Péter Vácz

Péter Vácz
Born (1988-07-02) July 2, 1988
Budapest
Alma materSecondary School of Visual Arts Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest
OccupationsAnimator, film director
AwardsAnnecy International Animation Film Festival (Junior Jury Award)

Nashville Film Festival ( Best Animated Short)

Atlanta Film Festival (Best Animated Short)
Websitewww.petervacz.com

Péter Vácz (Budapest, July 2, 1988) is a multi-award-winning Hungarian animator and film director based in Budapest.[1][2] He uses 2D and 3D stop-motion animation techniques to produce short films, including music videos.

Early years, studies

Péter Vácz was born in Budapest, Hungary, to a glass designer father, in whose workshop he started tinkering as a child. At the age of nine he started studying music and from 2003 he went to the 'Kisképző' Secondary School of Visual Arts,[3] where he graduated in graphic design.[4] Vácz then continued his studies at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, where he took a puppet animation course.[1][5]

During his university years, in 2010, he completed the Animations Sans Frontieres (ASF) international animation course,[6] and in 2011, within the Erasmus Programme, he also finished the professional 3D animation training course at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark.[7][8]

Vácz graduated with BA and MA in animation, his diploma films, the first in 2010 the Patakiskola (Streamschool) and Nyuszi és Őz (Rabbit and Deer) in 2012. These films have brought him to the forefront of international attention.[1][9] The latter is a 16-minute film that uses a mixture of 2D and 3D animation and garnered 125 awards at international festivals,[10] including the Junior Jury Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival[1] and Best Animated Short at the Nashville Film Festival and Atlanta Film Festival.[2][11]

Career

Vácz co-founded the international film collective Caravel Collective,[12] with which he made experimental films in the South of France for a year from summer 2013.[10]

In 2014, Vácz was commissioned by Picasso Pictures, who had noted his Streamschool film, to create a music video for the song "All I'm Saying" by British band James.[13][14] The project had a three-week deadline.[13] The resulting stop-motion puppet video premiered on The Quietus, which praised Vácz's "excellent, darkly uplifting handiwork",[15] and garnered a Best Animation nomination for the 2015 Berlin Music Video Awards.[13][16]

After the experimental period in France, Vácz spent a year in Berlin as a freelancer, and moved back to Budapest in 2015. In addition to his professional and artistic work, he started teaching animation practice and theory at his alma mater, the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.[10] After several years of teaching, in 2019 he became the artistic director of the Illyés Művészeti Szakképző Akadémia.[17][4]

External videos
The Making of: James – Dear John

In 2016, Vácz collaborated with Joseph Wallace on another James music video, for the track "Dear John".[18] Vácz and Wallace had met as students on the Animation Sans Frontières (ASF) animation course and have collaborated on a number of projects over the years,[18] as well as teaching stop-motion animation together.[19] "Dear John" used 3D animation with 2D flashback sequences.[18] It, too, was nominated for the Berlin Music Video Awards.[20]

More recent projects by Vácz include a psychedelic music video for Hungarian kids' band Szagos Hörigekkók,[21] the live-action short film Pillowface – chronicling a man's playful attempts to combat hotel-room loneliness[19] – and the semi-autobiographical animation project Noah's Tree.[22][23]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Jennifer Wolfe (February 25, 2015). "'Rabbit and Deer' Short Now Online – Short film from Berlin-based Péter Vácz wins 120 awards, employs a mixture of 2D and 3D animation". Animation World Network. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Rabbit and Deer (Nyuszi és őz)". National Film Institute Hungary. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  3. ^ "KISKÉPZŐ – Secondary School of Visual Arts, Training School for the Hungarian University of Fine Arts | kiskepzo.hu". KISKÉPZŐ honlapja. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  4. ^ a b "VÁCZ PÉTER – animációs rendező/animation director". NeighbourART. August 12, 2016. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  5. ^ "DEAR JOHN – AN INTERVIEW WITH PÉTER VÁCZ & JOSEPH WALLACE". showmetheanimation.com. August 23, 2016. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  6. ^ "MOME – Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem – New ASF course available". web.mome.hu. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  7. ^ "Animation Sans Frontières". animationsansfrontieres.eu. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  8. ^ "The Animation Workshop". animationworkshop.via.dk. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  9. ^ Jerry Beck (November 23, 2011). ""Stream School" by Péter Vácz". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  10. ^ a b c "Felhasználó – Vácz Péter". osztondij.mma-mmki.hu. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  11. ^ "2014 ATLFF Jury Award Winners Announced!". Atlantafilmfestival.com. April 5, 2014. Archived from the original on August 2, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  12. ^ "Caravel Collective". Vimeo. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  13. ^ a b c "Péter Vácz Delivers a Powerful Tale of Loss & Regret in 'All I'm Saying'". directorsnotes.com. November 4, 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  14. ^ Amid Amidi (November 4, 2014). "'All I'm Saying' by Péter Vácz". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  15. ^ Tuffrey, Laurie (October 31, 2014). "WATCH: James – All I'm Saying". The Quietus. Archived from the original on May 26, 2020. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  16. ^ "Nominees – Official Selection for the Berlin Music Video Awards 2015". berlinmva.com. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  17. ^ "Illyés Művészeti Szakképző Akadémia". Illyés Művészeti Szakképző Akadémia (in Hungarian). December 12, 2018. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  18. ^ a b c Ben Mitchell (August 23, 2016). "Interview: Péter Vácz & Joseph Wallace on the making of JAMES music video "Dear John"". Skwigly. Retrieved August 12, 2020.
  19. ^ a b "Péter Vácz Discusses Making the Jump From Animation to Live Action Filmmaking in Playful Short 'Pillowface'". directorsnotes.com. October 23, 2018. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  20. ^ "Berlin Music Video Awards, il festival dei più bei videoclip al mondo". berlinomagazine.com. May 13, 2017. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  21. ^ Fanni Kaszás (May 14, 2018). "Psychedelic Strawberry? Hungarian Director Releases Animated Music Video for Children's Rock Song". Hungary Today. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  22. ^ Stephane Dreyfus (October 16, 2018). "6 Promising European Animation Projects That We Saw At Cartoon Forum". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  23. ^ "Spotlight on the 2018 projects". Annecy International Animation Festival. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
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