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October 26th, 2020

OCT 31: Discord Discussion- Honore Daumier, the Great French Cartoonist

Animation Resources is hosting monthly Discord parties on its Discord server. Join us the last Saturday of every month to participate in discussions and network with fellow artists from all over the world. The party starts at 4:30 pm (PDT) and the program begins at 5:30 pm.

THIS MONTH’S PROGRAM

Honore Daumier

Our schedule of monthly programs under the banner Discord Discussions continues this Saturday October 31st!

Honoré Daumier is one of the greatest caricaturists and political satirists of all time. Born in Marseille, France in the early 1800s, Daumier’s drawings, paintings, sculptures, and lithographs influenced not only other artists, but society as a whole. Like most of us today, Daumier believed in a Democratic ideal. You can find a lot of parallels between his satire of 19th century France and modern-day politics. Join Animation Resources President Stephen Worth and Board Member Davey Jarrell on Discord this Saturday, October 31st as they discuss the history of Daumier’s work and his impact on society.

Join us Saturday for an informal discussion of a cartoonist who is probably someone you probably don’t know, but you should! Find out how wide the world of cartooning is! Have fun meeting other like-minded folks!

HONORE DAUMIER: A DISCUSSION

At The Animation Resources Discord Server
SATURDAY OCTOBER 31st, 2020 5:30 pm (PDT)
HOSTED BY DAVEY JARELL, WITH STEPHEN WORTH

Animation Resources is one of the best kept secrets in the world of cartooning. Every month, we sponsor a program of interest to artists, and every other month, we share a book and up to an hour of rare animation with our members. If you are a creative person interested in the fields of animation, cartooning or illustration, you should be a member of Animation Resources!

ABOUT YOUR HOSTS

Davey Jarell is a member of the Board of Directors of Animation Resources. He is a professional storyboard artist for television and acts as our Director of Programs. Stephen Worth has been working in animation as a producer for 35 years. He is the President of Animation Resources.

ABOUT DISCORD

Discord is a free chat app that supports video, voice chat and text chat. Discord servers are divided into channels, which all have their own subject or theme of discussion. Members are assigned roles which helps everyone keep track of who’s who. The Animation Resources Discord channel is a virtual meeting place for our supporters. You can meet other Animation Resources members, talk with the people behind the scenes at our organization, and attend lectures and screenings— all without leaving your home. It’s free and open to everyone in the creative community. If you’d like more info on how Discord works, see this article: What is Discord?

Here’s how to install the Discord app and login to the Animation Resources Discord Server:

1. INSTALL DISCORD

iPhone or Android: Download the app from the App Store or Google Play Store and install.
Desktop: You can access Discord for your Mac or PC from discordapp.com. You can choose to download and install the free Discord app, or enter our channel directly using your web browser.

2. CREATE AN ACCOUNT

Just follow the prompts to create your own login account.

3. JOIN THE ANIMATION RESOURCES CHANNEL

Click the plus sign to the right of the app and select "JOIN A SERVER".
Enter this invite code: vES5YsV

4. YOU’RE THERE!

Take a moment to look around, read the rules and introduce yourself.

The Animation Resources Discord Server is open to the public right now. Pop in and look around, and make a point to visit on Saturday!

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Posted by Stephen Worth @ 10:40 am

October 9th, 2020

REFPACK036: One Of UPA’s Earliest Films

REFPACK 036

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Every other month, members of Animation Resources are given access to an exclusive Members Only Reference Pack. These downloadable files are high resolution e-books on a variety of educational subjects and rare cartoons from the collection of Animation Resources in DVD quality. Our current Reference Pack has just been released. If you are a member, click through the link to access the MEMBERS ONLY DOWNLOAD PAGE. If you aren’t a member yet, please JOIN ANIMATION RESOURCES. It’s well worth it.

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Brotherhood of Man

UPA / Bobe Cannon / 1945

Recent current events have inspired many cartoonists and animators who haven’t engaged in political cartooning before to start applying their talents to help change the world for the better. Obviously, that is a huge undertaking… much more difficult than just putting across simple characters and situations. How do you go about tackling an issue of monumental importance with small budget animation? The cartoon we are sharing today proves that perhaps the best way to approach complex issues is with simple animation.

In 1943, Zack Schwartz, David Hilberman and Stephen Bosustow formed a company called Industrial Film and Poster Service (later known as United Productions of America). Their first client was the United Auto Workers, and they were contracted to create industrial films to be shown to UAW members. The first film they produced was Hell-Bent For Election, which was directed by Chuck Jones in 1944. The film promoted the re-election of Franklin Roosevelt, and it was very successful. The following year, work began on Brotherhood of Man, directed by Bobe Cannon.

Brotherhood Of Man was designed to promote racial tolerance and co-operation. The arguments used in the film derive from a pamphlet distributed in the mid 1940s by a New York organization called Public Affairs Committee. During World War II, the military had established integrated units for the first time, and Black, Asian and Native American soldiers had distinguished themselves in service to the country. Segregation was beginning to crumble, so an effort was made to begin taking the first steps towards equality on the home front. This was a subject that had never been addressed in an animated film before.

This film was revolutionary from a graphic standpoint as well. It employed a totally new design aesthetic. Simple, stylized characters and backgrounds based on line and solid shapes of bold color were employed, rather than rendered volumetric forms with realistic perspective. This style of artwork had become popular in magazine cartooning- Virgil Partch, Henry Syverson and Sam Cobean had all worked at Disney before the strike, and had built careers by pioneering a clear, simplified style at Colliers, The Saturday Evening Post and The New Yorker. But stylistically, most animated films in the mid-1940s were still following Disney’s lead.

Bobe Cannon had animated on Chuck Jones’s The Dover Boys which experimented with stylized designs and graphic simplicity, as well as Hell-Bent For Election. He wanted to try taking it even further with Brotherhood Of Man. Along with a story team that included John Hubley, Ring Lardner Jr. and Phil Eastman, and animators Ken Harris and Ben Washam, Cannon established the house style for UPA that would dominate for the rest of its existence.

One of the core precepts of political cartooning is boiling an issue down to a clear, simple image. When a person sees a strong, direct statement visually, it defuses counter arguments, and makes the viewer understand the point immediately. Trying to convince people with words isn’t like that… you have points and counter-points, rhetorical arguments and digressions that cloud the issue. A simple image is much harder to refute than words. Cannon’s simple designs boil these difficult concepts down into a basic, universal symbol of humanity. The drawing style alone succeeds in putting across the point of the film before the characters even speak.

We hope this film gives you ideas of how to put your own cartooning skills to use to enrich and educate. Many thanks to Animation Resources’ Advisory Board member, Steve Stanchfield of Thunderbean Animation for sharing this important film with us.

REFPACK036: Brotherhood of Man (1946)

MP4 Video File / SD / 10:36 / 125 MB Download

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Posted by Stephen Worth @ 12:00 pm

October 4th, 2020

RefPack036: Using Animation To Inform And Better The World

Every other month, Animation Resources shares a new Reference Pack with its members. They consist of an e-book packed with high resolution scans and video downloads set up for still frame study. Make sure you download the Reference Packs before they’re updated. When it’s gone, it’s gone!

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Animation Resources has just posted its 36th RefPack! This time, all of our offerings follow the theme of educating and enlightening the world. First of all, we are sharing a rare edition of caricatures by Honoré Daumier, arguably the greatest caricaturist who ever lived. Daumier has been called "The Michelangelo of Caricature" and when you see his work, we think you will agree. He lived in one of the most important periods of human civilization, the decades following the French Revolution. He fought tirelessly for liberty and freedom of speech. Many cartoonists today who have never spoken out before are inspired to create satirical cartoons to comment on the political turmoil of our own times. Daumier is a shining example of the power and responsibility that cartoonists wield in society.

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And that is just the beginning… In RefPack036 we are also sharing one of the most important films in the history of modern animation, Bobe Cannon’s "The Brotherhood of Man". This film, designed to be shown to members of the United Auto Workers, was designed to promote racial tolerance and co-operation. During World War II, the military had established integrated units for the first time, and Black, Asian and Native American soldiers had distinguished themselves in service to the country. Segregation was beginning to crumble, so an effort was made to begin taking the first steps towards equality on the home front. This was a subject that had never been addressed in an animated film before. This film was revolutionary from a graphic standpoint as well. It employed a totally new design aesthetic. Simple, stylized characters and backgrounds based on line and solid shapes of bold color were employed, rather than rendered volumetric forms with realistic perspective. Babe Cannon established the house style for UPA that would dominate for the rest of its existence.

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Animation is not only an entertainment medium, it can also educate. When educational films are overly didactic and dense with content, they often fail to get the ideas across. But animation engages the audience and presents information in a clear symbolic way that remains in the mind long after the film is over. RefPack036 also includes a series of cartoons produced by the Disney Studios to educate school age children on the subject of physiology. Titled "You Are A Human Animal", these films point out the differences between humankind and the animal kingdom, the five senses, eyesight, nutrition, the systems of the body, hearing, the sense of touch, and smelling and tasting. The limited animation techniques employed in these films are directly applicable to modern internet animation, and the appealing imagery and color shows how careful design and compositional planning can make a film look simple and appealing.

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Our bonus download this month is a pair of WWII training films from the collection of Paul Fennell. In a previous Reference Pack, we presented a film called "Night Battle", produced by the First Motion Picture Unit to train sailors in the Navy about strategic operations in the Pacific. This time we include a film called "Presenting Rear Admiral A. S. Merrill USN”, which appears to be a truncated version of the earlier film. Also included in this month’s Reference Pack is a training film on the battle of Okinawa, which includes some impeccably designed map graphics by John Hubley that trace the details of the Allied forces’ success there.

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At Animation Resources, our Advisory Board includes great artists and animators like Ralph Bakshi, Will Finn, J.J. Sedelmaier and Sherm Cohen. They’ve let us know the things that they use in their own self study so we can share them with you. That’s experience you just can’t find anywhere else. The most important information isn’t what you already know… It’s the information you should know about, but don’t know yet. We bring that to you every other month.

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Posted by Stephen Worth @ 12:27 pm