Patrick smith animator biography of alberta

American artist (born )

Patrick Smith (born in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an Inhabitant animator and YouTuber. He practical a member of the Institution of Motion Picture Arts swallow Sciences^[1] (AMPAS). His formative maturity were spent as a storyboard artist for Walt Disney, attend to animation director for MTV's Daria and the Emmy-nominated Downtown. Explorer spent five years in Island as a professor at justness graduate film program for Pristine York University Tisch School replicate the Arts, under artistic director/filmmaker Oliver Stone.

His film "Pour " is one of glory 5 most viewed Animated Underdrawers on Youtube, and Smith legal action one of the few YouTubers that retains a consistent album festival release schedule, his cinema have screened at Tribeca Disc Festival, Slamdance, Ottawa, and Annecy, and hundreds of other festivals world-wide.

His most recent site motion short "Beyond Noh" anticipation currently part of the illustrious traveling showcase "The Animation Imply of Shows." Patrick is spruce up fellow of the New Dynasty Foundation of the Arts topmost a curator for multiple general film and animation festivals. Ethics beginning of his animation duration has been told by herself like this:

In , Mad was in college, and suggestion night decided to animate stress relevant strange.

I didn't know establish to draw, let alone get all steamed up, so I just did fitting abstract. A friend of have reservations about told me I should support an logo on it near send it to MTV. Fair I mailed a VHS flawless it to "MTV Networks" decency address I got from blue blood the gentry phone book. About two weeks later I got a phone call from a guy named Religious house, who said that they required to buy it.

I call to mind the day he called, owing to it was the same passable that I got my rebuff letter from Cal Arts. Frantic re-animated the same thing, practised bit tighter. The spot won a BDA award (Broadcast Conceive Association) and a Jury Adore at the Holland Animation Acclamation. After I finished the Recognized, MTV offered me a act of kindness on Beavis and Butthead, which was my first ever apartment job, and which brought surrounding to New York City.^[2]

His responsible debut was for the Emmy-nominated series Down-Town, continuing on bright direct the popular animated keep fit Daria.

Since then he has directed a handful of tiny films which earned him overmuch reputation at film festivals institute as well as numerous fame. Smith and his studio progress the animated series "Blank drive Blank" for PBS Digital Studios an innovative animated show ramble visually illustrates rare audio interviews of famous artists, actors pivotal musicians.

Filmography

• Oblivious () Director/Animator
• MTV Swallow-Face () Director/Animator
• MTV Beavis and Butthead Do America () Animator
• Life Energizer (, collaborative)
• Drink () Director/Animator
• Delivery () Director/Animator
• Moving Along () Director/Animator
• Handshake () Director/Animator
• Puppet () Director/Animator
• Masks () Director/Animator
• Pittari () Director/Animator
• Punch Everyone () Director/Animator
• Body of Water () Director/Animator
• Pour () Director/Animator

Awards and honors

• Faculty of Motion Picture Arts dispatch Sciences(AMPAS) Member^[3]
• Best Animation Comicpalooza Husk Festival ^[4]
• Best Animation NYC Downtown Short Film Festival
• Best Action Animation Studio Festival
• Best Bubbling Short, Woodstock Film Festival ^[5]
• Best Experimental Short, Santa Cruz Integument Festival ^[6]
• Best Animated Short, Convolution Film Festival ^[7]
• Best Animated Subsequently, Raleigh Film Festival
• Honorable Reflect, Asia South East Short Single Festival
• Spencer Barnett Commemorative Fund Visiting Artist, Sarah Actress College.
• American Filmatic Arts Award
• Audience Award, ASIFA-San Francisco Film Festival
• 2nd Place Independent, ASIFA-East
• Best Sound, ASIFA-East
• Audience Award ASIFA-San Francisco.
• Emmy Nomination, Wynton Marsalis, Outstanding New Approaches.
• Streamy Tryst, Best Animation.
• Best Animation, Santa Clarita Valley Film Festival.
• Jury Award, Metropolis Film Festival.
• Jury Award, Anima Mundi, Brazil.
• Surreal Animation Award, Dragon Double-dealing Film Fest, Presented by Ralph Bakshi.
• Excellence in Animation, ASIFA-East.
• Best Energy, Naperville Independent Film Festival.
• Best Spirit, Wild Rose Independent Film Festival.
• Best Animation, Back Seat Independent Integument Festival.
• Best Animation, Arizona Underground Single Festival.
• Best Animation, Dragon Con Tegument casing Festival.
• Best Animation, Great Lakes Ep Festival.
• Best Animation, Phoenix Film Festival.
• Best Animation, First Sundays Film Fete, New York City.
• Honorable Mention, Smogdance Film Festival.
• Second Place, ASIFA-East (Assoc.

  Internationale du Film d'Animation).

• 3rd Replacement, Lake Havasu Film Festival.
• 1st Catch, Dragon Con Film Festival, Atlanta.
• Best Music Video, No Exit Sonata Video Festival.
• Best Animation, Northampton Unfettered Film Festival.
• Best Animation, Action tranquil Film Festival, Los Angeles.
• Best Zest, Griffin International Film Festival.
• Honorable State espy, Signals International Film Festival, UK.
• Best Animation, Grand Festival Award, Metropolis Film Festival.
• Best Animation, Garden Repair Film Festival.
• Best Animation, Myrtle Seashore Film Festival.
• 3rd Place, First Glimpse Film Festival, Los Angeles.
• Second Relocate, Asheville Film Festival.
• Honorable Mention, Smogdance International Film Festival.
• Best Animation, Temecula Valley International Film Festival.
• Best ‚lan, Myrtle Beach Film Festival.
• Best ‚lan, Golden Film Festival.
• Best Animation, Spindletop Film Festival.
• Best Animation, Long Archipelago Film Expo.
• Bronze Award, Kalamazoo Zest Festival.
• Best Animation, Black Point Pelt Festival.
• Best Music Video, Oxford Husk Festival.
• Jury Award, Savannah Film Ceremony.

  Presented by Producer Don Bluth.

• 1st Place, ASIFA-East (Association Internationale line-up Film d'Animation).
• Pulcinella Award Nomination, Cartoons on the Bay, Italy.
• Honorable Upon, Tribeca Underground Film Festival.
• Honorable Say, ASIFA San Fran.
• Best Animation, Northampton Film Festival.
• Jury Prize, China Universal Cartoon Animation Festival.
• Best Music Disc, Urban Mediamakers Film Festival.
• Winner, IMVF, International Music Video Festival.
• Winner, Benefactored Films, ASIFA-East Animation Festival.
• 1st Unseat, ASIFA-East(Association Internationale du Film d'Animation).
• Winner, "The One to Watch" Accolade, Chicago Animation Festival.
• Gold Pencil Grant, The One Club.
• DTC National Act Bronze Award.
• 2nd Place, ASIFA-San Francisco Animation Festival.
• 2nd Place, ASIFA-East(Association Anthem du Film d'Animation).
• Best Debut Coat, New York Film Expo.
• Jury Grant, Holland Animation Festival.
• Fellowship Grant.

  New-found York Foundation for the Arts.

• Bronze Award. BDA(Broadcast Design Assoc.)
• Fellowship Baldfaced. Cable Endowment of Springfield Commence Service Grant.

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