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Angela Eliasz:
3D Animation Technical & Lighting Director Animatus Studio and the High Falls Film Festival were pleased to welcome Angela Eliasz to the 2004 program.
FROM ROCHESTER TO HARRY POTTER, THE MATRIX AND SPIDERMAN: A CONVERSATION WITH 3-D ANIMATOR ANGELA ELIASZ
Sunday, November 14, 2004
Angela Eliasz, a native of Rochester, graduated from SUNY Oswego in 1993 with degrees in Graphic Arts and International Marketing. Beginning in 1994, Angela spent three years at Animatus Studio learning the fundamentals of 2D hand drawn animation. It was during this time she was introduced to the use of computers in aiding the process of commercial and industrial animation.
In 1997 she was one of thirteen international students to be accepted for postgraduate work in 3D animation at Sheridan College in Ontario, Canada. After completing her course of study, she eventually landed a job at Square Pictures in Hawaii. There, Angela worked on Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, the first 3D feature film to provide photo-realistic and visually convincing human characters.
At the time of the 2004 High Falls Film Festival, Angela was busy working on Sony Pictures Digital's animated feature Open Season, a buddy film about a 600 pound domesticated Grizzly bear named Boog (voiced by Martin Lawrence) and Eliot, a scrawny a one-horned mule deer (voiced by Ashton Kutcher), who are stranded together in the woods during hunting season.
For her seminar at the George Eastman House, Angela screened a variety of clips and gave an overview of her career as a senior technical and lighting director in Hollywood. Angela discussed how she got her start in animation, the complexities of her job, and what it is like to work in the 3D animation world, which until recently was staffed mainly by men.
The event was well-attended and gave an interesting look at one woman’s lifework through the world of 3D animation in feature films. Many audience members were students who appreciated discovering more about the high tech world of special effects and animation that are changing the way films are made today.
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Links
Final Fantasy on DVD Harry Potter: The Official Movie Website The Haunted Mansion on DVD The Matrix Reloaded on DVD Spider-Man: The Official Movie Website Stuart Little 2 on DVD Animation Program Index | High Falls Film Fest Official Site | Animatus Main Page
Final Fantasy and related characters are © SquareSoft and Sony Pictures.
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Soon after, Angela moved from being a 3D lighting technician at Square to a technical and lighting director for Sony Pictures Imageworks. She has since worked on major motion pictures such as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Stuart Little 2, The Matrix: Reloaded, The Haunted Mansion, and Spider-Man 2.
