In 2016, he created the animated vignette Be Cool for the NFB satirical public service announcement series, Naked Island. It won the best short film prize at the Annecy animation Festival 2013. Subconscious Password was his third with the NFB, Seneca College and Copperheart Entertainment. Digital Pictures and Seneca College, The Spine depicts a man who's physically and figuratively spineless and the breakdown of his marriage. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with Copperheart Entertainment, C.O.R.E. Landreth's 2009 film The Spine won the Best of the Festival award at the Melbourne International Animation Festival. This resulted in the 2004 production of Ryan, which won an Oscar in 2005. Afterward, he met Ryan Larkin, a renowned animator in the 1960s and 1970s, who had recently fallen in a spiral of excessive drinking, cocaine abuse, and homelessness. The End was nominated in 1996 for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. This resulted in the productions of The End and Bingo. Such products include 'movie Grade' software, not limited to but including programs, such as Maya, from the Toronto-based animation firm, Alias (formerly Alias|wavefront, now owned by Autodesk). Afterwards in 1994, he was hired to define, test, and sometimes even abuse computer graphics software products. Three years following, he experimented in fluid mechanics research, until he made baby steps into the world of computer animation. He received a BS(1984) in General Engineering and a MS(1986) degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the University of Illinois. He has made many CGI animated films since the mid-1990s, including The End, Bingo, The Listener, Caustic Sky: A Portrait of Regional Acid Deposition, and Data Driven The Story Of Franz K.Īfter being an engineer for years, Chris quit and began a second career as an animator. Chris Landreth (born August 4, 1961) is an American animator working in Canada, best known for his work on the 2004 film Ryan.

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