This flipbook project was put together to honour the recently retired NFB executive producer, Michael Fukushima, for his contribution to the animation community. It was initially conceived as a purely independent project from his artists but, by happy coincidence, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival decided this year to rename their annual animation award (formerly the Animasian Award) the Michael Fukushima Animation Award. As such, we thought it would be nice to combine the presentation of the gift with the announcement of the renaming. Each artist contributed one 5-frame loop which was assembled into the film below:
As a retirement gift for Michael, the frames were printed and assembled into a collection of flipbooks:
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Below are the contributions from each individual artist:
Munro Ferguson
Shira Avni
Diane Obomsawin
Marcy Page
John F. Weldon
Torill kove
Jo Meuris
Lillian Chan
Jonathan Ng
Janet Perlman
Lizzy Hobbs
Anne Koizumi
Jason Lee
Howie Shia
James Braithwaite
Ann Marie Fleming
Brandon Blommaert
Fred Cassia
Neely Goniodsky
Sara Guindon
Elise Simard
Candace Couse
Andrew Hicks
Zane Kozak
Aimée van Drimmelen
Koji Yamamura
Randall Okita
Su-An Ng
Frances Adair Mckenzie
Esteban Azuela
Asinnajaq
Eoin Duffy
Joanna Quinn
Alison Snowden
Duncan Major
Chintis Lundren
Marta Pajek
Additional credits: Music by Tim Shia, sound design by John Poon.
Special thanks to Maral Mohammadian and Jelena Popovic.