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June 21, 2011 12:30 am
Patrick McHale is a writer/board artist at Cartoon Network (Adventure Time, Flapjack, etc.). He’s been creating some funny little shorts and posting them on Vimeo over the past couple months. Here are my two favorites. (Thanks, Kent Osborne) 21 Comments » posted in Animators, Patrick McHale 
June 11, 2011 1:23 am
The legendary Tyrus Wong, who art directed Bambi among countless other accomplishments and who is one hundred years young, was hanging out at Pixar yesterday. Here are some impressions of his visit as tweeted by Pixar artists:
Today, the rumor is that he’ll make an appearance at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, though they haven’t officially announced it. The museum is hosting a lecture at 3pm called “The Art of Tyrus Wong” with historian Charles Solomon, and production designers Ralph Eggleston (WALL·E, Finding Nemo) and Paul Felix (Lilo & Stitch, The Emperor’s New Groove). I imagine that’s the event Ty will appear at, but even if he doesn’t, it still sounds like a terrific presentation. I’d recommend purchasing an on-line ticket before showing up because it’s probably going to be a sell out. 7 Comments » posted in Animators, Disney, Events, Bambi, Tyrus Wong
June 8, 2011 4:37 am
If you have the slightest interest in classic Hollywood animation, do not miss this colossal 1991 interview with Fred Kopietz conducted by Michael Barrier. Fred who? Kopietz is not a household name by any stretch of the imagination, even amongst animation historians, but he was a distinguished contributor to the Golden Age of animation who worked on Flip the Frog cartoons with Ub Iwerks, Oswald cartoons with Walter Lantz, and animated for years at Disney. Barrier’s interview with him sheds light on familiar studios, artists, and cartoons from a completely fresh perspective. Kopietz is remarkably modest throughout the interview, so much so that one might not realize how respected he was by his peers. There’s a good reason that Ward Kimball used Kopietz as his right-hand man on the title song animation of The Three Caballeros. At nearly twenty thousand words, Barrier’s interview contains a veritable treasure trove of stories and insights, such as how Kopietz helped Chuck Jones get his first job in animation, wonderful descriptions of Lantz’s studio operations in the 1930s, Kopietz’s frustrations with how credit was doled out at Disney, why he refused to work with Woolie Reitherman, and his disastrous experience trying to direct Beany and Cecil for Bob Clampett. Amusingly, the interview is also peppered with Kopietz’s recollections about where various artists lived owing to the fact that he had a real estate broker’s license. (Photo: Fred Kopietz on the right, with Ward Kimball) 7 Comments » posted in Animators, Classic, Disney, Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, Fred Kopietz, Ub Iwerks, Walter Lantz, Ward Kimball
June 1, 2011 4:41 pm
New England independent filmmaker and Sesame Street animator Karen Aqua (b. 1954) passed away a couple days ago following a ten year battle with cancer. Michael Sporn’s Splog has a memorial blog post with comments from a who’s who of indie animation including Joanna Priestley, Skip Battaglia, Janet Perlman, Kathy Rose, Ruth Lingford, Candy Kugel, and Paul Glabicki, among many others. 7 Comments » posted in Animators, Karen Aqua
May 27, 2011 11:37 am
Here’s a toast to British animation legend Bob Godfrey who turns ninety years old today. Read a tribute to Bob on the VanArts school website. Better yet, watch this BBC TV episode about Bob from the 1970s: (Bob Godfrey photo via Michael Sporn’s Splog, thanks Ken Priebe for sending the story) 8 Comments » posted in Animators, Bob Godfrey, UK
May 22, 2011 3:56 pm
This photo of Kung Fu Panda 2 director Jennifer Yuh Nelson attending the film’s premiere earlier today was posted onto DreamWorks’s Twitter account. A Korean-American, she is (I believe) the first female Asian director of a major animated feature. The lack of racial and gender diversity in Hollywood animation, particularly in the upper-tier creative positions, has always been disheartening to me, largely because the lack of different points of view is reflected in the animation that appear in theaters and on TV. It’s encouraging to see a new generation of directors, like Yuh Nelson and Rio’s Carlos Saldanha, who don’t fit the traditional animation director mold. Here’s her official bio from the studio:
And here’s an interview with her: 31 Comments » posted in Animators, DreamWorks Animation, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Kung Fu Panda 2
May 18, 2011 10:06 am
Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich promised to post an embarrassing old video when he reached 100k followers on his Twitter account. He reached that number yesterday, and the embarrassing video is this appearance on the Eighties game show Win, Lose or Draw. Unkrich prefaced the video with three facts:
Fun question of the day: What other animation artists, besides Unkrich and Ward Kimball, have appeared on game shows? Please share if you know. 44 Comments » posted in Animators, Pixar
May 17, 2011 1:00 am
Sensual rotoscope animation about “overcoming the fear of commitment”, Fear Me Not by Malika Whitaker: |
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