Ryan (2004)

Director:

Chris Landreth

Genre:

Documentary | Animation | Short | Biography | Drama | Fantasy

Plot:

The movie talks about the life of Ryan Larkin, a gifted Canadian animator of the late '60s and the early '70s.

Plot Keywords:

Animator | 1960s | Restroom | 1970s | Producer

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 20 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Ryan Larkin	...	Interview Voice (voice)
Chris Landreth	...	Interview Voice (voice)
Felicity Fanjoy	...	Interview Voice (voice)
Derek Lamb	...	Interview Voice (voice)

Directed by
Chris Landreth

Produced by
Jed DeCory	....	executive producer
Jeremy Edwardes	....	associate producer
Steven Hoban	....	producer
Karyn Nolan	....	executive producer
Marcy Page	....	producer
Noah Segal	....	executive producer
Mark Smith	....	producer
David Verrall	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Fergus Marsh
Michael White

Film Editing by
Alan Code

Production Management
Larry Deflorio	....	executive in charge of production: Seneca College (as Larry DeFlorio)
Paula Devonshire	....	post-production supervisor

Art Department
Paul Cieniuch	....	set design
Brian Lemay	....	storyboard artist
Ian MacLeod	....	set design
Helen Zotalis	....	set designer (as Helen Zotalis van Emmerik)

Sound Department
Ray Cook	....	optical soundtrack
Eliot Crackower	....	assistant re-recording mixer
Erik Culp	....	foley recordist
Roderick Deogrades	....	sound effects editor (as Rod Deogrades)
Robert Di Gioia	....	adr recordist (as Robert DiGioria)
John Elliot	....	foley assistant (as John Elliott)
Steve Hammond	....	foley artist
Martin Gwynn Jones	....	adr editor
Martin Gwynn Jones	....	dialogue editor
Garrett Kerr	....	sound effects editor
David McCallum	....	sound supervisor
David Rose	....	sound effects editor
Lou Solakofski	....	re-recording mixer
Jane Tattersall	....	sound effects editor
David Yonson	....	adr mixer

Visual Effects by
Belma Abdicevic	....	compositing
Belma Abdicevic	....	lighting/rendering
David Baas	....	computer graphics producer
Dave Bachelor	....	character and set texturing
Dave Bachelor	....	render assistant
Heather Chan	....	assistant: Seneca
Ted Charlton	....	character modeller
Yiqun Chen	....	additional effects animation
Paul Cieniuch	....	modeling and texturing
Patrick Coleman	....	production programmer
William Dwelly	....	additional effects animation (as Bill Dwelly)
William Dwelly	....	character setup (as Bill Dwelly)
George Elkoura	....	production programmer
Heather Gagnier-Souliere	....	assistant: Seneca (as Heather Gagnier)
Martin Hesselink	....	pre-visualization
Daniel Hornick	....	additional texturing
Joseph Kim	....	character modeller
Rick Kogucki	....	character setup
Martin Kumor	....	programmer
Martin Kumor	....	technical administrator
Steven Lin	....	assistant systems administrator
Ian MacLeod	....	additional lighting
Ian MacLeod	....	modeling and texturing
Alex Murtaza	....	assistant: Seneca (as Ali Murtaza)
Fred Ni	....	character setup
Joe Raasch	....	additional compositing
Simon Sherr	....	character setup
Karan Singh	....	director: software research and development
Gavin Soares	....	pre-visualization
Glenn Tsang	....	production programmer
Derek Verdonck	....	pre-visualization
Helen Zotalis	....	additional lighting (as Helen Zotalis van Emmerik)
Helen Zotalis	....	modeling and texturing (as Helen Zotalis van Emmerik)

Animation Department
Robb Denovan	....	animator
Wadi Ejiwunmi	....	animator: additional animation
Thomas Hendry	....	additional character design
Terry Kalinich	....	animator
Terry Kalinich	....	animator: additional animation
Sebastian Kapijimpanga	....	animator
Paul Kohut	....	animator
Chris Landreth	....	character design
Alison Reiko Loader	....	animator: additional animation
Fred Ni	....	additional character design
Jeff Panko	....	animator

Editorial Department
Michael Morrow	....	assistant editor
Melanie Moulton	....	post scheduling

Music Department
Brian Barlow	....	musician: percussion
Jeremy Edwardes	....	musician: bass clarinet
Ormond Jobin	....	music engineer
Hugh Marsh	....	musician: violin
Roberto Occhipinti	....	musician: double bass
Don Rooke	....	musician: guitars

Other crew
Rob Aitchison	....	pre-production consultant
Brian Borts	....	production accountant
Winston Emano	....	publicist
R. Todd Ivey	....	slates (as Todd Ivey)
R. Todd Ivey	....	titles (as Todd Ivey)
Kimberly Killam	....	production accountant (as Kim Killam)
David Magdael	....	publicist
David Steinberg	....	legal
Steven Wallace	....	publicist
Anne Stulz	....	publicist (uncredited)

Thanks
Shawn Dunn	....	special thank you
Jade LaMarche	....	special thank you
Ryan Larkin	....	special thank you
Rick Miner	....	special thank you
Jodi A. Tario	....	special thank you (as Jody Terio)
Patrice Theroux	....	special thank you

Production Companies

• Canada Council for the Arts (produced with the participation of) (as The Canadian Council For The Arts)
• Copperheart Entertainment (produced by) (as Copper Heart Entertainment)
• National Film Board of Canada (NFB) (in co-production with) (as The National Film Board Of Canada)

Distributors

• Encore Avenue (2009) (Canada) (TV)

Other Companies

• Alias/Wavefront Technologies  software: modelling, animation and rendering (as Alias)
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)  provided courtesy of: "CBC audio clip"
• Casablanca Sound Services  sound mixing services (as Casablanca)
• Copacabana, The  special thank you
• Coptor Productions Inc.  picture editing services
• Discreet  software: compositing
• Film Effects  digital film transfer
• Hewlett Packard  additional rendering hardware
• Intel  rendering hardware
• National Film Board of Canada (NFB)  provided courtesy of: "Walking" and "Street Musique" directed by Ryan Larkin
• Nelvana  special thank you
• Old Brewery Mission, The  special thank you
• Reaction Studios  music recorded at
• Schwartz's Restaurant  special thank you
• Seneca College  animation created at (as Seneca College - Animation Arts Centre)
• Syflex  software: 3D cloth simulation
• Tattersall Sound  sound design services (as Tattersall Sound & Picture)
• The City of Montreal  special thank you
• University of Toronto  special thank you (as Dynamic Graphics Project - University of Toronto)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

14 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English | French

Colour:

Black and White | Colour

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Hong Kong:IIA | USA:TV-PG | Argentina:Unrated

Company:

Canada Council for the Arts

Quotes:

[first lines]
Chris:Hi, my name is Chris and I'm here to explain some things.

Movie Connections:

References The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (1970) (TV)

A well deserved Oscar

This animated short uses its animation style to express human situations that would be immediately accessible, even if you didn't know English. The excerpts of Ryan Larkin's work "Walking" (titled in the original French as "En Marchant" 1969) give you a glimpse of the genius of this man. Chris' street characters near the end are hauntingly familiar. Is that a fat Michael Richards I see? Well done, Chris, et al. I first saw this on CBC's ZED and it will likely get more play there, probably on their request program on "Feedback Friday" nights. Zed classifies this film as both Experimental and Educational genres. You can see an overview on their web site.