Animation Research:
Whilst researching animations I stumbled across the French stop motion animation Madame Tutli-Putli on YouTube. I was unsure what to think of the general storyline at first but I soon found it ever so intriguing from the use of camera angles; much like how a film is presented.
What I liked most about the animation was that it had no dialogue what so ever. The sound effects and music could stand on its own even when there was human interaction.
Although the Animation did go on for a full 16 minutes I was still easily amused by the personalities of the characters of the chess players, the tennis player, the child reading his 'How to handle your enemies' book and of course Madam Tutli-Putli herself.
It's my first horror themed animation I've watched and am quite taken by it as it still managed to have comical moments when necessary.
As soon as I finished watching it I researched it straight away hoping it would be an infamous niche animation but to my surprise it had won the Canal and Grand Prize for best short film along with the Petit Rail d'Or at The Cannes Film Festival in 2007.Which was well deserved as it had taken the filmmakers more than five years to make, having spent a previous 2 weeks living on a train on the Canadian collecting stories. It also had an Oscar nomination in January 2008 and in late June 2008 it had won the "Best of the Festival" award at the Melbourne International Animation Festival.
