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Adam Elliot's clay animated film "Mary and Max"
| November 19, 2008
Link: Mary and Max movie site
| November 19, 2008
Adam Elliot's 92-minute clay animation film, Mary and Max, will premiere at the 2009 Sundance Festival.
Mary and Max took almost 5 years to create. The film was shot using 6 hi-res Canon digital still cameras and is made up of approx. 132,480 individual frames.
excerpt from press release: "Written and directed by Eliot, Mary and Max tells the tale of an improbable friendship between two very different people: Mary Daisy Dinkle (Collette) a lonely Australian eight-year-old, and Max Jerry Horovitz (Hoffman), a middle-aged New Yorker. Spanning 20 years and two continents, Mary and Max is a journey that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, obesity, kleptomania, sexual difference, religious difference, agoraphobia and more. The film is narrated by Australian legend Barry Humphries and features cameos from Eric Bana, singer Renee Geyer and Australian music icon Ian "Molly" Meldrum along with Julie Forsyth and John Flaus."
Australian animator Adam Elliot's short film Harvey Krumpet, won an Academy Award in 2003.
There is no trailer posted for Mary and Max yet. From looking around on the film's website, this looks like a slightly dark, uniquely animated film (with a curious, yet intriging story line). I don't anticipate I'll make it out to Sundance on January 15, but this film will be on my list for whenever it makes its way to theaters. Here's a look at a few of the main characters (via some screen shoots I made from the site) and some humorous description excerpts:
The voice of Mary Daisy Dinkle will be provided by Toni Collette.
Mary "has eyes the colour of muddy puddles and a birthmark the colour of poo..."
The voice of Max Jerry Horowitz will be provided by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Max is a "three hundred pound atheistic New York who has Asperger's Syndrome and an addiction to chocolate hot-dogs, The New York Lottery and National Geographics..."
The voice of Damien Cyril Popodopolous will be provided by Eric Bana.
Damien "smells like lemon dishwashing liquid and has skin smoother than the back of a spoon..."
The voice of Vera Lorraine Dinkle will be provided by Renée Geyer.
Vera is "addicted to cooking Sherry, listening to cricket on the radio, baking and shoplifting..."
All the character designs for the film have so much personality. I'm very excited to see this (hopefully next year).
Link: Mary and Max movie site
Tags: animation, character design, film
Topic: Animation
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