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black'>The legend of Canadian
animator Ryan Larkin is now well known. Larkin had made several extraordinary
films for the National Film Board of Canada in the late 1960’s including
“Walking”, which was nominated for an Academy Award. Larkin
disintegrated, becoming a homeless panhandler before becoming the subject of
Landreth’s animated documentary <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>Ryan</span></i></b> in 2004. The film became a phenomena,
screening at countless festivals, provoking terabytes of on-line discussion,
sparking several books and – to some extent – resurrecting
Larkin’s career, or at least his reputation as a gifted, instinctual
animator and artist. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=2 color=black face="Helvetica Neue Light"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black;
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Ryan</span></font></i></b><font size=2
color=black face="Helvetica Neue Light"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black'> the film was totally unique,
its design stripped the characters back to something much less than their full
physical states, exposing, literally and metaphorically, their inner selves.
The film won the Academy Award for Best Short Animation in 2005 and has taken
out countless awards worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Helvetica Neue Light"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black'>Landreth’s
latest film<i><span style='font-style:italic'>, <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>The Spine</span></b></span></i>, is hot off the press, premiering to
critical acclaim at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Festival
just three weeks ago. <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Spine</span></i>
is the latest chapter in the work of one of the most influential and
fascinating practitioners working in the realm of CGI animation.</span></font><font
size=2 face="Helvetica Neue Light"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
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