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Ice Ages

2004 1 min
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Seeking shelter from a thunderstorm, a man sits in a pub watching the ice in his glass melt away. Howie Shia marries his graphic illustration style with subtle animation and a haunting soundtrack to conjure up anxiety and foreboding. He used pen and ink on tracing paper and later composited and coloured digitally. Produced as part of the second edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

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  • Hothouse
    Hothouse
    2003 - 2024 14 editions
    Short, surprising and always entertaining! Watch a collection of one-minute animated shorts from our Hothouse animation mentorship program, past and present.

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Seeking shelter from a thunderstorm, a man sits in a pub watching the ice in his glass melt away. Howie Shia marries his graphic illustration style with subtle animation and a haunting soundtrack to conjure up anxiety and foreboding. He used pen and ink on tracing paper and later composited and coloured digitally.

Produced as part of the second edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
  • director
    Howie Shia
  • mentoring director
    Janet Perlman
  • sound
    Andrew Johnston
  • original music
    Andrew Johnston
  • musician
    Brian Bacon
    Nicolas Caloia
    Sheila Hannigan
  • production collaborator
    Richard Lesage
    Phyllis Lewis
  • digital imaging team
    Martin Ciastko
    Randall Finnerty
    Susan Gourley
    Pierre Landry
  • post-production
    Shelley Craig
    Sylvain Desbiens
    Geoffrey Mitchell
    Sylvain Cajelais
    Luc Léger
  • administration
    Gisèle Guilbault
    Elsa Mouana-Bankouézi
  • executive producer
    David Verrall
  • producer
    Michael Fukushima

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Ages 15 to 17
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Using colour hues as a background, write a piece of poetry that uses colour and sound words to convey a human emotion – especially isolation.
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