{"id":32136,"date":"2017-10-13T12:25:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T12:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/?p=32136"},"modified":"2017-10-13T12:28:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T12:28:34","slug":"intimate-animation-tabook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/intimate-animation-tabook\/","title":{"rendered":"Intimate Animation: Dario van Vree (\u2018Tabook\u2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/346704707-skwigly-intimate-animation-2-05-13102017-dario-van-vree.mp3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32137 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IA2-5_600-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>Continuing the second season of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/?s=intimate+animation\">Intimate Animation<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the Skwigly podcast in which we explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality \u2013 we welcome Netherlands-based director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dariovanvree.nl\/\">Dario van Vree<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/studiopupil.com\/\">Studio Pupil<\/a>, whose film <a href=\"http:\/\/studiopupil.com\/portfolio-item\/tabook\/\"><em>Tabook<\/em><\/a> was released online this week to coincidence with Face Your Fears Day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tabook | animated short film\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/237533910?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"first\">While browsing the bookstore 19-year-old Gwen is unexpectedly drawn to a volume of kinky erotica, earning her disapproving glares from the other customers. Will Gwen follow her deepest desires or will she let her embarrassment restrain her?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As well as his creative work at Studio Pupil, Dario was one of the original founders of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/tag\/klik-amsterdam-animation-festival\/\">KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival<\/a> and teaches animation at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Using TVPaint to combine digital 2D character animation with hand-crafted sets and a touch of CG, his film is a warmhearted tale of overcoming one&#8217;s inhibitions and moving past fears of what others may think of our natural impulses.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oTC7wQMHHEA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Also discussed in this episode: Animation sexploits at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofsex.com\/museum\/about\/visit\/\">New York Museum of Sex<\/a> (including work by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollynor.com\/\">Polly Nor<\/a>, Michael Sullivan and the 1929 animated &#8216;stag&#8217; film <em>Buried Treasure<\/em>) and the surprisingly on-point new adult animated Netflix sitcom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/gb\/title\/80117038\"><em>Big Mouth<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stream below or <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/346704707-skwigly-intimate-animation-2-05-13102017-dario-van-vree.mp3\">direct download<\/a>:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/346704707&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Visit Studio Pupil at <a href=\"http:\/\/studiopupil.com\/\">studiopupil.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the second season of\u00a0Intimate Animation\u00a0\u2013 the Skwigly podcast in which we explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality \u2013 we welcome Netherlands-based director Dario van Vree of Studio Pupil, whose film Tabook was released online this week to coincidence with Face Your Fears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":32138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[247,755],"tags":[5242,5239,5240,5238,5243,5241,4812],"class_list":["post-32136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-interviews","tag-andy-baker","tag-big-mouth","tag-buried-treasure","tag-dario-van-vree","tag-michael-sullivan","tag-polly-nor","tag-tabook"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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