Major Post 14: Frederic Back

In class, Professor Jake showed us the film Crac! by Frederic Back and I thought it was super cool! I love how unique his drawing style was and it reminds me of children’s books. It also reminds me of one of my art styles also.His style is slightly different in each film he has.

He used the techniqe of animating layers on frosted cels. Frosted cels area material usually used by artchitects and they are transparent. It’s like and easy DIY for onion skin.

His film Abracadabra definetly looks like it could have been on the TV channel for PBS kids or Qubo. Super cute.

Not all of Back’s films were childlike but some looked depressing and had no colors added. He also used a realistic style while animating instead of childish characters.

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