The Annecy Worldwide Animation Competition has revealed its 2023 version official poster, created by acclaimed Maya and the Three director Jorge R. Gutierrez. With this yr’s competition highlight on Mexican animation, the Mexican animator and aficionado of Mexican tradition and folklore created a heart-warming firework show saying the upcoming version, which runs June 11-17.
“Jorge’s work is deeply rooted in Mexican well-liked tradition and folklore, however additionally it is zealously festive,” commented Marcel Jean, the Annecy Competition’s Inventive Director. “He flaunts a beneficiant, Baroque, and colourful artistry that is filled with surprises, which incarnates the competition’s very spirit. This poster invitations you to come back and occasion with us!”
An Emmy and Annie Award-winning animator, Gutierrez can be a painter, voice actor, and author. A graduate of the CalArts Experimental Animation BFA & MFA graduate, he has produced a wide range of movies, cartoons, and work exploring his “love affair” with Mexican pop and folks tradition.
“The poster could be very impressed by all of the spectacular nighttime events at our beloved Competition,” shared Gutierrez. “A Mexican ‘Xochimilco trajinera’ boat arrives on Lake Annecy carrying a lot of completely satisfied and excited Mexicans able to occasion. The town itself is glowing, it is shining like a heat magical place.”
Gutierrez directed and co-wrote the animated characteristic The Guide of Life, incomes him a 2014 Golden Globe Award nomination. Working together with his spouse, Sandra Equihua, they created the a number of Emmy Award-winning animated sequence El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera for Nickelodeon. Gutierrez most just lately created, wrote, and directed the Netflix sequence Maya and the Three, which garnered two Annie Awards and 5 Emmy nominations. Presently, he’s creating a Netflix animated characteristic titled I, Chihuahua with Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias.
Watch Gutierrez share his inspiration and inventive course of:
Gutierrez can even be serving on the Jury for the 2023 Version.
Supply: Annecy Worldwide Animation Competition
Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
