Péter Vácz

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Péter Vácz
BornJuly 2, 1988
Budapest
NationalityHungarian
Alma materSecondary School of Visual Arts Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest
Occupation(s)animator, 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

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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

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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
video icon 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

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  1. ^ a b c d Jennifer Wolfe (25 February 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 13 August 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Rabbit and Deer (Nyuszi és őz)". National Film Institute Hungary. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  3. ^ "KISKÉPZŐ – Secondary School of Visual Arts, Training School for the Hungarian University of Fine Arts | kiskepzo.hu". KISKÉPZŐ honlapja. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  4. ^ a b "VÁCZ PÉTER – animációs rendező/animation director". NeighbourART. 12 August 2016. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  5. ^ "DEAR JOHN – AN INTERVIEW WITH PÉTER VÁCZ & JOSEPH WALLACE". showmetheanimation.com. 23 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  6. ^ "MOME - Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem - New ASF course available". web.mome.hu. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  7. ^ "Animation Sans Frontières". animationsansfrontieres.eu. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  8. ^ "The Animation Workshop". animationworkshop.via.dk. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
  9. ^ Jerry Beck (23 November 2011). ""Stream School" by Péter Vácz". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  10. ^ a b c "Felhasználó - Vácz Péter". osztondij.mma-mmki.hu. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
  11. ^ "2014 ATLFF Jury Award Winners Announced!". Atlantafilmfestival.com. 5 April 2014. Archived from the original on 2 August 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  12. ^ "Caravel Collective". Vimeo. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
  13. ^ a b c "Péter Vácz Delivers a Powerful Tale of Loss & Regret in 'All I'm Saying'". directorsnotes.com. 4 November 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  14. ^ Amid Amidi (4 November 2014). "'All I'm Saying' by Péter Vácz". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  15. ^ Tuffrey, Laurie (31 October 2014). "WATCH: James - All I'm Saying". The Quietus. Archived from the original on 26 May 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  16. ^ "Nominees – Official Selection for the Berlin Music Video Awards 2015". berlinmva.com. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  17. ^ "Illyés Művészeti Szakképző Akadémia". Illyés Művészeti Szakképző Akadémia (in Hungarian). 2018-12-12. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  18. ^ a b c Ben Mitchell (23 August 2016). "Interview: Péter Vácz & Joseph Wallace on the making of JAMES music video "Dear John"". Skwigly. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  19. ^ a b "Péter Vácz Discusses Making the Jump From Animation to Live Action Filmmaking in Playful Short 'Pillowface'". directorsnotes.com. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  20. ^ "Berlin Music Video Awards, il festival dei più bei videoclip al mondo". berlinomagazine.com. 13 May 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  21. ^ Fanni Kaszás (14 May 2018). "Psychedelic Strawberry? Hungarian Director Releases Animated Music Video for Children's Rock Song". Hungary Today. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  22. ^ Stephane Dreyfus (16 October 2018). "6 Promising European Animation Projects That We Saw At Cartoon Forum". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  23. ^ "Spotlight on the 2018 projects". Annecy International Animation Festival. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
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