Published between 1982 and 1995
DRAW, DRAW, DRAW Malcolm McGookin is an animator and a part-time cartoon strip artist. He offers some useful advice to the aspiring cartoonist. My Top Ten animated films Godfrey Jones tells us about his favourite animated films plus a few pet hates. Annecy Animated Film Festival 1987 The biannual International Animated Film Festival, held in … Read more
Animator. Autumn 1987. Issue number 20. Front cover illustration: Two characters from Girls Night Out by Joanna Quinn. This short cartoon film won three awards at Annecy ’87. Printed in Animator Issue 20 (Autumn 1987)
DRAW, DRAW, DRAW Malcolm McGookin is an animator and a part-time cartoon strip artist. He offers some useful advice to the aspiring cartoonist and comments on the state of the British cartoon market. The problem with cartooning is that you cannot go to college to learn jt. I don’t know if it is a unique … Read more
Godfrey Jones tells us about his favourite animated films plus a few pet hates. I enjoyed the article by Paul Thomas about his top ten shorts in (in Animator issue 19). May I give you my ten favourites? Two are on Paul’s list. However, I’ll start at the beginning. 1. Little Nemo – Windsor McCay. … Read more
The biannual International Animated Film Festival, held in June in Annecy, France, is regarded by many as the greatest animation show on earth. David Jefferson reports. Annecy ‘87 may become known as the year of the electronic invasion. Computer and video imagery were there in force, partly reflecting a change in the industry and partly … Read more
QUESTION: How did you come to make this film? JOANNA QUINN: I went to art college to study graphics and did animation most of the time I was there. I started Girls Night Out at college but it was unfinished when I left. It took a further two years to complete which means I worked … Read more
Q: The animation seems so realistic it could almost be done in live-action. Why did you choose to make it so realistic? PL: Strangely enough I did try to take it further away from reality. The figures are extreme, like Fellini, but somehow the end effect is curiously natural. One was as thin as a … Read more
Q: You make a reference to Bogart and Wells, a general reference to that kind of movement. AH: Most of the references are to Greed by Von Stroheim. The Dr. Matigue character is from Greed. The idea was to have the hunt and chase mixed up with Sierra Madre. Then, because the actor who was … Read more
It took 750 artists three years to produce Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Richard Holliss looks at the innovation that went on behind the scenes. Almost as legendary as the premiere itself of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was the reception it received from the celebrity audience. Hardened movie-moguls and their … Read more
“One of the problems we got into when we started Snow White”, remembered Walt, “was how to animate the girl. It was the first time we had gone in for realistic human beings and it was a tough nut to crack. It was easy to animate animals. The audience wasn’t familiar in the finer points … Read more