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Bob Sabiston

Bob Sabiston: Drawing with Life

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    Bob Sabiston and his company Flat Black Films have been making innovative animation since 1987. Using his Rotoshop interpolated rotoscoping software, Sabiston and his fellow animators achieved international recognition for such films as RoadHead, Snack and Drink, Waking Life, and A Scanner Darkly. As an accomplished graphics programmer, Sabiston also recently developed the iPhone mind-mapping program Headspace and is currently working on Inchworm, a paint/animation program for the Nintendo DS.

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Recorded on November 15, 2009.

Filmmaker Bob Sabiston may be best known for his groundbreaking work on indie favorites Waking Life and Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, but his short films were the first to showcase his wholly original technique of merging live-action and animation. Sabiston screens his animated shorts Grasshopper (2003) and The Even More Fun Trip (2007), clips from which are included above, and discusses his work as a documentary filmmaker, graphics programmer, and software innovator.

Above: Animation still from Bob Sabiston's commercial for Charles Schwab

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animated film, graphic design, animation

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