"8 Minutes of Cavandoli" "A few years ago I stumbled upon an ad in the papers:" "Somebody was looking for an assistant in animation." "It was Nino Pagot, the pioneer of animation." "He was doing a feature," "I applied with some sketches, and got to work, as an apprentice, that's how it all started." "I knew about animation techniques, less about puppets, I first had to learn how they work and what they are made of." "They have a metal skeleton." "all the joints, are made of wire." "This wire sticks to his position, and doesn't bend back." "Everything is covered in foam plastic, and results in a puppet that can move, move its arms," "turn its head, move its body." "There are many ways to move the mouth." "This here uses a mechanical approach." "This old fellow talks like it was common in westerns." "This one on the other hand uses different interchangeable mouth pieces," "depending what he's supposed to say." "Here an open mouth." "At the backside, there is a small magnet," "so it sticks better." "Here you see the counter for the single frames." "For every frame you move it a little to change the position, every leg, so in the film you have the illusion, that the horse moves." "I looked pretty handsome for a greenhorn." "But great was the day, when I saw the first signs of a beard in my face!" "After the hair, the forehead and the eyes, it was the nose's turn." "But soon after the nose was finished..." "Stop laughing!" "Stop laughing, I tell you!" "There was money in animated ads / spots." "But more important was to create something with friends." "I tried to combine both in my animations." "Then I met Carletto Bonomi..." "La Linea was born with myself!" "as a child I already entertained my friends, by speaking with this nasal voice and letting a curse slip every now and then." "Playing the cool teenager!" "For years I made the the films all by myself, very traditional using single frames." "Today I scan my drawings directly into the computer." "A few years ago a german galerist, tried to bring together a lot of international artists, to make drawings and paintings, for the corridors of a new Allianz (insurance company) building." "The artists were supposed to, decorate 600 to 700 meters of corridors with different themes." "I created some stories..." "We met at a filmfestival." "At that time there was less competition amongst filmmakers, and film was less of an industry as it is now." "Cavandoli is someone who can tell stories." "I appreciate that because today they think they only have to make a few drawings, to be called an animator." "He's not one of them." "La Linea was always international for me." "The idea of a single line, alive and talking, is hard to execute, but Cavandoli solved it beautifully." "That's why his work is exceptional." "Hold on a second!" "translated and ripped by GöTTERSTURM"