Cordell barker biography

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Cordell Barker, Canadian based animator, is a phenomenal storyteller. His work is dark, funny and relatable. His characters, so full of life you can barely believe they don’t have their own thoughts, passions and intellect (or lack of).

Cordell Barker produced many pieces of work under the National Film Board of Canada.

I shall start off with one of Cordell Barker’s recent pieces and work my way back

This piece, If I Was God has so much going on within. A mixture of stop motion, 2D drawn and After Effects marry together seamlessly giving an insight into a main character’s mind. After the incident happens we are transported into this young boy’s boundless imagination made all the more fantastic by the fact that this piece is autobiographical from Barkers own childhood memories.
I was lucky enough to see this on the big screen at Montreal Stop Motion Festival a couple of years ago.
This week I’ve been showing my first years as an example of multimedia animation.

Cordell Barker also enjoyed success earlier in his career, receiving Best Animated Film for


CANADA 150 - CORDELL BARKER
Celebrating Independent Animation in Canada
July 8 - December 9, 2017

RESERVATIONS OPEN FOR THE REST OF THE SERIES

In celebration of Canada’s 150th Anniversary, the Spark CG Society is hosting a Special Series of monthly talks celebrating Independent Animation in Canada. Please join us as we celebrate Canadian animation.





Saturday - October 14, 1:30 PM
PRESENTATION
ANIMATION HEARTLAND: A FIELD OF REAMS
with Marv Newland · moderated by Cordell Barker

VENUE:
Vancouver Film School
420 Homer St (@ West Hastings St)
Vancouver, Canada

As an independent animation filmmaker, who focuses on pacing, action and narrative, Cordell Barker is one of Canada’s brightest lights. With a distinguished career that has garnered two Oscar nominations and almost 50 awards from every major film and animation festival in the world, Cordell Barker has brought worldwide acclaim and attention, not only to Canada, but to its animation heartland, Winnipeg.

It is our greatest pleasure to have Cordell Barker present and discuss his multi award-winnin

Cordell Barker

Canadian animator

Cordell Barker

Born

Cordell Barker


1956 (age 68–69)

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Occupations
  • Animator
  • director
  • screenwriter
Years active1987–present

Cordell Barker (born 1956) is a Canadiananimator, director and screenwriter based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He began animating in his late teens after taking on an apprenticeship at Kenn Perkins Animation. A two-time Academy Award nominee, Barker is an animation filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).[1]

National Film Board of Canada

Earlier in his career, Barker did animation work on fellow Winnipeg animator Brad Caslor's NFB short, Get a Job.[2] He then went on to direct his own NFB animated shorts, at the NFB's Winnipeg studio. His best known NFB shorts are The Cat Came Back (1988)[3] and Strange Invaders (2002),[4] both of which received Oscar nominations.[5]

He completed his third film for the NFB, Runaway, in 2009.[6][7]Runaway was named

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