Bruce Alcock

Bruce Alcock is a Newfoundland multimedia filmmaker and creative director, and founder of animation studios Cuppa Coffee Studio (with Adam Shaheen) and Global Mechanic. Born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, he has directed several animated short films including At The Quinte Hotel (2005), an animated film set to a 1968 CBC Radio recording of Al Purdy reading his poem Quinte Hotel. The film, which combines stop-motion and traditional animation, received the Canadian Film Institute Award for best Canadian animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.[1][2]

Alcock went on to make several short films with the National Film Board of Canada: Vive la rose (2009); Impromptu (2013), nominated for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Animated Short at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards; and the 2014 multimedia short film 54 Hours, co-directed with Paton Francis and written by Michael Crummey, produced for the 100th anniversary of the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster. Alcock has also created handmade experimental animation for on-air promotions for MuchMusic and directed numerous commercials.[1][3]

He also designed the font Soupbone, distributed by FontShop International.[4]

Animation studios

Alcock and Adam Shaheen founded Cuppa Coffee animation in 1991. In 1995, Alcock moved to Chicago to head Tricky Pictures, a co-venture of Cuppa Coffee and U.S. studio Backyard Productions. In 2000, Alcock and his wife, filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming, moved to Vancouver, where he founded Global Mechanic.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Animators Unearthed: Bruce Alcock". Animation World Network. 4 January 2006. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "At the Quinte Hotel". University of Toronto Magazine. Summer 2006. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  3. ↑ Bradbury, Tara (29 March 2014). "Film takes new approach to sealing disaster". The Telegram. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  4. ↑ http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/designer/bruce_alcock/

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