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Like his colleague Tory Miles, animator Peter Dydo created art incessantly throughout his life. And, like Miles, he worked on the Academy Award-winning The Shape of Water<\/i>.<\/p>\nLike his colleague Tory Miles, animator Peter Dydo created art incessantly throughout his life. And, like Miles, he worked on the Academy Award-winning The Shape of Water<\/i>.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been drawing and painting since I can remember,\u201d says Dydo, an animator with Mr. X in Toronto. He has also worked on The Silence<\/i>, Shazam!<\/i> and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter<\/i>. He\u2019s been in the business since 2005.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrowing up, I was always encouraged to keep doing art,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t pay attention to the harsh realities of ending up a starving artist. Instead, I happily stayed on a path that led me to fine arts and animation.\u201d<\/p>\n
A lifelong fan of movies, Dydo says his high school art teacher, also a U of G grad, recommended that he enrol in the University\u2019s fine arts program. Dydo studied drawing, painting, sculpture and art history.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did get a glimpse of what life would be like as a starving artist,\u201d he says. \u201cFortunately, computer animation became more prominent. It was an exciting, somewhat new field.\u201d<\/p>\n
He took further training at St. Clair College in southwestern Ontario, where he immersed himself in traditional hand-drawn animation and computer animation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had the advantage of having fine arts training from U of G, so I could focus more on the art of animation itself. That fine arts foundation was a boon for my work and helped set me apart from the pack, even to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Successful animation has a magic to it, he says. Manipulating pixels can elicit an emotional response in the viewer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis type of work allows you to create life where there wasn\u2019t life previously. It basically allows one to play God with low stakes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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