Daily post 09 Oct 2006 09:09 am
Scumbling Again
- Thanks, yet again, to Amid Amidi at Cartoon Brew for leading me to a site I love, Jazz:Animated. Josh (no last name found on the site) is a musician who is studying the use of jazz in animation, and has some fine material on his blog.
His current focus is on the predom- inantly live-action Hubley film, A Date With Dizzy, and there are other excellent films, drawings and writings posted there as well. Take a look.
- Jenny Lerew has a short and important comment about women in animation on her site, Blackwing Diaries. This is something I’ve been interested in for quite some time. There’s rarely art from animating women of the pre-60′s. Retta Scott‘s picture often shows up as well as some frame grabs from her scenes in Bambi, but rarely any actual art she did. I’d worked a bit with Ruth Kissane at Hubley‘s studio and will eventually post some of her drawings. But I don’t know much about either woman. (Check out this John Sparey caricature posted at the Animation Guild Blog.)
Of course, I’ve been closest with Tissa David of all master animators and probably respect her and her work above all animators I know.
- Eddie Fitzgerald ruminates about anime. However, in his clever way, he first talks about animatics. He discusses how animatics, at times, work as well as any finished film and uses Crusader Rabbit as an example. It’s a good point since the Jay Ward show wasn’t more animated than many of the animatics that I’ve seen.
(Image from VegGalleries. Click to enlarge images.)
This brought back the memory of standing over a moviola with John Hubley watching a rough version of Voyage to Next. The film was about 2/3 complete, and they’d run out of money again. Some of the non-animated/animatic bits were still left in the film. John said that he felt that it really worked well and could probably be considered finished. I remember him saying that, “we’re going to have to train the audience how to accept that as complete.” Maybe that time has come.
- I also wanted to point out that I added four more photos to those posted yesterday. There were a couple of other people I wanted included.
