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Clip description
You can view the animated short Redback here in its entirety. A man, then a boy, try to kill a redback spider. But hard as they try, the redback lives on and has its revenge.
Curator’s notes
Made in 1995, just before the onset of digital animation, Robert Stephenson employs the traditional cell animation technique. He draws his characters with just a pencil, directly onto the ‘frosted’, transparent acetate cells, with coloured backgrounds underneath. This gives the film its vibrant, immediate look, that special ‘touched by human hand’ appeal unachievable as yet with CGI.
