Articles on Animation &Bill Peckmann &Daily post 21 Oct 2009 08:19 am
Print ’74
- I seem to remember a lot of industry magazines that would regularly publish articles about the animation industry. Millimeter, Film Comment, On Location, Hollywood Reporter all had their animation issues that I’d search out (long before I entered the business professionally), pore over, memorize and save.
Print Magazine was a glossy magazine that featured lots of articles about design, usually print design, although there was the occasional animtion article. In 1974, there was a big issue about animation. One article, by Rod McCall, who was a designer for print as well as film, wrote an article about the commercial studios in New York with an accent on the design aspect.
Here’s that article, which is picture-centric in jpegs. If there were more text I’d have transcribed it, but this format seems best since the article is so attractively designed within the magazine.
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Thanks to Bill Peckmann for the magazine to scan and share.
on 21 Oct 2009 at 11:04 am 1.Richard O'Connor said …
Many years ago I unearthed a 3/4 tape caked with dust.
It contained all of these Blechman spots and more. I was especially interested in the few spots which mixed illustration styles. Bob was reticent to discuss them because he hated the animation. Until “Exercise” the CTW piece shown -then he just criticized the filmmaking and loved the animation.
Even in these few still you can see how Ed Smith makes the “squiggly line” sing.