Tamás Waliczky: The Fisherman and His Wife

Tamás Waliczky: The Fisherman and His Wife, 2000, excerpt

THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE

A 30-minute computer animation based on a German folk tale. The visual world of the animation is based on the world of shadow theatre. All virtual puppets, trees, flowers and houses are originally hand-drawn ink drawings. These scanned drawings are the basis for the 2D shapes placed in 3D space in the computer animation. The body parts of the characters in the film are separate parts connected by a virtual skeleton.

Scenes are initially lit by a single light source, but as the story progresses, more and more puppets have their own light sources, casting shadows on other puppets or objects in the scene. The initial black and white world is replaced by more and more shades of grey due to the many shadows cast on each other.

The work uses light and shadows to represent the relationships between the characters and the environment, between reality and virtuality, reality and desires, reality and dreams.

Tamás Waliczky, 2000

"THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE" 2000

Computer animation, 30 minutes long.

Master: Digital Betacam

Animation: Tamás Waliczky and Tsuyoshi Fuyama

Narrator: Manfred "Derek" Hauffen

Harpsichord music performed by: Angelika Csizmadia

Musical director: János Mácsai

Sound enginers: Károly Horváth and Gusztáv Bárány

Edited by: Tamás Waliczky and Anna Szepesi

Directed by: Tamás Waliczky

Concept: Tamás Waliczky and Anna Szepesi

Special thanks to: Itsuo Sakane, György Pálos, András Kárpáti, Jeffrey Shaw, Christina Zartmann, Astrid Sommer, László Márton, Masahiro Miwa, Shiro Yamamoto, Péter Kárpáti, Gulliver Tábor, Heike Staff, Tomomi Inagaki, Silke Sutter

Produced by IAMAS, International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, Ogaki, Japan

in collaboration with Wallada Bioscop Ltd., Budapest, Hungary and ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

Copyright © 2000 Tamás Waliczky & Anna Szepesi

Distributors: Tamás Waliczky & Anna Szepesi