Your Face
- 1987
- 3m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
1.5K
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A man's head transforms and contorts bizarrely as he sings "Your Face," an original song.A man's head transforms and contorts bizarrely as he sings "Your Face," an original song.A man's head transforms and contorts bizarrely as he sings "Your Face," an original song.
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This cartoonist is absolutely brilliant. His work is more fun than nitrous oxide and more beautifully disturbing than the root canal that comes with it. This piece is a must-see for anybody pursuing a career in the animation/cartoon field, and probably also for anybody who ever liked looking at stuff.
I love the song more so than the animation
They work well together though
This is really simple to describe. We have a central figure whose face changes over a hundred times. The faces are creative as well as photographic. The have been done with drawings and then integrated. Quite remarkable. Apparently the song we here has some significance.
The beauty of "Your Face" is in the way Plympton got a very simple idea--How many ways can you morph a face?--and then elegantly and effectively hand-illustrated the frames to bring that creative idea to rampaging life on the screen.
It took the short animation scene (via the old Tournee) by storm; an immediate fave of one and all!
One of the wonders of it, as the piece proceeds, is seeing Plympton's knack for imagining and capturing the "dynamics"--a surprisingly close approximation of the behaviors of the physical system he's "modeling".
And it all couldn't have happened to a nicer guy: Met Plympton in Angouleme in 2000, and he was a pleasure to chat with about his latest (at the time) project.
It took the short animation scene (via the old Tournee) by storm; an immediate fave of one and all!
One of the wonders of it, as the piece proceeds, is seeing Plympton's knack for imagining and capturing the "dynamics"--a surprisingly close approximation of the behaviors of the physical system he's "modeling".
And it all couldn't have happened to a nicer guy: Met Plympton in Angouleme in 2000, and he was a pleasure to chat with about his latest (at the time) project.
This is as much an animation to listen to as watch as this gent finds his face stretched, spun, shrunk, shredded and generally manipulated. He serenades us with a song about his visage - one that looks like it might be suffering from a bit of gout, and about that of his beloved with some fun rhymes to accompany these colourful contortions. From what I could tell, there's not really any story as such here, it's more a collection of enjoyably zany and abstract cartoons from an imaginative Bill Plympton loosely connected by a neck and an only occasionally connected torso. Visually, it's a bit like one of those kaleidoscope toys you had as a kid where shapes change randomly but still with some symmetry and order to them. It's an enjoyable few minutes of skilful drawing.
Did you know
- TriviaThe odd-sounding voice the man is singing in is actually that of Maureen McElheron. After the song was recorded, the recording was slowed by one-third, giving the desired (and unusual) effect.
- ConnectionsEdited into Mondo Plympton (1997)
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- $2,000 (estimated)
- Runtime
- 3m
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- 1.37 : 1
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