Talk:Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis

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Planned Edits

I am a student at Muhlenberg College planning to make the following edits on this page for an assignment for a class:

Many filmmakers have filmographies on their Wikipedia pages. These serve as a concise way of learning the filmmaker’s body of work and what position they held on each project. I plan to add a filmography for this page using, mainly, Imdb.com

Imdb also contains a valuable amount of information about the awards that each film has been nominated for and has received. I would like to add a section for the awards and recognitions that these two women hold for their films. Currently, their page contains quite a bit of information about these awards and nominations; however, I would like to create an awards section directly after the filmography section to organize this page better and sort that information here. I would also like to add to that section if I am able to find more information that would be appropriate.

There are many different animation techniques in practice. Tilby’s short film Strings applies a glass painting animation method. I would like to add a section of their animation techniques where I could detail the style, inspiration, and method of their art. This glass painting method is somewhat rare, and particularly interesting due to its temporary state. I would like to add subheadings for each of the films they have made, because they use many different styles of animation. The animation style used in Wild Life was gouache painting, and this film took seven years to complete.

I would also like to elaborate on the listed body of work that they have. Other than short films, the duo has also animated a variety of commercials that were nominated for some small-scale awards. While working for ACME films they animated a Christmas card for the company. They have also animated a variety of logos for large organizations, as well as some trailers for organizations and promotional memos. They have also created illustrations for “Uppercase Magazine” and “Avenue Magazine” and many posters for Film Festivals.

I would like to add a heading on their personal lives, with individual subheadings for Tilby and Forbis, which would distinguish them from each other as they have student films that they have worked on without the other. However, if I cannot find enough research to justify having a whole section of the page for their personal live, I will just add some more information on their personal lives to the introductory section. Their personal website has some valuable information about their lives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abarranca (talk • contribs) 16:19, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good to me. This is a stub article badly in need of expansion. Wendy Tilby originally had her own bio article, which was merged into this one, as I recall (by me) -- as there was no need for two articles, one on her, one on her partnership with Forbis (and then possible a third article, on Forbis). So yes to creating subsections where individual work can be addressed. And finally, as a procedural note, please remember to sign your posts by clicking on the "tilde" key four times, like so ~~~~. best, Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:33, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

- Would someone weigh in on IMDb as a reliable source? Not doubting Abarranca just curious. Thank you.MMHobbs (talk) 17:40, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yes, IMDb is not considered a reliable source. Abarranca isn't using it to make any controversial claims, though, and it should be pretty easy to remove those references and replace them with something better. best, Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:52, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

maybe some biographical information for each of them? Also, especially when working with artists, pictures are nice. Some stills from their films I think would be especially beneficial. also just making more headings will make the page look nicer, more organized. SarahBatya (talk) 15:38, 20 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps adding a section dedicated to describing their style may be helpful? The article gives a lot of tribute to their work (like listing it), but there is no section to describe their styles and methods of animation. Ar245891 (talk) 19:09, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree that a stylistic discussion would be of great benefit, if it can be verified and not be WP:OR. Also, I just did a bit of clean up in the list of works. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:07, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It definitely looks a lot better now but I would still try to add some images. Whether it's film posters or examples of their animation. I also agree with Amanda and Shawn that some explanation of their style would be helpful for understanding who these women are and why they might be important. SarahBatya (talk) 15:15, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]