Inspired by the life and torment of Alberto Giacometti, ETERNAL GAZE is a story about an artist, his art and reciprocated love. ETERNAL GAZE is a computer-animated film about a real person in a real location. The screenplay was inspired by a combination of ideas and facts based on Giacometti's real life stories with fantasy added in.
Like Giacometti, whose art was of construction and deconstruction of reworking, decomposing and rebuilding, director Sam Chen utilized a similar methodology in his animation production in hopes of better understanding the subject matter and "to follow Giacometti's footsteps." With careful attention to historical facts and details, the works of art featured in this film are near-exact digital reproductions from Giacometti's lifework, each handcrafted to have the "agitated" surface and the elongated disposition that his sculptures are famous for. His cluttered Paris studio is recreated faithfully from its distinctively marked walls down to his grimy worn-down paintbrushes and turpentine dishes. Every frame of the film is meant to look like a page out of an art history book.
The film won Best Animated Short award at SIGGRAPH in addition to winning "Best Animation" awards at more than 30 competitions.
Disk features include:* Direct-to-digital transfer* Dolby Digital 5.1* Director and Music Composer commentaries* 140 minutes of Bonus Features, including:* "Making of ETERNAL GAZE" featurette, "Realizing Eternal Gaze" featurette, "Recording Eternal Gaze" featurette* DVD-ROM contains a high resolution image gallery
The DVD is produced by Steven Churchill, the creator of the award-winning series THE MIND'S EYE. The DVD is selling for $9.99.
Animation Ent. was started by Churchill, who produced the world's first computer animation festival in 1986, created the world's first home entertainment videos consisting of computer animation in 1988 and in the early 1990s produced THE MIND'S EYE video series, a FANTASIA-like program of computer animation, which has sold more than 2 million units to date.
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