NY Times article on Paul Fierlinger

[Fabrice]

Already there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fierlinger

ah ok, I didn't find it when using the wikipedia research engine.

[slowtiger]

LA Times article
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/ne ... 0372.story

Found via cartoonbrew.

[mox]

My Dog Tulip, Sunday the 11th of December, 8:30PM
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[Elodie]

Conçu de A à Z sur tablette graphique sans le moindre recours au papier par les époux Fierlinger, My Dog Tulip est une merveille de l’animation artisanale, pleine d’humour adulte pince-sans-rire et d’une émotion croissante qui ont frappé les esprits au festival d’Annecy 2009.

Translation :

Entirely made on graphical tablets without any paper sheets by the Fierlingers, My Dog Tulip is a wonderful handcrafted animation, full of dry wit, with a growing emotion which stroke spirits at the Festival in Annecy 2009

(hope my translation is understandable and transcribe well the good feelings of the original French version =)

[Paul Fierlinger]

You can't beat this one from the Metro Times:

Ultimately, what makes My Dog Tulip such a terrific success is its spare New Yorker cartoon-style animation. Though it looks hand-drawn, the film is wholly computer-generated, employing thousands upon thousands of pixel-derived illustrations to create its fluid, watercolor effects. It's wonderfully expressive stuff, simple in its execution but continually filled with visual delights and surprises. You'll be amazed at how much character and personality the filmmakers squeeze from the smudge-like pastel that is Tulip.

[Paul Fierlinger]

It only gets better (frome the Real Detroit):


by Kirk Vanderbeek

Stylistically somewhere between Yellow Submarine, the Radiohead video for "Paranoid Android" and a hastily penciled bathroom scrawling, My Dog Tulip is an animated story (based on the writings of J.R. Ackerley) that tells of one man's devotion to his dastardly dog Tulip. This film is stark and frank, riddled with poetic meanderings (lovingly voiced by Christopher Plummer) on times when Tulip is "moved to open her bowels," or when her doting owner, in attempts to mate her, drops lines like: "I smeared her lavishly with Vaseline." Such sequences are then accompanied with hand-drawn close-ups of Tulip's anal glands ... and labia.

My Dog Tulip is hypnotic, strangely calming and awkwardly intriguing. The wall this film will put up between itself and the average viewer is the fact that its depiction of the relationship between these two is less charming than it is bizarre. At a point, Ackerman inspects Tulip's anal gland and immediately eats a jelly doughnut, licking spilled jelly off the same finger that was moments ago ... yeah. Ackerman is not a guy with sweet obliviousness to his dog's irritating quirks; he's a man with complete and utter disregard for his dog's often dangerous and unacceptable behavior. Or at least that's how this oft-surreal and strangely sexual film paints it. Your young ones will never be the same should you mistakenly drag them to this ... | RDW

[Elodie]

Marvellous ! =D

[Byron]

Though it looks hand-drawn, the film is wholly computer-generated,

Eek! What have you been doing all this time, while your computer made your film for you?

[Elodie]

hahaha

[Paul Fierlinger]

Though it looks hand-drawn, the film is wholly computer-generated,

Eek! What have you been doing all this time, while your computer made your film for you?

Fondling my dogs.

[Hervé]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has received 15 submissions for this year's Best Animated Feature Film category, meaning three films will be nominated for the Oscar.

The fifteen qualifying films are:

* Alpha and Omega
* Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
* Despicable Me
* The Dreams of Jinsha
* How to Train Your Dragon
* Idiots and Angels
* The Illusionist
* Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
* Megamind
* My Dog Tulip
* Shrek Forever After
* Summer Wars
* Tangled
* Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
* Toy Story 3



Congratulations Paul.

[Byron]

Wow! Congratulations Paul. Well deserved.

[Elodie]

[Paul Fierlinger]

Thanks, but there's not a chance that Tulip will go any further up that list. There's a lot of dirty gaming going on behind the scenes of which I have refused to be a participant (to the great chagrin of our producer). Besides, Tulip is not a film that everybody likes. Although strangely, the films that get on this list are judged by a simple point system; one point for each good review, minus 2 points for every bad review.

We are the third in line; one of only three films with a score in the nineties. Film critiques and reviewers like us, but this hasn't been translating into ticket sales, which has a direct correlation to the nominations. The big deal about getting nominated is supposedly that it helps boost DVD sales but I'm not so sure how much this translates into any substantial sales -- just like 96% excellent reviews don't necessarily translate into box office sales.

Dog lovers, bucolics and literates are our target audience and they tend to rely on individually crafted judgments and intuitions sharpened by years of being fooled by hype -- and I believe they number in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions (worldwide).

BTW, I hear that our producer is very close to closing a distribution deal in the U.K. If this indeed goes through, Tulip would premiere in London (or Nottingham) in March -- after three months of media hype.

[Fabrice]

Paul, if ever you come in London, I will be there, please inform me asap.