William Michael Hollands (born 10 March 1946) is the

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and founder of Melbourne-based animation house Act3animation. His best known directorial work, the

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'', was a nominee at the 2005

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in Annecy,

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, the 2005 AFI Awards, for Best Short Animation, and won

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's Vidfest 2005. He was also connected to

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through their motion capture studio, '' Motion.Lab'', with which Act3animation was previously partnered, managing its commercial captures. Hollands was also an exhibiting painter in his earlier years, and did cover illustrations for various books, including the 1980 Miles Franklin Award winner,

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, by Jessica Anderson, and 1981's Fly Away Peter, by

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. As of 2014, Hollands is currently producing a new Act3animation web series entitled Bup & Endo. Created, written and directed by Hollands, episodes are released weekly on the

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Bup & Endo
The series is described as "an animated series starring two whimsical cartoon characters, Bup and Endo and the other odd characters inhabiting their strange world".

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Act3animation Homepage
* * * Film directors from Melbourne Australian animators Australian animated film directors 1946 births Living people {{Australia-film-director-stub

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