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Tod Polson. The Prodigal- concept sketches. Our animated short The Prodigal is finishing its festival run and can be viewed at: https://37stories.com / We’ve also translated the film into over 40 languages, and are trying to put it into more. https://vimeo.com/37stories.
Tod Polson is known for Escape of the Gingerbread Man!!! (2011), Al Tudi Tuhak and The Book of Life (2014).
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Tod Polson received both his BFA and MFA from The California Institute of the Arts (Cal/Arts) under a scholarship from the Walt Disney Co. His student film, Al Tudi Tuhak, won many awards including the Student Oscar. Between degrees, Tod apprenticed under the Oscar-winning team of Chuck Jones, and Maurice Noble.
The film has been animated by a global team of 70+ world-class artists from more than 70 countries. Tod Polson, former creative director at Cartoon Saloon, has led the team over five years of production. Coptic and other iconographers have been influential in the development of the film's aesthetic, which takes its cues from the Neo-Coptic style.
Oct 21, 2013 · Tod Polson was a protege of Noble’s who has finally realized his generous teacher’s dream of putting all of Noble’s notes and theories on animation design in book form.
- Thad Komorowski
Sep 20, 2024 · The 21: Directed by Tod Polson. With Shafik Bastawrous, Meena George, Sheriff Medhat. A short film honoring the 21 Coptic men martyred by ISIS in Libya in 2015, produced in the style of Coptic iconography by a global team of more than 70 artists from more than 24 countries.
Tod Polson received both his BFA and MFA from The California Institute of the Arts (Cal/Arts) under scholarship from the Walt Disney Co. under the mentorship of animation great Jules Engel. His student film, Al Tudi Tuhak, won many awards including the Student Oscar.
