Andrew Tu is a 16-year-old junior at St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin, TX. Andrew has lived all over the world (including two continents and five states). Andrew has been interested in art his entire life, progressing from drawing stick figures at an early age to drawing full-length cartoons. He took up computer animation a few years ago and began working with Animation Austin School of Film's Samantha Inoue Harte, where his sense of humor and artist skill was quickly noticed. Andrew has taken animation classes at the Austin Film School and the Austin Museum of Art, and has worked at the Austin Museum Art in their computer animation classes." His short animations have been screened at several film festivals including 2008 and 2009 SXSW Media Arts Screenings.
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Students in animation and graphic arts, show us what you have. EMAIL US YOUR WORK
We recently featured the animation demo for THIS DAY by Reggieknow and Nowenen. They posted on their blog about the influence that Ralph's film Coonskin had on their film.
Thanks guys! Can't wait to see the film take off like we know it will.
Scene that shouts out Coonskin from THIS DAY demo:
Current Residence: Daruvar aka Hollywood, Yugoslavia
Interests: writhing, drawing, be on DA and a lot of more stuff
Favourite movie: Pulp fiction, Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il, Rio Bravo
Favourite band or musician: The Beatles, Roling Stones
Favourite genre of music: rock
Favourite poet or writer: E.A.Poe, Douglas Adams
Operating System: Windows Xp
Personal Quote: \'\'They call it a Royale with cheese.\'\'
Email: colinsbob@net.hr
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I was born in 1985 in Farmington, NM. My family moved to Detroit, MI when I was three. Growing up on the infamous 8 mile road had a profound impact on my interests and outlook. In high school the only thing that excited me were my drawings so upon graduation I decided to enroll at Ringling College of Art + Design in Sarasota, Florida which is a far journey from Michigan. I originally enrolled as a computer animation major. That lasted 3 years. I switched to illustration and got back to my drawing. I graduate May 2009, and will continue my journey to make a difference with my art.
Bakshi heavily influenced by William Klein's 'New York'
William Klein's 'New York'
Take a look at this book and feel the world Ralph lived. This is what inspired him. The faces, the movement, the angles, the lighting, the joy, the pain and the endless battle to keep moving on. All art- photographs,drawings, cartoons, animation - has the potential to grasp an essence that for a moment you can be there with it's creator - that , I think, is what Bakshi films can do.
Austin, Texas
"In conjunction with a visit to The Austin School of Film, animation legend Ralph Bakshi visited Austin this weekend and appear live prior to screenings of his films at The Alamo Drafthouse Downtown."
Bakshi will introduce each of his groundbreaking films
