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EuanFrizzell

  • Animator
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Veteran animator Euan Frizzell brought his artist's hands to almost every form of the genre, from traditional cartoons to stop motion to computer generated animation. Along the way, he animated stories by local legends Margaret Mahy and Lynley Dodd, and directed and animated for Bugs Bunny, Road Runner and Fred Flintstone. Frizzell died on 23 September 2012.

Screenography

Margaret Mahy's Rambustifications
2012 - 2013 Animator Television
Asylum Pieces
2010 Animator Film
Under the Mountain
2009 Animator Film
Joketoons
2009 Animator Series
A Tall Long Faced Tale
2008 Animator, Visual Effects Supervisor Television

Biography

Euan Frizzell animated and directed everything from commercials (around 200 of them) to award-winning children's films and documentaries. But his special interest was in characters and character animation. "When animated characters live for more than a few shots they inevitably develop lives of their own," Frizzell said.

Awards

2008 Qantas Film and Television Awards (New Zealand)
Nominated for Best Design - Television (for his Animation): for A Tall Long Faced Tale

2005 New Zealand Screen Awards
Best Design: for Len Lye To Gollum

“Computers have opened up new areas that animation can be used in. Aside from traditional 2-D animation, which is still hand-drawn, everything else has changed and is still changing quite rapidly.”

— Euan Frizzell

Related images

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Animator Euan Frizzell meets Margaret Mahy in a scene from A Tall, Long Faced Tale.
Photographer: Denise Baldwin. Animations: Euan Frizzell.