Jon Klassen and Dan Rodrigues: “An Eye For Annai”. It’s #100!
Channel Frederator has reached its 26th Episode, and its 100th FILM! Coming in at #100 is the festival favorite, “An Eye For Annai” animated by Jon Klassen and Dan Rodrigues. The premise is simple–Annai is searching for…an eye. The title makes me smile. The animation is clean and simple. Truth be told, everything about this film is endearing.
Says Jon Klassen, “This film was done by me and Dan Rodrigues in our third year at Sheridan College’s Classical Animation Program. I can’t really remember how the concept came about–we wanted to do an idea that would be best told through animation, and we wanted an excuse to go to a lot of different places really quickly. In terms of execution, all the animation is hand drawn and scanned
frame-by-frame, but we coloured our lines so you can’t really see the
drawing. The backgrounds are a mix of computer, hand drawing, and scanned textures, and we put the whole thing together in after effects. The backgrounds are a mix of traditional and digital. I played the recorder for the soundtrack.”
“Annai” has been exhibited nationally in some of the top animation festivals in the world, including the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Annecy Film Festival, and the Hiroshima International Animation Festival.
Guys, I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate our 100th film. Thanks so much for being a part of Channel Frederator history!
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