Animating Kurt Cobain | Hisko Hulsing | TEDxHilversum

How the dark side of life connects two souls. Hisko Hulsing reveals the secrets of the first authorised documentary on Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. This talk was recorded in 4K (UHD). Hisko Hulsing majored in painting and animation at the art academy of Rotterdam and graduated in 1995. He has made illustrations and storyboards for over a hundred advertising- and production companies. He has directed and animated television leaders for MTV and Dutch broadcasting companies, and he has created comics which have been published in Eisner and Zone 5300. In 2012 Hisko was invited by Disney Studios, Dreamworks and Blue Sky Studios to present his film Junkyard to the artists. And in 2013, he made more than a hundred oil paintings on canvas to serve as backgrounds for the hybrid live-action/animation documentary The Last Hijack, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival 2014. In 2014, Hisko Hulsing and his team of animators made large animated sequences for Montage of Heck, the first authorized documentary about Kurt Cobain, directed by Brett Morgen. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and will be theatrically released by Universal Pictures worldwide. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx