Ryan By Chris Landreth

Ryan is a short 13 minute film based around the life story of animator Ryan who's short films are famous in the world of animation but he decided to leave the animation firm he was with and live a life of begging on the streets. This short film uses recorded audio directly from Ryan and Chris talking about his life and from various people he interviewed.




 I really liked the visual style Chris used to depict the characters, it was a very interesting way of showing how fragile the characters are without resorting to dialogue. The animation is very well done and there is no motion capture used in the film at all which makes the animation even more impressive.

Throughout the film you can see that Chris has various inspirations, perticularly the surrealist movement with references to Dahli and René Magritte (the son of man can be seen directly in the film towards the end).