Shaun Tan Essay
Shaun Tan (1974)
-Conceptual Framework-
Artist
Shaun Tan grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth situated in Western Australia. As a young boy he was always known as the “good drawer” at school which, in a way, made him forget about being the shortest kid in every class. In 1995, he graduated from the University of Western Australia with joint honours in English Literature and Fine Arts and is now working full time as a freelance author and artist in Melbourne. Shaun started sketching and painting pictures for science fiction and horror stories in small-press magazines as a teenager. He has also previously worked as a theatre designer and as a concept artist for the films ‘Horton Hears a Who’ and Pixar’s WALL-E and directed the academy award winning short film ‘The …show more content…
This requires time, patience and a lot of skill. Some of Shaun’s famous works in animation include; ‘The Lost Thing (2010), The Red Tree (2011), The Arrival (2011) and Aqua sapiens (2005). The Animation I will be focusing on today however is The Lost Thing, a very successful short film by Shaun Tan. The short animation is 15 minutes long using CGI (computer generated imagery) with 2D hand painted elements, and was completed in April 2010, and has been screened at various film festivals, with a DVD release by Madman in late 2010. The story line of the animation is a young boy who discovers a bizarre-looking creature while out collecting bottle-tops at a beach (as Shaun loved to do as a boy). Having guessed that it is lost, he tries to find out who owns it or where it belongs, but the problem is met with indifference by everyone else, who barely notice its presence. Each is unhelpful in their own way; strangers, friends, parents are all unwilling to entertain this uninvited interruption to day-to-day life. In spite of his better judgement, the boy feels sorry for this hapless creature, and attempts to find out where it
-Conceptual Framework-
Artist
Shaun Tan grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth situated in Western Australia. As a young boy he was always known as the “good drawer” at school which, in a way, made him forget about being the shortest kid in every class. In 1995, he graduated from the University of Western Australia with joint honours in English Literature and Fine Arts and is now working full time as a freelance author and artist in Melbourne. Shaun started sketching and painting pictures for science fiction and horror stories in small-press magazines as a teenager. He has also previously worked as a theatre designer and as a concept artist for the films ‘Horton Hears a Who’ and Pixar’s WALL-E and directed the academy award winning short film ‘The …show more content…
This requires time, patience and a lot of skill. Some of Shaun’s famous works in animation include; ‘The Lost Thing (2010), The Red Tree (2011), The Arrival (2011) and Aqua sapiens (2005). The Animation I will be focusing on today however is The Lost Thing, a very successful short film by Shaun Tan. The short animation is 15 minutes long using CGI (computer generated imagery) with 2D hand painted elements, and was completed in April 2010, and has been screened at various film festivals, with a DVD release by Madman in late 2010. The story line of the animation is a young boy who discovers a bizarre-looking creature while out collecting bottle-tops at a beach (as Shaun loved to do as a boy). Having guessed that it is lost, he tries to find out who owns it or where it belongs, but the problem is met with indifference by everyone else, who barely notice its presence. Each is unhelpful in their own way; strangers, friends, parents are all unwilling to entertain this uninvited interruption to day-to-day life. In spite of his better judgement, the boy feels sorry for this hapless creature, and attempts to find out where it