Cordell Barker
Cordell Barker ( born September 10, 1956 in Winnipeg, Manitoba ) is a Canadian animator and commercial artist.
Life
Barker grew up in Winnipeg and took an early interest in animation. During the school year he began in 1974 as an animator at a local animation studio characteristic Perkins to work in Winnipeg. His early work included Cel Paintings including for Sesame Street as well as work in the field of advertising the film. Barker left characteristic Perkins animation three years later and worked as a graphic designer.
1982, he joined the National Film Board of Canada, which had in 1976 opened a studio in Winnipeg. His first film at the NFB in 1988, The Cat Came Back, for which he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film was awarded in 1989. According to various projects in the advertising film industry, including commercials for Nike ( he represented Canada at Nike's series 180) and Coca -Cola, followed in 2001 with Strange Invaders another short animated film Barker, who received an Oscar nomination again. The work on Strange Invaders had begun in the early 1990s, when he father was first Barker.
First published in 2009 by Barker Runaway his third short animated film, which was as the previous two also hand- animated. " The only criticism that one can make Cordell Barker, one of the most celebrated Canadian animators is that he just does too little, because of the meticulous process of hand drawing means that new projects years of completion need ," said one critic at the performance of Runaway at the Sundance film Festival 2010. in 2010, Barker was hired as a creative consultant of the Prairie and North West Center of the NFB and has been an advisor to the NFB regarding animation projects in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, the Northwest of Canada and Nunavut operate.
Barker's films are known for their cutting humor. "His peculiarity is [ also ] the fact that he believes in animation it would more on the timing, the history and color than on the drawing itself "