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| Veteran Animator's Comedy Short Screening Now Through October
August 10, 2007 :: No. 17 A hapless motorist stuck at a tollbooth is the subject of Chuck Grieb’s animated comedy short “Exact Change Only,” screening this month and in the fall at film festivals around the country, including the Hermosa Shorts Film Festival, Jersey Shore Film Festival and Rhode Island International Film Festival. Written, produced and directed by Grieb, assistant professor of art at Cal State Fullerton, “Exact Change” follows the misfortunes of mild-mannered, everyman Lyle, who finds himself blocked at the toll barrier without change and at the mercy of increasingly impatient commuters. Contributing to the project were Cal State Fullerton alumna Rebecca Norris (B.F.A. art ’03), who composed and performed the film’s score, and Grieb’s faculty colleague Cliff G. Cramp, associate professor of art, who painted the backgrounds. “Exact Change Only” also will be showing at the Temecula Valley International Film Festival in September and Chicago International Children’s Film Festival in October. Grieb is an animation veteran whose career credits include working as an animator, storyboard artist, director, character designer and Maya artist/animator for such studios as Walt Disney TV Animation, Nickelodeon Studios, Film Roman, Cornerstone Animation and Flashbang Studios. A previous short, “Roland’s Trouble,” about a knight who encounters an invisible obstacle, screened at nearly 30 film festivals around the country and in England and Hungary. Grieb’s lifelong love for film and animation began when, at the age of 4, he asked his father how the skeletons in Ray Harryhausen’s “Jason and the Argonauts” “came alive” — to which the elder Grieb answered: “They got skinny actors.” This led to a quest for the truth, and by the time he was 7 years old, Grieb was working on his first stop-motion animation model. This fall, Grieb will be teaching animation, 3-D computer animation and special studies animation classes. The Eagle Rock resident joined the Cal State Fullerton faculty in 2002.
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