Yessian’s Weston Fonger Collaborating with Bill Plympton on “The Flying House” Animation
Sound Designer Weston Fonger of NYC music house Yessian is collaborating with the well-known animator and former cartoonist, Bill Plympton to help resurrect and restore Winsor McCay’s classic animated short film from 1921, The Flying House.
"The Flying House" is being revived with help from Yessian's Weston Fonger.
Fonger, Plympton and his team, and New York-area animation students have been devoting time to completely update The Flying House, an animated film by the legendary and prolific cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay.
The film is currently getting a makeover using the latest renovation techniques along with colorization, added music and sound design. Patricia Clarkson and Matthew Modine are providing voices for the dialogue which had originally been represented using only dialogue balloons.
According to Yessian, McCay may be considered by many to be the “father of animation.” His groundbreaking animated film Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) is said to represent the first ever cartoon character to have a personality. McCay was well known for his newspaper comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905-1914 and 1924-1927).
His animation career was cut short when his employer William Randolph Hearst expressed he felt McCay was neglecting his drawing duties with the newspaper, and as a result The Flying House was his last film.
The distinctive Plympton is well known for his Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face (1987), and his cartoons and illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Penthouse and Vanity Fair. Fonger and Plympton will also be collaborating an original short for a Showtime Network summer campaign.
Fundraising for the project is being generated through Kickstarter.
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