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Meet the dark side of Pixar: Two years in the making, Guy Bar'ely's Pratt Institute CG thesis film was inspired by living in the mean, sometimes unforgiving streets of Brooklyn. "I've always been fascinated by the homeless," he says. "These outcasts of society, seen on the subway and in the streets of New York, seemed like they had very sad stories to tell. But no one was interested in hearing them."
Tired of the lack of disturbing subject matter in popular computer generated animation, Bar'ely says "the time was right to finally break out from these conventions." He calls "Cycle" -- the exquisitely rendered story of a homeless man, his daughter, and the subway -- "a cartoon tragedy."
Bar'ely cites influences such as Dark Days, a documentary about the lives of people living under the city in abandoned subway tunnels, and stylistically, he cites computer game designer Tim Schaffer ("Day of the Tentacle"), Tim Burton, and Pixar (specifically Brad Bird). And for helping him through the difficult times of artistic creation ("had to take Prozac at some point to fight off the anxiety attacks," he admits), he says he couldn't have made the film without the support of his friends and family.
You can see more of Bar'ely's work at www.guybarely.com.
Guy Bar'ely
Drama, Animation
4:27
$3,000
Brooklyn
Homeless Man : Elan Danohe
Guy Bar'ely
Guy Bar'ely
additional texturing : Ritesh Manchanda
