Rudolf Pap
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Rudolf Pap is a Hungarian-born award-winner animator and model.
He was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1989 and he is most famous about his exceptional skills in 2D animation. He was discovered in 2009 when he won an international competition, held by australian singer, Kylie Minogue .
Discovery and childhood
He was born 16 November in Budapest as an only child. He was raised in Érd. He always loved the cartoons and he began to draw very early - his biggest inspirations were the classic Disney movies, Andersen paintings, animes and famous artists like Walt Disney, Hayao Miyazaki and Gábor Csupó. Then he started to try to do animations when he was 10 - inspired by Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball. During this time he developped his skills both as an animator and background painter into professional level although he never taught it in any art school - he taught only from books. He both write and create his products and he was able to evolve an own style.[1]
Competition winning and international career beginnings
In early 2009, Pap decided to make his first own cartoon, but becouse he wouldn't be able to dub it he decided to create a music video. Becouse he is a big Kylie fan it was obvious he'll create the video for her! He started to work on the video for "Speakerphone", then he sent a 20 second long preview to the singer's management. Soon after that an international competition was announced by Kylie Minogue for her Speakerphone track. Pap finished his video and submitted along with a lot of other submissions internationally but in the end he won the contest with his first work and at the age of 19. On October 4th his music video premiered in Hollywood before Minogue's concert in the Bowl. Then the video can be seen on her official website. [2]
Media attention
After the premier in Hollywood the hungarian media disovered that a hungarian contestant won - then the next few weeks Rudolf Pap was the main new in several magazines and television programs. [3] [4] [5] Next to the big attention Pap received a lot of offers for music videos both from Hungary and internationally. He told in an interview on Viva Tv he already picked the two best offers - one from Hungary and one from Russia. [6] In mid October he was invited to Kecskemét (the hungarian basis of animation) to premier his video first in Hungary in a local cinema. [7] To bring something new to this event Pap created a short film - a crossover with the characters of his two biggest inspirations - Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball. The short film called Cross Tale and it's trailer wasn showni in the hungarian MTV on October - after that Pap got an offer for dubbing if he will make a decent cartoon from Cross Tale. Becouse of this Pap converted the short film into a teaser trailer - to not reveal the story of Cross Tale. [8] According to this trailer he will make an OVA and it will premier in 2010. [9]
Other projects
Next to being an animator he is a Univesity student and a model for 2 years. He was discovered in 2007 by his agent in a restaurant while he was with one of his friend. According to some of his interview and his Deviantart account he makes a comics series called "Snow Petals" - what is unreleased yet. [10]