{"id":1528,"date":"2008-12-03T07:14:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T20:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2008-12-03T07:16:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T20:16:51","slug":"the-lost-thing-animated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/03\/the-lost-thing-animated\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Thing… Animated"},"content":{"rendered":"

The work of Shaun Tan — The Rabbits<\/em>, The Arrival<\/em>, The Lost Thing<\/em>, The Red Tree<\/em> and most recently the superb Tales from Outer Suburbia<\/em> — are brilliant, good-natured yet edgy, quirky and luminous — a bit like Shaun himself.<\/p>\n

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Full of unique and emotionally truthful images, Shaun’s not-really-for-children children’s books present a world that is thoughtful and humanistic, despite its weirdness. If you spend some time listening to Shaun talking about his art, you quickly come to realise that you’re listening to a real live genius in his field — even though Shaun himself is never pretentious or self-aggrandising.<\/p>\n

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Now the exciting news comes that Shaun has been working on an animated version of The Lost Thing<\/em>, which is due for release in 2009. It is produced by Passion Pictures Australia with financing from both Screen Australia<\/a> and Passion Pictures<\/a>. At 15 minutes long, The Lost Thing<\/em> with be created using CGI but with 2D handpainted elements. Shaun will be acting in the capacity of director, designer and writer.<\/p>\n

Shaun’s says about the book:<\/p>\n

What started out as an amusing nonsensical story soon developed into a fable about all sorts of social concerns, with a rather ambiguous ending. I became quite interested in the idea of a creature or person who really did not come from anywhere, or have an existing relationship to anything, and was \u2018just plain lost\u2019. I wanted to tell the story from the point of view of a character that would represent how I might personally respond to this, so the unnamed narrator is essentially me (although I used to collect sea shells at the beach, rather than bottle-tops).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is a brief document on the making of the film in which you can see some teasing moments of animation.<\/p>\n

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