Georges Schwizgebel is a Swiss animation film director whose paint-on-glass-animated 2004 film L'Hommes sans ombre (The Man With No Shadow) won various awards. Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Paint-on-glass animation is a technique for making animated films by manipulating slow-drying Oil paints on sheets of Glass.
Schwizgebel was born on 28 September 1944 in Berne and lived in Renconvillier in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. The city of Berne or Bern (, Berne, Berna, Romansh: Berna, Bernese German: Bärn) is the Bundesstadt ( Federal From 1960-65 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Décoratifs at Geneva. Geneva (Genève is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French -speaking In 1971 he founded Studio GDS where he produced and directed animated films as well as working in graphic design. The term graphic design can refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines which focus on visual communication and presentation From 1986 to 1995 he worked on retrospectives and exhibitions, among others, in Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Osaka, Paris and New York. Stuttgart (ˈʃtʊtgaɐ̯t is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous In 2002 he was awarded Swiss Film Prize, Best Short Film for “La jeune fille et les nuages”.