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Heavy Metal movie-Den with silhouette painting

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Item

Date:

[ca.1981].

Reference:

R429, Volume number: 48

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4517204

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John Bell collection

Heavy Metal movie-Den with silhouette painting
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Date(s):

[ca.1981].

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 painting: orange paint and pencil; 33.0 x 42.0.
Support 33.000 x 42.000 cm

Language of material:

English

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Item consists of 1 painting of a bald, muscular man. The details of the man, such as his muscles and facial expression, have been drawn on with pencil.

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Creator: Corben, Richard

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Based on the popular underground magazine, the Heavy Metal movie was made up of five segments based on five different stories that had been printed in the magazine. The movie was produced and made in Toronto, Ontario. Because it was created in Canada, many actors from the TV comedy Second City leant their voices to the production.

This item is based on the Den sequence of the movie, regarded by film critics as the best sequence in the film. In it, an underweight nerd is pulled into a universe where he is a buff, well-endowed male known as Den who saves a young maiden from an evil cult. The character was voiced by famous actor John Candy with heavy involvement from the characters original creator, Richard Corben. Corben wrote both the story and supplied original artwork for the Den sequence which Corben felt was very satisfactory upon completion. Corben even looked over every piece of animation for the sequence to be sure that he was satisfied with it. The Den sequence has been universally hailed by film critics as the best feature in the movie due to Corbens involvement.

The film was animated using a process known as rotoscoping, where a human is filmed and then the animation is added over this footage. This technique has been used by everyone from Walt Disney to Ralph Bakshi to help capture human motion accurately.

This item was done for a scene in which Den has just saved a woman from being sacrificed and is about to become intimate with her.

Accompanying material note:

Painting is on the same sheet of paper as R429-106. The painting is part of an animation cell that has a film strip attached to the bottom.

Related material:

Please see R429-106 for a pencil sketch of the same figure caressing a female body. Please see R429-105 to R429-113 for other drawings and paintings done for the Den sequence of the Heavy Metal animated movie.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2009-00511-2

Other accession no.:

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105
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R429]

[Consultation 90 Open]

48 Item no. assigned by LAC 105

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Library and Archives Canada, acc. no. R429-105

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