Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis Francis Bacon

Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis are a Canadian animation duo. They were both originaly from Alberta. They met at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver where they studied film, video and animation. They each went on to create their own works with the National Film Board of Canada (Strings and The Reluctant Deckhand) before co-directing When the Day Breaks which received over 30 international awards.

When the day breaks Was made using a new animation technique that they designed; They shot real life scenes of people and objects; They then printed stills from these scenes on a video printer attached to a VCR as three by four inch images that they enlarged slightly. They then would take these stills and draw on them. This technique was designed to save time, however, the film took about four years to complete

Wild Life Wild Life, their latest short with the NFB has won several prizes and in 2012 was nominated for an Academy Award. In addition to writing and directing the film, Forbis and Tilby drew and painted every animation frame in guache, and wrote the lyrics for the film's final song. They were only able to work on Wild Life part-time, due to commercial obligations, and the film is reported to have taken them from six to over seven years, from concept to completion.

Tilby and Forbis have also collaborated on assorted commissioned projects and directed numerous TV commercials. Interview, their acclaimed spot for United Airlines, was nominated for an Emmy® in 2004.

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Francis Bacon In 1944 he painted “Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion” which was his first painting to attract public attention. Throughout his life he was interested in the human condition and his work is mostly about that. In 1971 his lover, George Dyer, suicided and Bacon started painting more introspective, preoccupied with the passage of time, art. Francis Bacon, born in 1909, was an Irish-born Brittish figurative painter known for his bold, emotionally charged paintings. His work features human or animal shapes, painted in an aggressive abstract form.

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, 1944 Three Studies for a crucifixion, 1962 Triptych, 1976

Self-portrait, 1976 Portrait Self-portrait

Study after velázquez's portrait of pope innocent x, 1953 Figure with meat, 1954 Three Studies of Lucian Freud, 1969

Triptych, 1973 Self-portrait triptych, 1986

Similarities We don't see many similarities between them. The only thing we can consider similar is the fact that Francis Bacon is obcessed with death, and that in the two movies made by the duo, Tibly/Forbis, one of the characters dies.