Learn and be inspired!
One of the many highlights of SPARK ANIMATION are the Production Sessions. Presented by some of the industry’s top talent, this is your opportunity to go behind the scenes of some of the most innovative and exciting new projects of the year.
Prepare to be wowed!
In her new project The Orchid and the Bee, interdisciplinary artist Frances Adair Mckenzie brings a keen sense of play to the realm of virtual reality by combining the tactile materiality of old-school stop-motion animation and stereoscopy with cutting-edge technology. The result is an expressionistic spiral ode to our evolutionary future and life's labyrinthine struggle for existence, as seen through a chain of genetic love affairs.
In this exclusive presentation, Frances will offer insight into her artistic process – from initial research into co-evolution, to the construction of a rotating motorized set and stereo workflows for VR compositing in Nuke.
SPEAKER BIO
FRANCES ADAIR MCKENZIE
Frances Adair Mckenzie is an interdisciplinary artist who has exhibited in Canada and Europe. Her work negotiates speculative investigations into concepts of materiality, staging and form, always in deference to process as the hands-on manipulation of real materials and objects, most often through the interface of digital technology and sculpture.
Frances’s augmented reality book, "Glossed Over & Tucked Up," was published in 2016 by Montreal’s Anteism Press. Her association with the Nation Film Board of Canada began with the 10th edition of Hothouse, when she created the surrealist animated short A Little Craving. Her most recent NFB project, The Orchid and the Bee, is a VR stop-motion animation that speaks to the interconnectedness of all living things. Frances lives and works in Montreal.
Learn and be inspired!
One of the many highlights of SPARK ANIMATION are the Production Sessions. Presented by some of the industry’s top talent, this is your opportunity to go behind the scenes of some of the most innovative and exciting new projects of the year.
Prepare to be wowed!
In her new project The Orchid and the Bee, interdisciplinary artist Frances Adair Mckenzie brings a keen sense of play to the realm of virtual reality by combining the tactile materiality of old-school stop-motion animation and stereoscopy with cutting-edge technology. The result is an expressionistic spiral ode to our evolutionary future and life's labyrinthine struggle for existence, as seen through a chain of genetic love affairs.
In this exclusive presentation, Frances will offer insight into her artistic process – from initial research into co-evolution, to the construction of a rotating motorized set and stereo workflows for VR compositing in Nuke.
SPEAKER BIO
FRANCES ADAIR MCKENZIE
Frances Adair Mckenzie is an interdisciplinary artist who has exhibited in Canada and Europe. Her work negotiates speculative investigations into concepts of materiality, staging and form, always in deference to process as the hands-on manipulation of real materials and objects, most often through the interface of digital technology and sculpture.
Frances’s augmented reality book, "Glossed Over & Tucked Up," was published in 2016 by Montreal’s Anteism Press. Her association with the Nation Film Board of Canada began with the 10th edition of Hothouse, when she created the surrealist animated short A Little Craving. Her most recent NFB project, The Orchid and the Bee, is a VR stop-motion animation that speaks to the interconnectedness of all living things. Frances lives and works in Montreal.
