Polman’s Flash Film Up For Oscar Consideration

posted by aaron, 4.44 PM

The Netherlands announced today that Remco Polman’s film Mortel has been submitted for Oscar consideration in the Best Animated Short Film category for the upcoming 2008 Academy Awards.

Here is an excerpt from an interview with Polman regarding Mortel: “I really had to draw a lot, although we work with Flash. All the frames are hand-drawn on paper, on an animation table and then scanned in. I worked for nine months on the drawings and I even had help from three interns and two inbetweeners. Wilfred Ottenheijm did the fight scenes, because he loves martial arts. I scanned the drawings with 400dpi and then imported them into Flash and traced them. In this way I preserve a thin line with a lot of anchors which gives me a certain flexibility.”

Polman had help animating the Flash animated short from Wilfred Ottenheijm and Jeffrey Zagers.

Thanks to Stefan de Groot for the story tip.

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