René Jodoin
René Jodoin ( born December 30, 1920 in Hull, Quebec ) is a Canadian film producer, director and animator. He founded the French-language animation department of the National Film Board of Canada.
Life
Jodoin studied at the École des beaux -arts in Montreal and in 1943 was re- founded by Norman McLaren as one of the first animators for animation department of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB ) is fetched. Jodoin was greatly influenced by his mentor McLaren and saw himself as a society Obligated artists. Accordingly, many of his films have also didactic trains.
Jodoin experimented with new forms of animation and created with He Who Laughs Last the first animated film with cels, which was produced by the NFB. After a fruitful collaboration with McLaren Jodoin left the NFB in 1947 and settled in Toronto as a freelance animator down. In 1954 he returned to the NFB. He was director of its animation program, which turned among other films for the Canadian Department of National Defence.
In 1966, Jodoin founded the French-language animation department of the NFB, which produced numerous important animators, including Ishu Patel, Co Hoedeman, Caroline Leaf and Paul Driessen. Jodoin promoted innovative and experimental approaches, and was himself working as a director of short films with educational mission. Among his works of that period include the geometry - based short animated films Dance Squared (1961 ), Notes on a Triangle (1966) and Spheres (1969 ), the latter a program begun in 1948 cooperation with Norman McLaren.
From 1969 Jodoin experimented with computer animation supporters and produced in 1971 the first computer- animated short Metadata, which was directed by Peter Foldes and with the assistance of the National Research Council of Canada. Two films produced by Foldes have been nominated for Best Animated Short Film for an Oscar in the category: Hunger ( 1974) by Peter Foldes and Monsieur pointu (1975 ) by André Leduc and Bernard Longpré. In 1977, Jodoin resigned from his post as director of the French-language animation department of the NFB in 1985 and went into retirement. Even after 1985, he experimented in the field of computer animation. For his contributions to the Canadian animated film Jodoin was awarded in 2001 the Prix Albert - Tessier.