October 15th, 2024

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STUDENTS: Will Finn’s Letter From Ward Kimball

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Ward Kimball Advice

Here is perhaps the best tip you’ll get all year… Ward Kimball’s advice for young animators. Thanks to Will Finn for sharing this!

I found the last paragraph to be particularly interesting and relevant. Kimball knows that his point is apt to fly right over an enthusiastic 15 year old’s head, so he tells him to save the letter and read it later in his life. Kimball’s words are directly applicable to the things animation is going through today…

He says, “Of course Hanna Barbera are pretty crude compared to Disney’s. But this is a problem of economics. H&B are filling a need and it is a business just like selling washing machines. We all can’t be part of an organization such as Disney’s with almost untold capital to underwrite full animation. Lots of cartoon co.’s would like to indulge in full animation, but the economic realities of the jungle prevent it. It’s OK to have an idol and a goal but a realistic assessment of what’s going in on the world of animation is very important.”

Kimball knew what he was talking about. He had just witnessed the downsizing of theatrical animation, and saw the competing studio-run operations shut down one by one. The handwriting was on the wall at Disney. He ironically uses the phrase “untold capital”, but he knew that in 1972, Disney was changing too. They wouldn’t be producing as much animation as in the past. On his blog post, Will says that Kimball retired shortly after this letter was written.

But Kimball doesn’t come off as being the least bit angry or disappointed in this letter. He doesn’t bemoan the loss of what once was, he’s exuberant about where a passionate 15 year old could take animation in the future. He told Will to study the fundamentals of art and encouraged him to look beyond what Disney had done and consider the new ideas coming from Bakshi and Crumb. He advised developing a thirst for learning and figuring out how things work. And he summed it all up with the line, “A realistic assessment of what’s going on in the world of animation is very important.”

Beginning with “The Little Mermaid”, big studios dominated. Nickelodeon, Dreamworks, Sony, Cartoon Network, Netflix and Disney created their own cartoon factories and employed thousands of people. Now, one by one, just like in 1972, they are cutting back staff. Yesterday, Netflix announced further cutbacks and said that they would be focusing on content created by third party creators in the future. Many of my Facebook friends were bemoaning the layoffs and predicting doom and gloom. But as Kimball points out, it’s important to figure out “how it works” in the here and now.

The phrase “Third party creators” should be a reason to rejoice for all artists. The whole point of being an artist is to CREATE, not to comfortably do the same thing day after day for the rest of your life. Creation requires risks. Corporate studios are averse to taking risks. Put two and two together and read the press release for what it’s really saying to artists. Layoffs may be hard to manage today, but if you follow Kimball’s advice, they may be the best thing that every happened to you.

A job isn’t like your parents. It isn’t there to take care of you. As Kimball says, it’s “a problem of economics”. If you have “a realistic assessment of what’s going on in the world of animation”, you’ll discern the path to the future. Instead of focusing on pink slips and they way things were in the “golden” past, we should focus on the creative aspects… specifically we should engage in curiosity about all things… THINK! THINK! THINK! and consider different approaches that may not fit the formula of our “idols and goals”.

In short, you need to be an artist, not a cog in a corporate wheel. You might be able to be comfortable in a job for a while, but it isn’t going to last forever. The world changes and evolves and you have to change and evolve with it. Instead of being devoted to a job title, specific technology or studio, be devoted to your art form. Focus on creative curiosity and look for the opportunities that come with change and you will be able to accomplish great things even in the downturns. In fact, the downturns may turn into great opportunities for you as an artist.

Back To School Days At Animation Resources

Student Membership Drive

Fall is time to join Animation Resources as a student member. Annual dues for full time students and educators is discounted. It’s the biggest bargain in animation at only $70 a year. Animation School is great, but it doesn’t give you everything you need to become a professional animator. You need to invest in self-study to be successful in this highly competitive field. That’s exactly what Animation Resources can help you do if you become a member. Each day we’ll be highlighting more reasons why you should join Animation Resources. Bookmark us and check back every day.

There’s no better way to feed your creativity than to be a member of Animation Resources. Every other month, we share a Reference Pack that is chock full of downloadable e-books and still framable videos designed to expand your horizons and blow your mind, as well as educational podcasts and seminars. It’s easy to join. Just click on this link and you can sign up right now online.



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October 14th, 2024

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STUDENT MEMBERSHIP: Free Samples!

Student Membership Drive

Right now, it’s Back To School time at Animation Resources, and for the next two weeks we will be sharing reasons why students and educators should be a member of our important project. There is no better way to feed your creativity than to be a member of Animation Resources. Every other month, we share a Reference Pack that is chock full of downloadable e-books and still framable videos designed to expand your horizons and blow your mind. It’s easy to join. Just click on this link and you can sign up right now online…


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This sample Reference Pack is designed to give you an idea of what Animation Resources has to offer its members. By the end of the year, our members will have been able to access downloads of SIX E-BOOKS totaling over a thousand pages of incredible high resolution scans, and over FIVE HOURS of rare cartoons. Membership rates are just $85 annually for General Membership, and $70 a year for full time students and educators. It’s the greatest bargain in animation. You’ll be inspired and learn too!

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Over the past decade, Animation Resources has shared over 50 Reference Packs with our members. We have assembled two e-books and two video podcasts highlighting a few of the treasures our members have been able to download. During Back To School Days, we will be sharing these e-books and podcasts with the general public. We hope they inspire you to join us and be a part of building the foundation for the future of animation.

PDF E-BOOKS:
Best of 25

Best of The E-Books
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A Sampler of the First 10 Years of RefPack E-Books

The creative world of animation has its roots in the art of cartooning, and the history of cartooning extends back centuries. Over the past decade, Animation Resources’ e-books have included thousands of pages of classic cartooning, illustration and art instruction, ranging from 16th century woodblocks to newspaper comics from the 1920s, to powerful political cartoons from around the world, to complete courses teaching the fundamentals of cartooning and caricature… all designed to broaden the horizons of both professional and student artists.

This pair of e-books gather together some of the highlights from the first 50 members only e-books. It is provided to the general public to give prospective members an idea of what they will receive when they join. Members and volunteers are the lifeblood of our organization and we appreciate everything that the hundreds of people who have contrinuted to our efforts have accomplished. These e-books are dedicated to them.

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Sampler Reels of the First 10 Years of RefPack Animation Videos

Some people are under the mistaken impression that animation is a genre, best suited for children’s cartoons. They think that specific established styles and techniques are the only way cartoons should look. It’s easy even for animators to fall into the trap of making cartoons that look just like all the other cartoons on TV and in theaters. But Animation Resources encourages film makers to think of animation as a medium, capable of breaking new ground by doing innovative and great things. We encourage our members to think outside the box by sharing unique examples of powerful animated film making that exploit the best aspects of the medium.

In the past decade of Reference Packs, Animation Resources members have had an opportunity to see rarely seen films of all types, from century old silent shorts, to stop motion puppet films, animation from China, Poland, Japan and Russia; animated commercials from the early 1950s; classic theatrical cartoons; experimental animation and rare industrial training films… Our intent is not to bring back a “golden age” of animation. We encourage artists to build on the past as a foundation for surpassing it.

This pair of reels gather together some clips of the highlights from the first 50 members only Reference Packs. They are provided to the general public to give prospective members an idea of what they will receive when they join.

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With every Reference Pack, we’ll be including a bonus video or e-book from one of our past Reference Packs. This time we are sharing a book and two rare wartime training films!

PDF E-BOOK:
Plastic Man

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Issues Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (1943)

Jack Cole’s “Plastic Man” debuted in Police Comics in 1941 and was an immediate hit. Cole’s offbeat humor and Plastic Man’s ability to take any shape gave the cartoonist the opportunities to experiment with text and graphics in groundbreaking manner, helping to define the medium’s vocabulary, and making the idiosyncratic character one of the few enduring classics from the Golden Age to modern times. Plastic Man gained his own title in 1943.

This PDF e-book contains the first three issues of Plastic Man comics and includes a biography of Jack Cole. It is optimized for display on the iPad or printing two up with a cover on 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper.

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Private Snafu Gas

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Army/Navy Screen Magazine (1944)

The Private Snafu training cartoons were produced by Warner Bros for the War Department during WWII. “Gas”, which deals with the importance of having an operating gas mask handy, was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Ted “Dr Seuss” Geisel. The voices were by Mel Blanc and Billy Bletcher.

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Van Beuren Circus Capers

Aesop’s Fables: Circus Capers
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Van Beuren Studios (1930)

Disney admitted that in the 1920s, his goal was to produce cartoons as good as the Aesops Fables series. However after the Fables introduced a boy and girl mouse that bore a strong resemblance to Mickey and Minnie, Disney filed suit and had the cartoons pulled from theaters. This cartoon is one of the most blatant Mickey ripoffs, and one of the funniest.

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October 3rd, 2024

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RefPack059: A Varied Collection Of Material To Inspire And Inform

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Every other month, Animation Resources shares a new Reference Pack with its members. They consist of e-books packed with high resolution scans video downloads of rare animated films set up for still frame study, as well as podcasts and documentaries— all designed to help you become a better artist. Make sure you download this Reference Pack before it’s updated. When it’s gone, it’s gone!


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The latest Animation Resources Reference Pack has been uploaded to the server. Here’s a quick overview of what you’ll find when you log in to the members only page…

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Ollie Harrington

Ollie Harrington’s Bootsie
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Ollie Harrington was described by writer Langston Hughes as "America’s greatest African-American cartoonist". Harrington became a well known figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1930s largely due to his single panel cartoons for the Amsterdam News under the title, "Dark Laughter". The cartoon featured a character named Bootsie that Harrington described as "a well-fed but soulful character". Bootsie was a typical African American man dealing with life in Harlem. The cartoon often dealt with issues of racial inequality, segregation and poverty.

Harrington’s work is forceful and hard hitting without being didactic. Instead, it’s brutally honest, showing both the good and bad of life as a black man living in pre-Civil Rights era America. His character, Bootsie never spoke out himself or commented on what was going on around him. Instead the people around him revealed themselves by the way that they perceived him. I think you’ll find that a lot of the issues raised in these old cartoons are still a relevant part of our modern lives.

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Jay Ward Commercials

Jay Ward Commercial Reels
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Quisp & Quake / King Vitamin & The Waffle Whiffer

When I was working with Bill Scott at ASIFA, we chatted about his career a bit. He was a storyboard artist at Warner Bros. and U.P.A, and he was a "jack of all trades" at Jay Ward Studios, producing, directing, writing and voicing characters. I asked him what was the most fun to work on, and he admitted that most people know him for his work on The Bullwinkle Show and George of the Jungle, but he enjoyed working on commercials the best of all. They had far fewer limitations due to budget or schedule. The work could all be done in-house. And every one was different.

As you watch these commercials featuring Quisp & Quake, King Vitamin and Wallace The Waffle Whiffer, take note of the format of these spots. They are quite different than most commercials today. They’re structured as little cartoons with a setup of a situation, a brief product shot acting as a commercial within the commercial, and a resolution of the story. The audience watches the commercials the same way they watch the shows they accompany. No one can tune them out, because they are self-contained and entertaining on their own. Cartoon commercials may just be the most delightful form of animation.


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Bruno Bozetto

West And Soda
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Bruno Bozzetto / Italy / 1965
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Bruno Bozzetto is an Italian animator known for his parody of Fantasia titled Allegro Non Troppo. His other feature films include a superhero parody called VIP My Brother Superman and a spaghetti western parody titled West And Soda. Bozzetto’s work is often satirical and political in nature, championing the common man and lampooning government inefficiency and oppression.

In 1965, Bozzetto released a parody of American Westerns titled, West And Soda. It was thought at the time to be a parody of Sergio Leone’s A Fistful Of Dollars which had been released the year before. But in fact, Bozzetto had begun production of this film before Leone started work on his movie, which means that West And Soda has a claim for being the first "Spaghetti Western".

Animation Resources Board Member, David Eisman has provided subtitles for this film, so I won’t take up space with a synopsis. I’ll just say that Bozzetto’s style is appealing and efficient, making him one of the most interesting independent animators of the 1960s.

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Polish Experimental Animation

The Eye & The Ear
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F. & M. Themerson / Polish Film Unit / 1945

Stefan and Franciszka Themerson were Polish experimental film makers who worked in both Poland and England from 1930 to 1945. They produced just seven films. The first five were destroyed by the Nazis when they invaded Poland. The last two were made in London, and we are sharing one of those with you in the current Reference Pack.

Most students of experimental film are familiar with the work of Norman McLaren, Len Lye and Oskar Fischinger, but few know much about the Themersons. This is certainly due to the loss of the early work. In this film, however, the approach is quite different than those other film makers’ approach to visualizing music. While McLaren, Lye and Fischinger created abstract forms and motion to depict the moods and rhythms of the music, the Themersons used shapes to represent the musical structure, particularly in the second and third parts. Look closely and you will see that the shapes and movement of the elements on the screen directly relate to the melodic line, the voice, and the instrumentation of the music.

There are many lessons to be learned from experimental animation, even if you work in more figurative styles. It’s important to think about the relationship of sound and image. Too often images simply follow the dialogue without expanding upon it, and allow music to be treated as wallpaper behind the action. Animation isn’t just "drawings that move". It’s the simultaneous expression of sight and sound.


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Professor Balthazar

Professor Balthazar in “The Flying Fabian”
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Zlatko Grgic / Zagreb Films, Croatia / 1968

In a previous Reference Pack we featured several Maxi-Cat mini-cartoons by Zlatko Grgic, a Croatian animator who later emigrated to Canada to join the Canadian Film Board.

Grgic is best known for his series of cartoons featuring the character Professor Balthazar, an old man who solves problems for his friends by creating inventions with a magical machine. Produced between 1967 and 1973, the series ran all over the world. Its silent pantomime with voice over narration made it easy to translate to other countries. It aired everywhere from New Zealand to Romania to Zimbabwe. In the United States it was featured on Chuck Jones’ television program, Curiosity Shop.

Altogether there were 59 episodes of Professor Balthazar produced between 1969 and 1978. We will be sharing more with you in upcoming Reference Packs.

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Dororo

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Gisaburou Sugii & Osamu Dezaki / Mushi Production / Japan / 1969

Dororo began as a serialized manga published in Weekly Shonen Sunday. Created by Osamu Tezuka, it told the story of a severely handicapped Samurai named Hyakkimaru and a child thief named Dororo who follows him on his journeys. The story ran for a year in 1967 to 1968 before being cancelled. The ending was finally published in a magazine called Bokeno the following year. But that came too late for the production of the animated version. The animators had to come up with their own ending to the story.

We are presenting the first two episodes of the television adaptation from 1969 which present the origin story. I think you will be impressed by the quality of the design and draftsmanship, even though the animation itself is simple and bare bones. Dororo is particularly successful at using backgrounds to establish mood and in its ability to put across specific personalities through posing and walk cycles. The music is striking as well, composed by electronic music pioneer, Isao Tomita. This series is important to the history of early anime on television, because it tells a complex and mature story whose influence can be seen in later Japanese animated features.


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Charles Ives

Charles Ives’ America
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Joseph Horowitz and Peter Bagdonoff / 2021
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The other day on Facebook, I read a post that stated, "American" is not an ethnic identity. I kept thinking about that comment all day long. Certainly American culture is so pervasive, elements of it exist in just about every country in the world. But when we are immersed in our own ethnic culture, we don’t see it at all. Drop a typical American into the daily life in Bora-Bora or the Steppes of Central Asia and our American ethnicity would become painfully clear. Ethnic identities only become visible in contrast with other ethnic identities.

In this Reference Pack, we are sharing a documentary about a classical composer who has been described as quintessentially American… Charles Ives. His is a fascinating story that few people are familiar with, but surely resonates with all American creative artists… Charles Ives. Ives was arguably one of the most important American composers, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1947, but his music was unknown to the public until he was retired from creating music for two decades. It’s a truly amazing story of artistic integrity under the most adverse of conditions.

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Animated Discussions Podcast

Alan Foreman Interview
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NewNewAlan Foreman is an Emmy Award winning producer, director, storyboard artist, and animator with over 23 years of experience at studios like Nickelodeon, Adult Swim, PBS, Sesame Workshop, Buck, Psyop, and TED Ed. In addition, his personal work has screened in film festivals across the globe and earned him development deals with both Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. He currently works as a supervising director at Netflix Series Animation. Listen to Alan talk all about storyboarding, directing, and his creative process in the latest episode of Animated Discussions!

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REFPACK028: June / July 2019

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Esquire

Esquire Magazine
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Cartoon Annual Volume 3 (1937)

Esquire was the leading "gentleman’s magazine" of its day. Great writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemmingway wrote for the magazine, and the Esquire staff included a stable of illustrators and cartoonists that represented the best in the field. Even though it was founded in the height of the depression, the publishers spared no expense to produce a first class product.

In 1937, the staff of Esquire prepared a prototype copy of a proposed cartoon annual containing the best cartoons from the first few years of the magazine’s publication. However before the book could be printed, the project was cancelled and the prototype was put on the shelf. Twenty years later, they finally did publish a book honoring the great work of the Esquire art staff, but it was a much different selection of cartoons. Animation Resources was given access to the one-of-a-kind prototype of the 1937 book, and we have been sharing it with our members. This is the third and final volume. We hope you find it to be useful.

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Tune In Tomorrow

“Tune In Tomorrow”
UPA / 1954

Industrial films are fascinating time capsules charting the evolution of style in animation. Since their budgets were limited, they often leaned on clever and eye catching design to make an impact on an audience, rather than complex movement. This particular film is no exception. It’s loaded with eye popping modern design and bold color. The film’s purpose is to promote CBS Radio Network, and it was made in 1954 just as television was beginning to replace radio as America’s “electronic hearth”.

Films like this were ephemeral by design. They served a purpose in a particular time and place, and after that time had passed, they were disposed of. We are very fortunate that Advisory Board Member Steve Stanchfield uncovers these lost jewels and shares them with us.

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Spider And The Tulip

Kumo To Tulip
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Kenzo Masaoka / 1943

"Kumo To Tulip" was made by Kenzo Masaoka during World War II. Masaoka is regarded as one of the pioneers of Japanese animation, having directed the first Japanese sound cartoon in 1933. During his twenty year career, he directed over two dozen animated films, mostly based on fables and folklore. "Kumo To Tulip" was his masterpiece, exhibiting skillful technical effects as well as solid personality animation.

Of particular note is the beautiful effects animation- wind, rain, fire and smoke- all done in a unique, keenly observed style. The contrast in the way the spider and the ladybug move is also impressive. If you look carefully, you’ll see that the backgrounds incorporate photographs and there are several very long camera moves that must have necessitated match cuts or dissolves to accomplish. The film evokes a gentle mood, quite contrary to the spirit of other Wartime films.

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Animation Resources has been sharing treasures from the Animation Archive with its members for over a decade. Every other month, our members get access to a downloadable Reference Pack, full of information, inspiration and animation. The RefPacks consist of e-books jam packed with high resolution scans of great art, still framable animated films from around the world, documentaries, podcasts, seminars and MORE! The best part is that all of this material has been selected and curated by our Board of professionals to aid you in your self study. Our goal is to help you be a greater artist. Why wouldn’t you want to be a member of a group like that?

Membership comes in three levels. General Members get access to a bi-monthly Reference Pack as well as a Bonus RefPack from past offerings in the in-between months. We offer a discounted Student Membership for full time students and educators. And if you want to try out being a member, there is a Quarterly Membership that runs for three months.


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