Published between 1982 and 1995
Not too surprisingly, the evil characters are far more interesting than the good ones, and the nasties in The Black Cauldron are the most gruesome to appear in any Disney movie since Fantasia. Especially grotesque is the cauldron-born army of skeletal warriors which come to life dripping rather more slime and gore than one normally … Read more
After 40 years in the animation business Arthur Humberstone is still going strong. He was involved with the feature films Animal Farm, The Yellow Submarine, Watership Down and The Plague Dogs. David Jefferson went along to Arthur’s home studio to find out more about his approach to animation. I first met Arthur Humberstone in 1977 … Read more
Arthur went on to become a valued member of the G.B. Animation Unit and when the studio closed, ex-Disney animator, David Hand presented Arthur with a personally signed photograph of Walt Disney, which is a very rare and treasured item. He went back to Derby and took a job as a newspaper cartoonist and his … Read more
Top: The unit of Watership Down. Bottom: Watership Down model sheets. page 1 | page 2 | page 3| page 4 | page 5
The Plague Dogs – a Martin Rosen Production. page 1 | page 2 | page 3| page 4 | page 5
When Martin Rosen, the producer of Watership Down, set up The Plague Dogs Arthur was again called upon to work as a senior animator. (George Jackson and Tony Guy also shared the same credit) This time he had to go to San Francisco. Says Arthur, ‘When we went to the States we thought we would … Read more
Cohn Pain tells how the film Animation My Way encouraged him to try his hand at cartoon animation. This led to his recent production about sub-standard housing. I bought my first cine camera when my first son was born 27 years ago. It was not until I joined the Whitehall Cine Society that I really … Read more
The story of a mortal’s dream struggle with the gods was Paul Hanson’s choice for his first amateur animated film. Three years, 1800 cels and 50 background paintings later he had a 14 minute film with lip sync and a multitude of special effects. Paul tells us how he did it. The majority of amateur … Read more
Following this encouraging news I set about designing the title sequence, it was to last the length of the first part of the lyrics in the song. I wanted to attract the attention of the audience even before the first image hit the screen, I decided to begin the film with the phrase “Prepare to … Read more
The making of Dreamscape did not go without its disasters. 25 feet of film (and countless hours) were wasted when I left the camera’s built-in daylight filter in place. Another 50 feet were wasted when the camera jammed and another 25 feet when the peg bar was showing at the top of the frame due … Read more