September 04, 2006
Barrier on ANIMATION BLAST #9
Esteemed animation historian Michael Barrier has commented on his website about the John Sibley article in the new ANIMATION BLAST #9. Here's what he says:
So far I've read Pete Docter's piece on John Sibley, the Disney animator, in Animation Blast, and it's an outstanding piece of work—lots of good research (I shared with Pete excerpts from some of my interviews, as I've done with Amid and John Canemaker and other writers I respect), wrapped up in an article that conveys extremely well Sibley's strengths as an animator and his characteristics as a person. Pete is himself an animation pro, the director of Pixar's Monsters, Inc., and it's tremendously encouraging that a leading professional at the leading animation studio has such a strong sense of his medium's history.
If you want to see what he's talking about, order your very own copy of BLAST 9 HERE.