Brent Forrest

Birth : 1980-11-10, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

History

Born in Montreal, Brent Forrest started his animation career at Red Rover studios in Toronto as a co-op student in 1999. There he learned the craft of animation from Andy Knight and some of Canada’s other finest draftsmen an animators. He has won awards for his animation, special effects and direction including a Gemini nomination for title design and an Annecy Nomination for Like and Follow(2019). He works as a Technical Director in Tokyo.

Profile

Movies

Samurai Frog Golf

Director

A retired frog samurai wants nothing more than to be left alone and spend his remaining years in peace on the golf course. But when he unwillingly becomes the protector of a baby turtle he must draw his club for one more round. An animated amphibious adventure for golfers of all ages.

CRACK

Phoney (voice)

f you or someone you know suffers from the horrors of smartphone addiction, the OK Boomers of America want you to know, there is help.

CRACK

Director

f you or someone you know suffers from the horrors of smartphone addiction, the OK Boomers of America want you to know, there is help.

The Peak

Editor

In the middle of the night, Sarah wakes up because she needs to go to the bathroom, an apparently simple task that will become in a great adventure.

Like and Follow

Director

When a kid starts spending time in the real world, it's up to his smartphone to bring his attention back to where it belongs.

Dirty Pool

Animation

Dirty Pool is a two minute 3d animation short film created by Brent Forrest in 2016. The short was inspired by the Charlotte Room in Toronto, Canada and JP the cheating drunk who couldn't beat the director at pool if his life depended on it. All sound FX were self recorded with an iphone in a pool hall in Tokyo.

Dirty Pool

Director

Sincere Slugs

Director

In 2003 this animated video of four adorable singing tough-skinned terrestrial mollusks went viral. If you listen closely you’ll probably be able to recognize the audio by a pretty famous quartet from a rather iconic movie.This is one where you should open up all the windows, “crank up” the volume, and let yourself FEEL the strength of these voices while you enjoy the visual eye candy.