What can we learn about the animation industry from this photo of the animation crew from "Lord of the Rings"?
Add a CommentViewing: Blog Posts Tagged with: Irv Spence, Most Recent at Top [Help]
Results 1 - 2 of 2
Blog: Cartoon Brew (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Irv Spence, Alex Agnatiev, Art Vitello, Dale Baer, Hank Tucker, John Sparey, Lenord Robinson, Marty Taras, Animators, Ideas/Commentary, Lord of the Rings, Ralph Bakshi, Phil Roman, Bruce Woodside, Add a tag
Blog: Cartoon Brew (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Woolie Reitherman, Ken Harris, Carlo Vinci, Charles Nichols, Irv Spence, Norm Ferguson, Animators, Ward Kimball, Ollie Johnston, Fred Moore, Add a tag
Though the work that animators create is often exhilarating, the actual process of animating, which involves sitting at a desk for hours at a time, is not particularly interesting to the general public. In the past, when studio publicity departments were tasked with creating publicity stills of animators, they often posed animators making an expression in front of their mirror while drawing a character with a similar expression. The mirror, it turns out, was not just useful to the animator’s own process but also to the photographer who wanted to compose a dynamic image of the animator at work. It never occurred to me what a common motif this was until I collected a few of them on Instagram a few days ago. Looking at more recent publicity shots of 2D animators, especially from the 1980s and ’90s, the animator-making-an-expression-in-a-mirror publicity shot was largely phased out in favor of a more generic pose of an animator drawing at a desk, looking at the camera while drawing and flipping, or the unnatural pose of holding a maquette while drawing. Enjoy this collection of legendary animators hard at work creating some classic characters:
Add a Comment