Bill Plympton

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Bill Plympton (2015)

Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946 in Portland , Oregon ) is an American animator and director.

Life

Enthusiastic about the animated films that he saw on American television from an early age, Plympton began drawing caricatures at an early age. At the age of 16 he sent some of his designs to Disney , but they rejected his application for a job, regardless of his age.

After many years of work as a cartoonist for American daily newspapers, such as the New York Times , he completed his first animated short film in 1977, Lucas the Ear of Corn . More followed and were shown on MTV with increasing frequency . In 1988 the short film Your Face was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Animated Short Film.

In 1992 Plympton's first animated feature film The Tune followed , followed by others, such as the highly acclaimed film Mutant Aliens in 2001 . His animated film Sex & Violence , produced in 1997, was awarded the prize for the funniest film the following year at the Stuttgart Animated Film Festival . In 2011, the musical composition by Corey A. Jackson and Nicole Renaud in Bill Plympton's animated film The Cow Who Wanted to be a Hamburger (2010) received the Music for Animation special award at the same. Many of his animation productions have already been shown at the Stuttgart Animated Film Festival, where he has been a guest several times and in 2013, alongside Anand Gurnani and Reinhard Klooss, was a jury member in the AniMovie category.

Plymptons films, as he himself says, are aimed at a more adult audience, as they contain a relatively high level of sex and violence for cartoons and come up with a rather dark sense of humor.

Filmography

Animated films (selection)

  • 1977: Lucas, the Ear of Corn
  • 1985: Drawing Lesson # 2
  • 1985: Boomtown
  • 1987: Love in the Fast Lane
  • 1987: Your Face
  • 1988: Self Portrait
  • 1988: How to Kiss
  • 1988: One of Those Days
  • 1989: 245 Days
  • 1989: Animated Self-Portraits
  • 1989: 25 Ways to Quit Smoking
  • 1990: Tango Schmango
  • 1990: Dig My Do
  • 1990: The Wiseman
  • 1990: Plymptoons
  • 1991: Push Comes to Shove
  • 1992: Toon-O-Rama (TV)
  • 1992: The Tune
  • 1993: Draw
  • 1994: Faded Roads
  • 1994: Nose Hair
  • 1994: J. Lyle
  • 1995: Guns on the Clackamas: A Documentary
  • 1996: Smell the Flowers
  • 1996: How to Make Love to a Woman
  • 1997: Sex and Violence
  • 1997: I Married a Strange Person!
  • 1997: Boney D
  • 1997: Walt Curtis: The Peckerneck Poet (documentary)
  • 1998: General Chaos: Uncensored Animation
  • 1999: Mondo Plympton
  • 1999: More Sex and Violence
  • 2000: Can't Drag Race with Jesus
  • 2000: Exciting Life of a Tree
  • 2000: Surprise Cinema
  • 2001: Mutant Aliens
  • 2001: Eat
  • 2001: 12 Tiny Christmas Tales
  • 2003: Parking
  • 2004: Hair High
  • 2004: Guard Dog
  • 2005: The Fan and the Flower
  • 2005: Spiral
  • 2006: Guide Dog
  • 2007: Shuteye Hotel
  • 2008: hot dog
  • 2008: Idiots and Angels
  • 2008: Tokyo Onlypic 2008
  • 2008: Santa: The Fascist Years
  • 2009: Horn Dog
  • 2010: The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger
  • 2011: Guard Dog Global Jam
  • 2012: Summer Bummer
  • 2012: Waiting for her Sailor
  • 2012: Tiffany: Death on the Runway
  • 2013: Drunker Than a Skunk
  • 2013: Cheatin '
  • 2014: Footprints

Music videos

Commercials

Illustrations

Web links

Commons : Bill Plympton  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Music for Animation Award 2011
  2. ^ Jury AniMovie at the Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart 2013 ( Memento from July 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ TIEMO HAUER with a new video for "Herz / Kopf" ( Memento from August 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Plympton, Bill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American animator
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland , Oregon