Ferenc Cakó
Ferenc Cakó [ fɛrɛnʦ ʦɒko ː ] ( born November 18, 1950 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian internationally renowned animation artist, painter, draftsman, printmaker, children's and youth 's book illustrator and professor of 3D animation. The focus of his work lies in the kneading and sand animation surrealist motifs.
Life and work
Ferenc Cakó completed in 1973 to study at the School of Creative Arts and has already won several awards during his student days as an amateur animator. After graduating Cakó worked until 1991 as a knitting designer and director of the Pannonia Film Studios. He dealt first with puppets, plasticine and scissors cutting techniques before he decided to sand as the material of choice.
First international attention gained the animation rounder in 1982 with his two-minute ad astra work at the Festival d' Animation Annecy, where he won the FIPRESCI Prize. From then on he realized only film projects that were created based on their own screenplays, like its 1994 at the Berlinale award-winning sand animation ashes.
Cakó is Professor of 3D Animation at the University of Fine Arts in Budapest, director of several workshops, including at the Film Academy Baden- Württemberg, as well as various organizers live sand animation in the world.