ASIFA-Hollywood: The International Animated Film Society
Friday, December 31, 2004
Animation Rescue Team Response
Thank you Eric, you are on the list. This is just what we are looking for. If we have 20 or 30 people that can sometimes drop everything and sometimes can`t then we should be able to put together a small team at the drop of a hat to save Animation treasures when the time comes and we need to act quickly.
ASIFA is here to serve the animation community both professional and fan. What better way to do so then to save the artifacts of this field for history?
¶ 2:41 PM
Hi, Larry.
An animation rescue team--an excellent idea!
I'm afraid I may not be a very good animation rescue team member, me
being in Tustin with a full time job and a very full schedule, but sign
me up for the call to arms anyway and I'll do what I can. Please add
both this address (eric@xxxxxxxx.com) and narkspud@xxxxx.com to
the email list (if any), and call work 949-xxx-xxxx 7:30 am to 4:30 pm,
and home 714-xxx-xxxx all other times if you need me. Sometimes I can
drop everything, often I can't, but it's worth a try.
Thank you Eric, you are on the list. This is just what we are looking for. If we have 20 or 30 people that can sometimes drop everything and sometimes can`t then we should be able to put together a small team at the drop of a hat to save Animation treasures when the time comes and we need to act quickly.
ASIFA is here to serve the animation community both professional and fan. What better way to do so then to save the artifacts of this field for history?
¶ 2:41 PM
Stop Motion Bones
A few days ago I got on my soapbox (yet again) and started going on about how none of the schools will teach stop motion. One of my favorite red haired stepchild causes if ever I heard one.
It is all well and good to complain about stuff on the Internet, that is what the Internet is for, but how about doing a little something about the problem, I said to myself. At the same time I could fill up a little space here with some useful information, a completely novel idea in itself.
Stop motion animation starts with the armature and quite often ends with it because they are so hard to create. The example above took me about 60 hours to create.
Didn`t grow up in a garage like I did with tools as you toys? While you don`t know what you are missing but it is a little late now. So here is where to go to get a low cost armature kit.
http://www.armaverse.com
Now Armaverse strikes me as being a cutesy name but who cares. They have a good product at a reasonable price. What else can you ask for?
¶ 7:22 AM
A few days ago I got on my soapbox (yet again) and started going on about how none of the schools will teach stop motion. One of my favorite red haired stepchild causes if ever I heard one.
It is all well and good to complain about stuff on the Internet, that is what the Internet is for, but how about doing a little something about the problem, I said to myself. At the same time I could fill up a little space here with some useful information, a completely novel idea in itself.
Stop motion animation starts with the armature and quite often ends with it because they are so hard to create. The example above took me about 60 hours to create.
Didn`t grow up in a garage like I did with tools as you toys? While you don`t know what you are missing but it is a little late now. So here is where to go to get a low cost armature kit.
http://www.armaverse.com
Now Armaverse strikes me as being a cutesy name but who cares. They have a good product at a reasonable price. What else can you ask for?
¶ 7:22 AM
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Urgent Need to form ASIFA Animation Rescue Team
I ran into Burbank today and dragged my son along to help rescue animation art. It is a long drive from Orange County but I could not find anyone else and it had to be done and done now. Far too often that is the case. We get a call that an animation treasure is about to be lost forever.
After having run this drill far too many times I feel that it is time to do something about it. Therefore I am purposing a permanent ASIFA Animation Rescue Team.
What I feel is needed it a team of 20 or so people that will be on call a short notice so that we can always put together a team of 6 or 7 people to save animation treasures and endangered artwork.
If you would like to be part of this team please contact me: larry@agni-animation.com
The cool thing is that you get to touch the animation treasures of the past and make a real difference at the same time. I think we should have cool shirts that say Animation Rescue Team (ART) and get merit badges for the number of rescue missions we go on. If we are going to be boyscouts we should get the neat badges to impress our friends with.
¶ 8:12 PM
I ran into Burbank today and dragged my son along to help rescue animation art. It is a long drive from Orange County but I could not find anyone else and it had to be done and done now. Far too often that is the case. We get a call that an animation treasure is about to be lost forever.
Good Morning Larry,
I hate to bother you with this, but we need to line-up a handful of volunteers to help move a bunch of stuff out of our old storage space, today. Late yesterday morning, Kathy and I went by the office to check on things, and found that there had been some flooding in storage.
Upon further examination, we discovered that there were several leaks in the ceiling, which was causing water damage to animation artwork and archival materials. Since the place was so packed with boxes, it practically impossible to get to leaks without having empty the space. With there being no room in the Animation Center, we ended up renting a 14 foot truck, and loaded it up with the boxes that were in danger of getting wet.
This material now needs to be taken to the new space, and unloaded. Ideally, we should try and clear out as much stuff as we can, in order for it not to be damaged. Therefore, I would appreciate it if you wouldn't mind contacting some folks, to see if they wouldn't mind helping out.
Since I am going to be running around this morning, would you kindly give me a call on my cell phone, to let me know if you help me out with this.
My number is (818) xxx-xxxx.
Thanks,
Antran.
After having run this drill far too many times I feel that it is time to do something about it. Therefore I am purposing a permanent ASIFA Animation Rescue Team.
What I feel is needed it a team of 20 or so people that will be on call a short notice so that we can always put together a team of 6 or 7 people to save animation treasures and endangered artwork.
If you would like to be part of this team please contact me: larry@agni-animation.com
The cool thing is that you get to touch the animation treasures of the past and make a real difference at the same time. I think we should have cool shirts that say Animation Rescue Team (ART) and get merit badges for the number of rescue missions we go on. If we are going to be boyscouts we should get the neat badges to impress our friends with.
¶ 8:12 PM
One of my favorite places on the web is Don Markstein's Toonopedia (TM). Don is a writer and editor and giant toon culture freak which makes him alright with me.
I can spend hours, and often do, just wondering around his database of all this toony, both comic stripe/book and animation.
Don edited Comics Revue from 1984-87, and then again in1992-96, which puts him in a god-like pantheon in my book.
If you have never visited his site you owe it to yourself to get lost in it for a few hours, days, weeks: toonopedia.com
¶ 8:04 AM
I can spend hours, and often do, just wondering around his database of all this toony, both comic stripe/book and animation.
Don edited Comics Revue from 1984-87, and then again in1992-96, which puts him in a god-like pantheon in my book.
If you have never visited his site you owe it to yourself to get lost in it for a few hours, days, weeks: toonopedia.com
¶ 8:04 AM
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Hard Luck Charley Bowers Gets His Break
The Library of Congress inducts 3 animated films out of this year`s 25 films added to the Film Registry.
This is work the Film Registry should be about. Preserving the work of forgotten genus for the ages to come. Charley Bowers, was a stop motion animator, silent comedian, 2-D animator (Mutt and Jeff) and ex-circus performer. But very few people know him today.
As fortune would have it a DVD of his known complete surviving work is now available. DVDtoons The work is amazing and no longer hard to find. I even got one of his films on a 99 cent DVD. It`s about time that Hard Luck Charley gets his break. ¶ 6:24 AM
The Library of Congress inducts 3 animated films out of this year`s 25 films added to the Film Registry.
8) Duck and Cover (1951) is a Conelrad atomic defense commercial
19) Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936) is a Fleischer Popeye
24) There It Is (1928). is one of Charley Bowers surrealist shorts, a film combing live action with stop-motion animation. A forgotten genus of American cinema makes it into the Film Registry.
This is work the Film Registry should be about. Preserving the work of forgotten genus for the ages to come. Charley Bowers, was a stop motion animator, silent comedian, 2-D animator (Mutt and Jeff) and ex-circus performer. But very few people know him today.
As fortune would have it a DVD of his known complete surviving work is now available. DVDtoons The work is amazing and no longer hard to find. I even got one of his films on a 99 cent DVD. It`s about time that Hard Luck Charley gets his break. ¶ 6:24 AM
Monday, December 27, 2004
Very Late Book Review
Christmas present time. I really wanted this book when it first came out but bucks were tight at the time, something that happens in a two artist household.
That is the really cool thing about Christmas, the people that love you get you the things you really wanted but didn`t feel you should afford for yourself.
Anybody that knows me knows how crazy I am about Aardman Animation. This book is a kind of great catch-all, behind the scenes, how to, and history of animation book. It has everything including flipbook animations in the corners of the pages. I love that.
The history section goes into the English parts of animation history that are always, for some strange reason, overlooked by the writers on this side of the Atlantic. It is nice to read a book that knows William Friese-Greene.
Lots of nice behind the scenes shots and production pictures. Good section on how to do the tricks, the rain, grommet with the drill, armature shots, in short all the things you need to know to learn to do stop motion animation.
A great book that I have wanted for a long time. It is obviously still on the market because my wife found it for me somewhere. Once I am done reading it I will make a place for this book on my reference shelf right next to my copy of Don Dohler`s 1980 Stop Motion Animation.
Here comes the soapbox part, why can`t I find a school that will teach their students stop motion. I have been after a number of schools for a number of years. Come on guys, let me teach your students a stop motion class or seminar.
Everybody says that learning animation principals on the computer is very, very hard. Camel through the eye of a needle stuff. Traditional 2-D and 3-D (stop motion) are the best ways to learn to animate. In fact I feel stop motion teaches animation faster. For some reason none of the schools will teach stop motion, even the schools that still teach 2-D. End of soapbox.
¶ 9:06 AM
Christmas present time. I really wanted this book when it first came out but bucks were tight at the time, something that happens in a two artist household.
That is the really cool thing about Christmas, the people that love you get you the things you really wanted but didn`t feel you should afford for yourself.
Anybody that knows me knows how crazy I am about Aardman Animation. This book is a kind of great catch-all, behind the scenes, how to, and history of animation book. It has everything including flipbook animations in the corners of the pages. I love that.
The history section goes into the English parts of animation history that are always, for some strange reason, overlooked by the writers on this side of the Atlantic. It is nice to read a book that knows William Friese-Greene.
Lots of nice behind the scenes shots and production pictures. Good section on how to do the tricks, the rain, grommet with the drill, armature shots, in short all the things you need to know to learn to do stop motion animation.
A great book that I have wanted for a long time. It is obviously still on the market because my wife found it for me somewhere. Once I am done reading it I will make a place for this book on my reference shelf right next to my copy of Don Dohler`s 1980 Stop Motion Animation.
Here comes the soapbox part, why can`t I find a school that will teach their students stop motion. I have been after a number of schools for a number of years. Come on guys, let me teach your students a stop motion class or seminar.
Everybody says that learning animation principals on the computer is very, very hard. Camel through the eye of a needle stuff. Traditional 2-D and 3-D (stop motion) are the best ways to learn to animate. In fact I feel stop motion teaches animation faster. For some reason none of the schools will teach stop motion, even the schools that still teach 2-D. End of soapbox.
¶ 9:06 AM
Sunday, December 26, 2004
The Incredibles: Best Film of 1972
People just stair at me like I have grown another head every time I mention the time setting for the Incredibles.
Maybe it is because the Incredibles is not really a period piece even if it is set in 1972 or 1973? You did`t catch that? Missed the year somehow? You`re not alone.
Thunderhead dies in a cape related accident in 1958, Thunderhead was at the wedding of Bob and Helen Parr, in costume, therefore their wedding happened before 1958. Dead heroes don`t show up at weddings that often. Add 15 years and we are in the early 70`s. Prime superhero comic book time!
Still don`t believe me? Just look at the cars, the furniture, the High Karate used by Frozone. Do they still make High Karate? But somehow everybody misses the fact that the movie takes place in 1972 not 2004.
Maybe it is because the film is filmed like a current movie not a period piece? Maybe it is because the characters are stylized to the point that they become archetypes as every true superhero and Villain should? Maybe it is all the modern comic book devices used by the heroes and villains? It might just be a combination of all of these factors?
Somehow there is something timeless about this film that sets it outside space and time to the point that people just miss the 1972 time setting completely. When a filmmaker can put it right out there, music and all, and nobody can see it there is something really magic going on in the filmmaking process.
Is it important to the story that the Incredibles is set in the silver age of comic book heroes? No, not at all. What is important is the filmmaking magic that makes everybody miss that fact.
What I want to know, and tried to ask the last time Brad was in town, is did he do this on purpose? Did he set out to hide the time period in plan site or did it just happen? On that question hangs just how incredible his talent really is as a master magician of the modern cinema?
Incredibles 70`s Cars ¶ 9:10 AM
Maybe it is because the Incredibles is not really a period piece even if it is set in 1972 or 1973? You did`t catch that? Missed the year somehow? You`re not alone.
Thunderhead dies in a cape related accident in 1958, Thunderhead was at the wedding of Bob and Helen Parr, in costume, therefore their wedding happened before 1958. Dead heroes don`t show up at weddings that often. Add 15 years and we are in the early 70`s. Prime superhero comic book time!
Still don`t believe me? Just look at the cars, the furniture, the High Karate used by Frozone. Do they still make High Karate? But somehow everybody misses the fact that the movie takes place in 1972 not 2004.
Maybe it is because the film is filmed like a current movie not a period piece? Maybe it is because the characters are stylized to the point that they become archetypes as every true superhero and Villain should? Maybe it is all the modern comic book devices used by the heroes and villains? It might just be a combination of all of these factors?
Somehow there is something timeless about this film that sets it outside space and time to the point that people just miss the 1972 time setting completely. When a filmmaker can put it right out there, music and all, and nobody can see it there is something really magic going on in the filmmaking process.
Is it important to the story that the Incredibles is set in the silver age of comic book heroes? No, not at all. What is important is the filmmaking magic that makes everybody miss that fact.
What I want to know, and tried to ask the last time Brad was in town, is did he do this on purpose? Did he set out to hide the time period in plan site or did it just happen? On that question hangs just how incredible his talent really is as a master magician of the modern cinema?
Incredibles 70`s Cars ¶ 9:10 AM
Friday, December 24, 2004
Thursday, December 23, 2004
A lot of people look at the Disney Strike as a very bad thing. A lot of people won`t even talk about it. Back in 1941 Walt Kelly was a Disney Striker. If he had not gone out on strike we never would have had Pogo Possum and without Pogo Possum we never would have had my favorite Christmas merry Boston Charlie carol. So why don`t ya mossy on over ta da swamp an dish yarselves a big heaping mess of the one and only Pogo lyrics. http://www.pogopossum.com (I grewed up in the South so I can talk that way an still be PC)
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Wednesday, December 22, 2004
99 and 44/100`s % Hayao Miyazaki
The 99 Cent Only Store has done it again! This time I am almost positive that they have a Spanish version of the 1974 Zuiyo Studio Heidi with layouts and design by Hayao Miyazaki and direction by Atsuji Hayakawa, Masao Kuroda, and long time Miyazaki collaborator Isao Takahata.
I can`t be 100% because I have never seen it before but Yee Gods and littl` fishes it looks like Miyazaki even if the picture quality is not the greatest. It is copyright 1974 which is the right year. Not only that but they do credit Takeo Watanabe with music even when no one else gets credit but the people that repackaged it in Canada.
One of the things that makes it a little hard to nail down is the fact that the original was a Japanese television series and this one is packaged as a feature. A lot of the images I find around the web look like stuff that has been cut from this packaging.
The final fact in favor is that the characters look the same just a little washed out in the 99 cent version. As you can see from the images below. This has got to be the real thing, it just has got to be. And if it is not then you are only out a dollar.
Miyazaki`s Heidi -------- 99 Cent Mystery Heidi
¶ 7:41 PM
The 99 Cent Only Store has done it again! This time I am almost positive that they have a Spanish version of the 1974 Zuiyo Studio Heidi with layouts and design by Hayao Miyazaki and direction by Atsuji Hayakawa, Masao Kuroda, and long time Miyazaki collaborator Isao Takahata.
I can`t be 100% because I have never seen it before but Yee Gods and littl` fishes it looks like Miyazaki even if the picture quality is not the greatest. It is copyright 1974 which is the right year. Not only that but they do credit Takeo Watanabe with music even when no one else gets credit but the people that repackaged it in Canada.
One of the things that makes it a little hard to nail down is the fact that the original was a Japanese television series and this one is packaged as a feature. A lot of the images I find around the web look like stuff that has been cut from this packaging.
The final fact in favor is that the characters look the same just a little washed out in the 99 cent version. As you can see from the images below. This has got to be the real thing, it just has got to be. And if it is not then you are only out a dollar.
Miyazaki`s Heidi -------- 99 Cent Mystery Heidi
¶ 7:41 PM
Monday, December 20, 2004
Clueless in Germany
I just got this e-mail from some jerk in Germany. Hey read the blog. I said NO, I will not sell or give away my screeners to you, my friends, my students, or anybody else. Don`t ask. I am glad, glad, I say that they have tracking numbers on them because it cuts down on fools like this that ask me studid questions. I teach copyright law you fools don`t ask. Too bad the tracking numbers does not get rid of greedy fools completlely.
Here is you answer Oliver, NO!!!!!! If you want the swag then join ASIFA-Hollywood and then you can put up with fools wanting you to get yourself banned from the studio screener lists.
¶ 8:19 PM
hi larry,
let me introduce myself: my name is oliver and i live in cologne, germany. i was seeking the web for a dvd screener of the incredibles and i suddenly saw that you wrote something about the dvd (having pic problems,whatever...). i know that im just an unimportant person out of millions on this world whos writing to you. anyway, im sure, that youre a nice person and so i wanted to ask you if theres a possibility for me to get one of those 3 the incredibles-dvd`s that you have from the asifa. dont worry, id surely pay you for that.
greetings from germany
oliver
Here is you answer Oliver, NO!!!!!! If you want the swag then join ASIFA-Hollywood and then you can put up with fools wanting you to get yourself banned from the studio screener lists.
¶ 8:19 PM
DAY OF REMEMBRANCE!
I just got this copy from Tom Sito. I never miss this event. For the past 3 or 4 years my kids and I go together. I take notes and learn things that I can pass on to my students. It is not a sad event at all and I wouldn`t miss it for the world. * Larry Loc
IT'S THE HOLIDAY SEASON: parties, gifts, family- and time to plan to attend the 2005 DAY OF REMEMBRANCE! Okay, okay, I know going to a memorial is not everybody's idea of spending a fun-filled Saturday afternoon. But the Day of Remembrance was never conceived as a dreary funeral. It's a celebration of the lives and careers of some of animation`s most wonderful people.
It's not a religious service; it`s not in a church; nobody`s in black; frequently, there`s more laughter than tears. You don't have to be a family member or have some personal connection to attend. The event was created for friends and co-workers to share stories about their old friends. It`s the animation industry saying goodbye to some of its own. I`ve learned a lot over the years just by listening to old animators tell war stories of their careers. During these ceremonies, I've found it particularly interesting to hear about the things the honorees did besides animation.
In previous years we`ve heard about one animator who designed the board game Chutes & Ladders; He-Man layout man, Wes Hersenschonn, hung out one summer with Picasso and wrote a book, My Summer with Picasso; another artist was a drummer for the rock band the Turtles. Disney assistant, Dale Oliver, flew a
glider with the 82nd Airborne in the D-Day invasion. Bugs Bunny animator, Ben Washam, created the fat kid logo for Bob`s Big Boy. Still, another, had an award-winning collection of tropical pith helmets.
Among this year`s 45 honorees will be the Disney legends Frank Thomas, John Hcnch and Volus Jones; Kathrin Victor, who, when not doing the job of animation checker, starred in 60`s B movies like The Wild, Wild World of Batwoman; Dayton Allen, the voice of Heckle & Jeckle; announcer Jackson Beck who first said "Look! It`s a Bird! It`s a Plane! It`s Superman!" Mitsuteru Yokoyama the creator of Gigantor, And Donald Trumbull who was a major designer of the effects for 1977 STAR WARS and was the father of visual effects great Douglas Trumbull.
We honor all persons who were part of the animation world, from studio heads to ink & painters. The speakers are frequently the leaders of animation. Chuck Jones, Bill Stout, Arthur Davis, June Foray and many others have come to speak in the past.
At the end of the year we pause to recall those who left us and how much they meant to us. You are welcome to come to ASIFA/Hollywood, TAG 839 and WIA`s Day of Remembrance.
Tom Sito
¶ 8:04 PM
IT'S THE HOLIDAY SEASON: parties, gifts, family- and time to plan to attend the 2005 DAY OF REMEMBRANCE! Okay, okay, I know going to a memorial is not everybody's idea of spending a fun-filled Saturday afternoon. But the Day of Remembrance was never conceived as a dreary funeral. It's a celebration of the lives and careers of some of animation`s most wonderful people.
It's not a religious service; it`s not in a church; nobody`s in black; frequently, there`s more laughter than tears. You don't have to be a family member or have some personal connection to attend. The event was created for friends and co-workers to share stories about their old friends. It`s the animation industry saying goodbye to some of its own. I`ve learned a lot over the years just by listening to old animators tell war stories of their careers. During these ceremonies, I've found it particularly interesting to hear about the things the honorees did besides animation.
In previous years we`ve heard about one animator who designed the board game Chutes & Ladders; He-Man layout man, Wes Hersenschonn, hung out one summer with Picasso and wrote a book, My Summer with Picasso; another artist was a drummer for the rock band the Turtles. Disney assistant, Dale Oliver, flew a
glider with the 82nd Airborne in the D-Day invasion. Bugs Bunny animator, Ben Washam, created the fat kid logo for Bob`s Big Boy. Still, another, had an award-winning collection of tropical pith helmets.
Among this year`s 45 honorees will be the Disney legends Frank Thomas, John Hcnch and Volus Jones; Kathrin Victor, who, when not doing the job of animation checker, starred in 60`s B movies like The Wild, Wild World of Batwoman; Dayton Allen, the voice of Heckle & Jeckle; announcer Jackson Beck who first said "Look! It`s a Bird! It`s a Plane! It`s Superman!" Mitsuteru Yokoyama the creator of Gigantor, And Donald Trumbull who was a major designer of the effects for 1977 STAR WARS and was the father of visual effects great Douglas Trumbull.
We honor all persons who were part of the animation world, from studio heads to ink & painters. The speakers are frequently the leaders of animation. Chuck Jones, Bill Stout, Arthur Davis, June Foray and many others have come to speak in the past.
At the end of the year we pause to recall those who left us and how much they meant to us. You are welcome to come to ASIFA/Hollywood, TAG 839 and WIA`s Day of Remembrance.
The food & drinks begin at 1:00PM and the speakers at 2:00PM. There is no admission and attire is better casual. You may laugh, you may tear up, but you most certainly will learn some new stuff. For more info check the ASIFA-Hollywood or the Animation Guild websites.
It will be held on Saturday, the 29th of January 2005
at the historic Hollywood Studio Museum,
aka the DeMille Lasky Barn where the first Hollywood movie was filmed.
Across the street from the Hollywood Bowl at
2100 N. Highland Blvd. in Hollywood.
Tom Sito
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Sunday, December 19, 2004
Saturday, December 18, 2004
I have posted my last set of grades for the semester. Free at last, free at last! Now it is right on to Christmas. Speaking of which the ASIFA-Hollywood party was great. Couple hundred animators or so hanging out and talking about animation. I sang a few verses of Deck us all with Boston Charley to Rita Street, hung out with old friends, met new friends, proudly introduced around some of my students that were smart enough to get my message on networking.
I know I said that I would talk a little on the Brad Bird screening at a later date. (This being that later date) I lied. I re-read the stuff over on Animated News and they cover all the bases.
What I will do is pass on some insights from my History of Animation students from Cal State Fullerton. On the final I asked them to give me their favorite fun fact that they got from the class. Here is a sampling of their answers:
¶ 9:25 AM
I know I said that I would talk a little on the Brad Bird screening at a later date. (This being that later date) I lied. I re-read the stuff over on Animated News and they cover all the bases.
What I will do is pass on some insights from my History of Animation students from Cal State Fullerton. On the final I asked them to give me their favorite fun fact that they got from the class. Here is a sampling of their answers:
- The voice of Boris Badinou was a narc (Paul Frees was not just a voice actor he was also an FBI Special Agent on the Hollywood narcotics squad)
- I learned that there is a Dark Side of the animation history. All the breach of contracts, the strikes, and the backstabbing. I also like the guest speakers that came.
- I`m not sure its really a fact but having Tom Sito come and speak on the strikes really gave us an opportunity to get an insiders point of view. I`ll never forget his pro union speech.
- The guest lecturers, I really enjoyed Tom Sito. I`d write down the paint lady`s name but I forgot what it was. (Martha Sigall)
- Learning about how the industry really works and that the Disney company wasn`t all happy and wonderful as they claimed to be.
- The animation industry was brutally serious! Walt Disney was not as heroic as I thought!
- Flintstones advertised cigarettes!
- That Betty Boop used to be a dog. (Betty was originally designed as a girlfriend for a cartoon dog named Bimbo back when Bimbo meant a tough or gangster)
- I really enjoyed seeing the cartoons that the animation studios and film companies deny ever making. The guest speakers were also amazing.
- All the back stabbing that goes on in this industry. Awesome. Also, I am a new fan of Karl Zeman. I need to get my hands on to Baron Munchhousen.
- Animation does not have to be done by Disney to kick ass! Hertzfeldt rocks! (I showed Rejected in class)
- That Walt Disney was not as charming as I thought he would be. He was a grumpy guy who many animators had mixed feeling about. Walt took things very personally like the strike but at times he can be a sweet man like when he paid for the hospital bills of one of his workers. (Walt left Al Zinnen on the payroll for a year and a half when Al was dying. He also paid for Al`s funeral. * source, Al`s nephew, one of my former students)
- That Speedy Gonzales was based off the animator Frank Gonzales.
- I was most fascinated by the pre Disney portion of the class. I learned a lot that I had not known before taking this course. I think it is good for animators and other in the same field to learn and know as much as possible about the history and heritage of the medium.
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Rita Street, just back from Japan, doing something like a dance or maybe cleaning the floor? The party was very large. Steve Worth announced the gift to the archive of the complete Spumco library, black and white popeyes and all. How cool is that?
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Friday, December 17, 2004
Incredibles with Brad Bird
Thursday night screening of the Incredibles with Brad Bird. We all get the sound track at the swag table
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