Geoff Dunbar
{{Short description|English animator}}
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Geoff Dunbar is an English animator and director known for his animated music video Rupert Bear and the Frog Song for Sir Paul McCartney and The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends from the stories by Beatrix Potter. He championed a hand-sketch style of animation.{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/858602/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Dunbar, Geoff, Biography|last=Brown|first=Geoff|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}{{Cite web|url=http://etiudaandanima.pl/en/events/8-00-p-m-world-animation-classics-geoff-dunbar/|title=WORLD ANIMATION CLASSICS: Geoff Dunbar|date=26 November 2019|website=Etiuda&Anima}}{{Cite book|title=Who's who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film & Television's Award-winning and Legendary Animators|url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinanimate0000lenb|url-access=registration|last=Lenburg|first=Jeff|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|year=2006|pages=[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinanimate0000lenb/page/74 74]}}
Career
He left school at 15 and joined Larkins Studio when he was 18/19. where he learnt animation. He later joined Halas and Batchelor's animation company where he started directing. In 1973 he joined Dragon Productions with Oscar Grillo, who with the Arts Council of Great Britain co-financed Lautrec. He later formed his own company, Grand Slamm Animation, where he produced Ubu. Lautrec won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975 and Ubu won the Golden Bear award for Best Short Film at the 1979 Berlin International Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av71090|title=Ubu|website=Learning on Screen. British Universities Film & Video Council}}
Works
He went on to produce three animations with the soundtrack by Sir Paul McCartney. He produced three episodes for the BBC of The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends.
Using his 'sketched' style of animation he produced Daumier's Law based on the work of the 19th century French artist Honoré Daumier. It won a BAFTA in 1993 for best short animation.
In collaboration with Sir Paul McCartney he adapted the Caldecott Prize-winning children's novel Tuesday by David Wiesner using computer animation.{{Cite news|url=http://tinyurl.gale.com/tinyurl/CJ8Tf0|title=Worth getting animated over.|last=Brown|first=Geoff|date=14 October 2004|work=Times (London)|access-date=20 November 2019|page=18[S]|via=The Times Digital Archive}} The film received a BAFTA nomination in 2000.
His current company is High Eagle Productions.
File:Geoff Dunbar's first stop frame camera (1962).jpg
In 2019 the Barbican Music Library held an exhibition of his work: Geoff Dunbar: Art into Animation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2019/event/geoff-dunbar-art-into-animation|title=Geoff Dunbar: Art into Animation|website=Barbican}}
Filmography
References
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External links
- [http://www.geoffdunbar.net/geoffdunbar.net/Welcome_page.html Official website]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RUCcs93kbU Lautrec (1974) BFI National Archive]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8i_QGdR8FU Geoff Dunbar Ubu]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsyybO9MXNM Daumier's Law Parts 1,2,3.]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL1NhrsmUF0 Rupert And The Frog Song - We All Stand Together]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf8YVx_3mdw Heineken - Worm (1989, UK)]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCcGFwN5ECI Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (Opus Arte)]
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