# Transfigured (Jack Shadbolt's paintings animated) - 35mm to VHS

\[See supplementary information in the Download Options: GIFs, JPEGs, TIFFs, and PDFs.\] “...A mind-dazzling, sight-and-sound roller-coaster ride that leaves viewers gasping with amazement.” – Paula Gustafson, Artichoke magazine This 35-mm film brings the viewer into the world of Jack Shadbolt, the innovative and influential Canadian painter. Filmmaker Stephen X. Arthur animates Shadbolt’s paintings, creating an entirely new work of art on film. Pushing the limits of 2D animation on a PC in 1996, Arthur reconstructs the missing backgrounds behind the cut-out foreground objects of Shadbolt’s paintings. By using a cause-and-effect sequence of actions and by visually matching the moving forms from one painting to the next, Arthur creates a contiguous environment, a surreal world made from Shadbolt’s paintings. The events are choreographed in movement phrases, with synchronized sound effects, to help the viewer follow the fast flow of unusual transformations. This digital animation of scanned images was recorded to 35mm film by placing the computer monitor under the NFB's Oxberry animation camera and manually shooting it frame by frame. The making of Transfigured is featured in The Animation Bible by Maureen Furniss, 2008. The film premiered in the Official Competition of the Hiroshima '98 International Animation Festival in Japan (director in attendance), followed by the Official Competition of the 1998 World Film Festival in Montreal and the Ottawa '98 International Animation…

- Kind: Cartoon
- Year: 1998
- By: Stephen X. Arthur
- Genres: Animation, Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/transfigured-experimental-animation-stephen-arthur)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/transfigured-experimental-animation-stephen-arthur?play=1)