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A Hit at the Oscars

On 27 February was the awards ceremony the Academy, version eighty-three. My favorite moment of the night was when they announced the prize for best animated short film, "The Lost Thing" by Australian artist Shaun Tan

"The Lost Thing" is a simple story. A young man is a day at the beach one thing missing. A huge thing, like a giant red coffee maker, mechanisms and little doors, with tentacles and a pair of arms like praying mantis, with bells on the ends. However, no one else seems aware of his existence. Despite its strange appearance, the thing lost is the personality of a puppy, playful and curious, and wins the sympathy of the boy, who is set to the task of finding their place in the world. Well, you can see it in full here (while not withdrawn by copyright):


Short Film "The Lost Thing", 2010.



is a story with a few weird and wonderful creatures living in the interstices of a city grid gray and full of smoke bouncing fireplaces, huge buildings with no windows and rusted pipes everywhere. It is an extremely bureaucratic world where everything has a place (except for lost things).

If the full video is no longer available, here you can see the trailer .





Shaun Tan brings to the screen his book, illustrated with amazing fidelity. Although it uses CGI and 3D modeling, all textures are originally meticulously drawn in pencil, painted by him in oil or acrylic, or collage of graphics produced by machines and technical tables, which achieves a dark futuristic dystopian city to Style 1984, which highlight by contrast the vivid colors of the abnormal things lost. So, Shaun Tan has achieved what Pepe Garcia Oliva described in Literary Corner as characters Bosch spaces concebidos por Edward Tufte  o alguna pintura de Hopper . A mi parecer hay mucho más de Hopper que de Tufte en esos espacios.

Shaun Tan fue director, escritor, diseñador y artista en este proyecto que contó con un equipo de entusiastas colaboradores, como Andrew Ruhemann, codirector; Tim Minchin, locutor; Tom Bryant y Leo Baker, animadores; y Michael Yezerski, compositor. Después de casi diez años de trabajo, "La Cosa Perdida" fue terminada en abril de 2010 y se estrenó en el Annecy Film Festival in France, in June the same year. Here you can see a five-minute documentary about the production :



Besides Oscar, "The Lost Thing" has been awarded at various festivals, such as the ANIMACOR 2010 in Spain, the Austin Film Festival and Chicago International Children's Film Festival in the United States. A total of about twenty awards and counting.

met Shaun Tan's work a couple of years ago in Medellín Book Festival and it was all thanks to the whim of Paula A friend of mine. She is a graphic designer, of which publish books and magazines, and has a passion for books. On this occasion, the book was outdated literally a book without words. Well, the title was only in words, "Immigrants", but the whole story was told exclusively with images. The original title is "The Arrival" (arrival), because about a parent who only venture across the sea to an unknown country, where language, customs and even the most everyday are foreign .

I must thank not only Paul, but John, who told me the whim of Paula and encouraged me to get a copy, and then I got in Bogotá a copy of the book "The Lost Thing."

The book was created while Tan was doing the animation of "The Lost Thing." Your interactions with storyboard artists and publishers of the film industry was crucial to the narrative in images it achieves in "Immigrants." In addition to his own experiences in traveling around the world and history of their parents, Chinese immigrants in southern Australia, several images inspired him: The New York, 1900, photographs of Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, city street scenes European, Asian or Middle Eastern, animals, plants, apartment interiors, photos of people in their daily activities.

Shaun Tan is an excellent illustrator, as can be seen on every page of "immigrants", the originals were made in pencil on paper. "Immigrants" was one of the ; ten best illustrated books of 2007, according to The New York Times. He was also nominated for a Hugo Award in 2008 for Best Related Book, like its author, for Best Professional Artist.

For its part, can be get the DVD with the short film "The Lost Thing" directory Madman Entertainment, Passion Pictures Australia. Extras include deleted scenes, sketches and pre-production art, reviews and interviews with the creators. The gift package comes with a booklet called "Abnormality Miscellaneous What is That?" , with original sketches of the creatures in the film.