Michael Sporn Animation – Splog

- I’ve been doing a little catch up on my site stops this week and have a couple of interesting ones to point out. You’ve probably all seen these since they’re posted on the bigger animation sites, but, in case you haven’t, take a look.

– Amid Amidi has posted a Flickr set of photos of artists who worked in animation in the 1950′s. This is a companion piece to his book, Cartoon Modern and gets me even more excited about reading this book. The photos are not your usual studio pictures. The one to the left, of Aurie Battaglia was just too interesting for me not to post. (It comes from the collection of John Canemaker.)

You can see some of Battaglia‘s children’s book work posted on Shane Glines’ Cartoon Retro. Follow the chatroom link about half way down for some beautiful art.

For more stills from his film, Meet the Inventor: Robert Fulton, go to Amid’s website, Cartoon Modern. (Boy does this guy have the goods.) I have a 16mm print of this short (undoubtedly magenta by now), and it still holds up – unlike so many of the shorts from the McBoing Boing series. The art is always brilliant, but the stories often drag. This film is not The Mysterious Moustache of Raoul Dufy, but it’s still sharp.

And, finally, there’s a strange note posted on i am provincetown by his niece.

- Tonight and tomorrow night in LA, the Hollywood Bowl will be presenting Fantasia live on stage. John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra recreate the film’s music with film clips on the Bowl’s big screens.

- There’s a nifty Ward Kimball animation drawing posted at Jenny Lerew‘s Blackwing Diaries. This is always a great site to visit (as if I had to tell you.)

- The Trozo gallery has built a website to feature the paintings of the Peruvian artist, Eduardo Valdivieso. Take a look at some excellent paintings. I came to this site via Drawn, an excellent site in its own right.

There’s an article on Arthur Q. Bryan (the voice of Elmer Fudd) on AWN. This is more on this actor since Michael Barrier’s article in Funnyworld, years ago.

- Animated-News is at it again. They’ve posted another interview by Christian Ziebarth with Eric Goldberg. It’s a kitchen sink kinda interview, but it’s absolutely engaging. Glad to hear what Eric’s been up to. It’d be nice to see more of this type of interview on the site. Kudos to them; it’s always an informative read.

- On Tuesday, ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive posted a number of early UPA model sheets. These are little gems that should be studied. This site is one of the great ones out there. Everytime I visit, I end up staying for dinner – the guest they can’t get rid of.

- Last but not least is an ad for Honda Accord that took $6 million and took three months to complete. I’m not sure Rube Goldberg had intended this when he created his devices, but it’s still an interesting ad to watch. (Thanks John Dewitte.)

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