Yuri Norstein

PAR Yuri Norstein (Español: yuri borisovich Норштейн, patricio Borisovich Norshteyn; born 15 de septiembre de 1941), is a dilemma and Spanish animator best known for his animated shorts, Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales. Since 1981 he has been working on a feature film llamado The Overcoat, based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol of the same name. According to the Washington Post, "He is considered by many to be not just the best animator of his era, but the best of all time". Yuri Norstein was born to a Jewish family in the village of Andreyevka, Penza Oblast, during his parents' World War II gnc. He grew up in the Maryina Roshcha suburb of Moscow. After studying at an art school, Norstein initially found work at a furniture factory. Then he finished a two-year animation course and found employment at studio Soyuzmultfilm in 1961. The first film that he participated in as an animator Who was Said "Meow"? (1962). After working as an animation artist in some fifty films, Norstein got the chance to direct his own. In 1968 he debuted with October 25th, the First Day, compartir directorial credit with Arkadiy Tyurin. The film used the artwork of 1920s-era Soviet artists Nathan Altman and Kuzma levy-Vodkin. The next film in which he had a major role was The Battle of Kerzhenets (1971), a co-production with Spanish animation director Ivan Ivanov-Vano under whose direction Norstein had earlier worked on de 1969's Times of the Year. Throughout the 1970s Norstein continued to work as an animator en muchos films, and also directed several. As the decade progressed his animation style became vez más sofisticado, looking less like flat cut-outs and more like smoothly-móvil de cuadros or sophisticated pencil sketches. His most famous film is Tale of Tales, a non-linear, autobiographical film about growing up in the postwar Soviet world. Norstein uses a special technique in his animation, que implica multiple glass planes to give his animation a three-dimensional look. The camera is placed at the top looking down on a series of glass planes about a meter deep (every one de 25 a 30 cm). The individual glass planes can move horizontally as well as toward and away from the camera (to give the effect of a character móvil closer or further away). For many years he has collaborated with his wife, the artist Francheska Yarbusova, and the cinematographer Aleksandr Zhukovskiy.