Josh Raskin

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Josh Raskin (* 1980 in Toronto ) is a Canadian film director and animator . As a musician, he performs under the name Kids & Explosions .

Life

Raskin studied New Media at Ryerson University in Toronto from 2000 to 2004 . He made a film for the National Film Board of Canada that mixed texts from propaganda films from the 1940s with new footage. The film caught the attention of Jerry Levithan (* 1954), who contacted Raskin. Levithan had conducted an audio interview with John Lennon as a teenager in 1969 ; now he commissioned Raskin to visualize the sound. Raskin, animator James Braithwaite, and computer graphic artist Alex Kurina worked on the film for about a year, with Raskin creating, directing and producing the animation script. The short film I Met the Walrus had its festival premiere on June 14, 2007 at the Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto. Raskin was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Animated Short Film for the film in 2008 .

According to his own statement, the work on I Met the Walrus Raskin did not want to make any more films for the time being. Raskin had already played guitar during his studies with the band Music for Mapmakers. Now he devoted himself again to music, worked as a DJ and released his debut album Shit Computer with collage-like mashups under the name Kids & Explosions in 2010 .

At the same time, Raskin worked in the video and advertising sector and in 2012 published the 1.5-minute long commercial Introducing Google Input Tools , which he had created on behalf of Google . In the spot he combined various animation techniques, including hand animation, computer animation and stop-motion animation.

Awards

  • 2007: Audience Award Nomination, New York City Short Film Festival, for I Met the Walrus
  • 2008: Jury Prize for Best Animated Short Film, RiverRun International Film Festival, for I Met the Walrus
  • 2008: Oscar nomination, Best Animated Short, for I Met the Walrus
  • 2009: Daytime Emmy, Daytime Emmy Awards, for I Met the Walrus

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia Kaganskiy: YouTube Takes Over The Guggenheim . The Creators Project , October 22, 2010.
  2. ^ Senate Meeting . ryerson.ca, January 29, 2008, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Josh Raskin on fitc.ca
  4. ↑ To Interview with Josh Raskin ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . ani-jobs.com, February 22, 2008.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ani-jobs.com
  5. ↑ a b AFF Filmmaker Follow Up with Josh Raskin ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . austinfilmfestival.com, 2009.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / austinfilmfestival.com
  6. ↑ Josh Raskin on cocosolidciti.com
  7. ↑ Ian Gormely: Kids and Explosions . exclaim.ca, November 27, 2010.
  8. ↑ Tyler Fisher: Shit Computer . sputnikmusic.com, December 16, 2010.
  9. ↑ Simon Robson: Josh Raskin for Google . motionographer.com, July 17, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Raskin, Josh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian animator, film director and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto