Mark Gustafson, the stop-motion expert that won an Oscar this year for his work with Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, passed away Thursday. He was64
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Del Toro introduced the information Friday on social networks, publishing:“I admired Mark Gustafson, even before I met him. A pillar of stop motion animation — a true artist. A compassionate, sensitive and mordantly witty man. A Legend — and a friend that inspired and gave hope to all around him. … Today we honor and miss him.”
The Oregonian paper additionally reported his fatality.
Gustafson additionally dealt with the stop-motion The golden state Raisins personalities early in his job and worked as computer animation supervisor on Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009 ), one more Oscar- chosen stop-motion movie.
When del Toro handled the job of retelling Carlo Collodi’s 1883 fable concerning a wood creature that wants to be an actual child, he touched Gustafson as his guiding companion. The duo additionally gained BAFTA and Annie honors, to name a few awards, for the Netflix launch.
“We did some design work in 2011 and 2012, and then it went away,” Gustafson claimed in a meeting in March. “It died several times.” Just Netflix would certainly accept the task, he kept in mind:“We went all over the place. Even with Guillermo, when you walk into the room, and he describes it as a film about death, and the rise of Mussolini, you can just see the color drain from faces.”
His lengthy job in freeze frame started in the 1980s at Will Certainly Vinton Studios in his birth place of Rose city, Oregon, on the California Raisins– the stop-motion team of vocal singing and dance raisins that ended up being hugely preferred after they showed up in a The golden state Raisin Board of advisers industrial vocal singing,“I Heard It Through the Grapevine.”
He additionally worked as an animator on Planters’ Mr. Peanut project.
His job consisted of The PJs, a collection co-created by Eddie Murphy and embeded in an urban real estate task. Gustafson won a 1999 Annie for guiding a “Bougie Nights” episode and gained among his 4 Emmy elections for the collection.
He won an Emmy for the 1992 unique Claymation Easter, a funny concerning the kidnapping of the Easter Rabbit that he guided and co-wrote. He additionally created and guided the 1994 computer animated brief Mr. Resistor.
Del Toro claimed Gustafson“leaves behind a titanic legacy of animation that goes back to the very origins of Claymation and that shaped the career and craft of countless animators.”
Approving the Oscar on phase at the Dolby Theater in March, Gustafson claimed,“It’s so good to know this art form that we love so much, stop motion, is very much alive and well.”
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