Fans of small animated stories with a sense definitely need to familiarize themselves with the work of Bill Plimpton. The animator is known worldwide for his short films. Bill likes to ridicule human vices in a very unusual way, which attracts so much attention to his work.
Biography
Bill Plympton was born in Portland, Oregon. There, the future animator graduated from Portland State University. With studies, the guy combined membership in a cinematic society, and also worked on the release of the yearbook.
In 1968, Bill Plympton moved to New York and entered the School of Visual Arts. In 2018, he turns 72 years old. However, the animator himself looks much younger. Everyone who has ever seen Bill cannot give him more than 50 years. Fans are sure that the secret of the youth of the animator is a love of fun. Plympton himself once admitted to reporters that he believes that people can laugh at everything, at anything, so his work is just that - with a lot of jokes. Bill also said that the ability to laugh and have fun is the most underrated quality of a person, and if someone takes the world too seriously, this often leads to bad consequences.
Carier start
Bill Plympton's career as an animator began with the publication of illustrations and paintings in popular magazines. Among them are the New York Times, Vogue, and Rolling Stone.
The style of Bill's drawings is very memorable. In addition, the animator’s work itself is quite impressive. Absolutely all Bill Plympton's films are filled with humor. He jokes on absolutely all possible topics.
A lot of controversy was gathered around Beale's animated film called Hitler's Tomfoolery. The animator himself likes to joke on political topics, but this project has caused mixed criticism. Even some fans of Plympton’s work believe that this work should not have been published. You can not laugh at the great tragedy that happened to humanity because of Hitler. Bill himself says that he just wanted to make the audience laugh, and he did not specifically touch on any gloomy aspects of Nazism.
In addition to cartoons and graphic novels, Bill also creates commercials and music videos.
Animator Short
To date, the animator has released more than seventy short films. Bill Plympton does not stop there and continues to create. His most popular projects are stories about a dog, namely Guard Dog, Guide Dog, Hot Dog and Horn Dog. Bill himself believes that it is to these works that he owes his success and popularity. Some of them were released with the assistance of other directors. Typically, Bill first releases an animated story as a comic book, and then makes a cartoon. Thus he collects the budget of his short films.
"I married a strange person"
There is an animated story in Bill Plympton's filmography called "I Married a Strange Person." The project has become one of Bill's most famous works worldwide.
At the center of the story is a guy named Grant. It is no different from ordinary Americans. Evenings he spends with his wife at the TV. Once his life changes dramatically. While watching that television plate, two birds fall. Somehow, this triggered the release of energy that falls on Grant. Because of this, a small tumor forms on the back of the guy’s head, which gives the hero superpower.
Grant gets the opportunity to realize any desire with the power of thought. Literally from the air he does some things. Despite the fact that such a force can be useful to humanity, Grant manages the ability rather strange. For the most part, the guy just makes his neighbors and his wife angry. An illustration of one of Grant's antics is presented below.
Soon, many will learn about Grant. He is often shown on TV, the guy got rich. In addition to ordinary people, the authorities are now interested in the hero. The military wants to use Grant as a weapon to seize power over the media sphere around the world.
"Mutants from space", or "Mutants-aliens"
In 2010, Bill Plympton decided to please his fans with another full-length cartoon. This time, the animator fantasizes about life on other planets.
The animated film tells about a young astronaut named Earl Jenson. The hero receives a mission to go into space in order to explore other planets and try to find life on them. The guy is delighted with his mission and so far does not even imagine what all this can turn out for him. His insidious foe named Frubaru secretly from everyone launches a mechanism on the spaceship, which in the future should prevent Earle from returning to Earth.
When Jenson himself finds out about this, it is too late, he can no longer return home. Then the guy decides to take revenge on all his offenders. He collects a huge army of aliens, with whom he plans to attack his home planet.
"Hair on end"
Among the projects of Bill Plympton is the cartoon "Hair on end". The tape tells how sometimes it is difficult to study at school. The action of the animated picture takes place in the 50s.
At the center of the story is a guy named Recession. He is moving to a new school. The hero himself is very reserved, a little strange, which is why in the new class he is quickly nicknamed Tormoz.
In the very first days of study, the guy is very unlucky. He accidentally touches someone else's car in the parking lot. It soon turns out that the owner of the car is a bully from the Recession class named Rod. He does not want to hear any explanations and literally goes crazy with anger. So the not too funny adventures of the protagonist begin. Now the guy can’t think of anything except how to get out of such a binding. Along the way, Recession only makes the main enemy more angry.
"Idiots and Angels"
Bill Plympton's animated film "Idiots and Angels" is considered his darkest work. The tape tells about a man leading not the best lifestyle. He is very cruel, cynical, thinks only of himself, drinks a lot. Something incredible is happening to the guy. It would seem that anything can happen to him, but not that. One morning, a guy discovers real wings behind him.
At first, a man tries by all means to get rid of such a “gift of fate”, but the wings appear again and again. Nothing remains for a hero except to learn how to live with his own peculiarity.