Sydney Padua

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Sydney Padua (2011)

Melina Sydney Padua (* 1971 ) is a Canadian animator , VFX artist and comic book writer . She lives in London , England .

Life

Born in 1971 to a Canadian mother and an Argentine father, Padua grew up in Mexico and Canada . She studied "the noble art of theater" at the University of Alberta . As an animator and character animator , she has worked on numerous films, including a. The giant from space (1999), Jagdfieber (2006), L'Illusionniste (2010), Clash of the Titans (2010) and John Carter - Between Two Worlds (2012). She also directed the short film Agricultural Report (2004), which she wrote and animated .

In 2009 Padua drew the webcomic 2D Goggles or The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage . In 2009-2010 these drawings were shown in an exhibition on the subject of steampunk at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford . An adaptation of her webcomic was performed by the Theater Paradok at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2013 under the title A Note of Discord . In 2015, Padua published an expanded version of their webcomic as a book . In The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer , she designs a parallel world in which Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace were already operating a mechanical computer in the 19th century - not least to investigate crime (here : Street music and poetry ). Padua processed original quotes into speech bubble text and sprinkled intertextual references (including George Booles An Investigation of The Laws of Thought , Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan ) into the comic. Footnotes and an addendum provide extensive background information on the historical role models of the characters and on Babbag's analytical engine . The book was awarded the 2015 Neumann Prize by the British Society for the History of Mathematics (for popular literature on the history of mathematics).

Works (selection)

  • 2015 The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer , Pantheon Books, ISBN 978-0-307-90827-8 .

Prices

  • 2005 Audience Award for Agricultural Report at the Alpinale
  • 2006 Short film award for Vincent (2004) at the International Film Weekend in Würzburg
  • 2015 Neumann Prize of the British Society for the History of Mathematics for The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry: Sydney Padua on companydirectorcheck.com , accessed on May 27, 2016.
  2. ↑ Author website accessed on June 28, 2015.
  3. ^ Website of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford , accessed June 28, 2015.
  4. ↑ Theodora Hawlin, reviews on: edfringereview.com, accessed on May 27, 2016th
  5. ↑ BSHM, Neumann Prize at: bshm.ac.uk, accessed on May 27, 2016.
  6. ↑ Awards and nominations on imdb.com accessed on June 28, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Padua, Sydney
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Padua, Melina Sydney (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian animator, VFX artist and comic book writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1971