Tennessee Reid Norton
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Los Angeles California USA |
Contact Type: Artist |
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Bio:
It all started when Tennessee's father Ferris Wendel Norton Jr. brought the 8mm Bell & Howell camera with the single frame "Animation" button home. By his teens Tennessee had created films staring fighting action figures, pixalated relatives, and superhero neighborhood kids. His first animations were self taught using Kit Laybourne's The Animation Book: A Complete Guide to Animated Filmmaking as a textbook. Heading west Tennessee focused on practical theory and application of filmmaking at The City College of San Francisco before begining his professional animation career on Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, which subsequently landed him the role of principal animator on ABC'S Bump in the Night. During this period, he also produced and directed several of his own films, including the award winning festival favorite stop-motion short, The Lizard Whomper & If I Had a Hammer. Tennessee returned to live-action to produce F. Scott Fitzgerald's -The Sensible Thing, for Empathy Films, which was televised on PBS's series American Storytellers. He then blended his animation and live-action experience as a Producer / Motion Capture Performer on Squeezils: The Movie! For Protozoa Inc, which won Best Animation from a CDROM at The 97 World Animation Celebration. In an amazing twist of fate Tennessee had the pleasure of being included in the new updated edition of The Animation Book by Kit Laybourne - the same book where he first learned his craft. Between seasons working as a stop-motion animator for Will Vinton Studios on Eddie Murphy's The PJ's, he wrote, directed and produced another short entitled The Answer. In a heart-wrenching twist, the negative was lost in a studio reorganization. More than a year later a digital transfer of the shots was discovered, kicking off a flurry of re-engineering. Effects, audio and music were completed in September of 2003 and The Answer is currently turing with Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation. After The PJ's, Tennessee was a Lead Animator on Gary & Mike for Bahr & Small/Big Ticket Entertainment - originally broadcast on UPN then airing on Comedy Central. Spring of 2004 Tennessee was the Animation Director of Facing that Void, a stop-motion animation / marionette music video for the French hip hop band The General Electrics. Summer and Fall of 2004 Tennessee animated for his pal director Roy T. Wood on his pilot for MTV - The Statistics Show as well as the first "R" rated stop-motion animated feature film - Disaster which is due for theatrical release October of 2006. In 2005-2006 he animated for Cartoon Network Adult Swim on Seth Green's Robot Chicken as well as Moral Orel. Tennessee resides in Los Angeles and has a number of live-action and animated projects in development. His dual experience in live action and animation, in combination with his deep technical expertise, results in a uniquely postmodern storytelling sensibility well suited for many mediums. Plus he smells really good... Filmography/Awards Info: For a complete, up to date Filmography please see: http://www.trnorton.com/filmography.html Festivals & Awards "The Lizard Whomper" Cacophony Societiy Drive-In Festival- San Francisco Grand Prize (chosen by Les Blank) Tourtured Artist Film Festival - Tacoma: Best Animated Film Central Florida Film Festival - Honorable Mention New York Underground Film Festival Chicago Underground Film Festival Hawaii Underground Film Festival Film Arts Festival San Francisco Slamdance Film Festival Cannes International Film Festival "If I Had a Hammer" New York Underground Film Festival Chicago Underground Film Festival Northwest Film & Video Festival Producer / Motion Capture Performer - "Squeezils: The Movie!" for Protozoa Inc. Winner of Best Animation from a CDROM at The World Animation Celebration. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636298/ Visit my Production BLOG for my new short film "The Private Dick" http://trnorton.com/pdplog.html This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. This database is used for commercial as well as informational, non-commercial purposes. It is a historical archive of Microcinema International's activities. Inclusion in this database and archive in no way implies a continuing formal relationship or affiliation with Microcinema International or the Blackchair Label nor an endorsement of its activities by the Contact. Contact details are not displayed in order to protect privacy. If you wish to contact this artist please see their website as listed above or write Microcinema International and we will be happy to forward your e-mail.
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