Animator. Autumn 1984. Issue number 10. Front cover illustration: Character model sheet for “Dick Deadeye or Duty Done” drawn by Ronald Searle. Top: Dick Deadeye. Bottom: Little Buttercup.
#10 Autumn 1984
The Art Babbitt Classical Animation Course
Introduction The Richard Williams Animation studio in London has now won a grand total of 212 International Awards, mostly for their TV commercials, but Williams wants his 40 artists and […]
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The pressures of “time” and “economics” have so bastardized the medium, we have even forgotten how to stumble. The generation of fine animators spawned at Disney’s in the 1930 -1940 […]
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The Course Objectives The secondary purpose of this course is to endow its members with some proven animation formulas that will help them earn a better living, sooner. The clichés […]
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The use of live action as a source of information for animators brings me to Eadweard Muybridge. He set up a series of matching cameras, in a row. These cameras […]
Art Babbitt by Richard Williams
One of the great artist-animators from the golden years of the Disney Studios, Art Babbitt, is at the Richard Williams Studio in London running an animation course. Richard Williams paints […]
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When he taught in our studio he insisted that people take the course. He started off by saying: “Please, in my lectures, do not be British. Be crude, be revolting; […]
Siriol and SuperTed
In just three years Siriol Animation has grown into one of Britain’s largest animation studios. Frank Baker looks at their background. Siriol Animation was set up in 1982 to make […]
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SuperTed’s creator, Mike Young, is an executive producer on the series as well as looking after the merchandising side of SuperTed. He also wrote the original SuperTed books. The scripts […]
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SuperTed A series of 12 episodes, first shown on 540 in 1982 then on BBC television in 1983. Made by Siriol Animation Ltd Produced by Roger Ficking Executive Producer and creator […]
The Shadows Move – the 1970s
In part 7 Ken Clark concludes his history of British animation. The first Cambridge Animation Festival was staged on a shoe-string budget one long weekend in November 1967. The event […]
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Names other than the familiar Halas & Batchelor rose to the fore, though to be fair, H & B were the first to make an animated series for TV. In […]
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Arthur Humberstone‘s rotoscoped rabbit guide to animation for ‘Watership Down’ page 1 | page 2 | page 3| page 4
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“John Hubley started the film as director, and we did an hour of the film which was not usable. An hour! I can tell you that was deadly. You see, […]
How to be a Racing Driver
By David Coleman “You’re going to give a talk on animation at my school next Friday.” “Eh? What?” “Well I told the head¬mistress you would, so that’s that. There are […]
Channel 4 Logo
The Channel 4 logo is a familiar sight to channel 4 viewers. John Halas tells the fascinating story of how it came into being. Nobody would deny the usefulness of a […]
Channel 4 Logo – Page 2
The on screen sequence of the Channel 4 Logo. The 4 explodes and then reforms. page 1 | page 2 Printed in Animator’s newsletter Issue 10 (Autumn 1984)
Richard Taylor’s Swimsong
By Ken Clark and Richard Taylor In the last edition of Animator (No. 9) I gave the impression that the credit for the Barclays Bank cartoons made at the Larkins […]
Richard Taylor’s Swimsong – Page 2
The animator’s pencil drawings from Richard Taylor’s film Swimsong. In the finished film no outline was used. page 1 | page 2 Printed in Animator’s newsletter Issue 10 (Autumn 1984)
Animation Workshops with Young People
Jessica Langford runs an animation workshop in Edinburgh and much of her work involves contact with the local schools. She gives us the benefit of her experience. Animation is one […]
Lip Synch Cut-outs
Fred Wells tells us of his simple method of adding mouth movements to cut-out animation. My knowledgeable friend (we all have one) then suggested that I might find lip synch. […]
Christmas for Sale
Film student lain McCall tells us of a film he made on the animation course at Liverpool Polytechnic. For the last two years, I have been involved with the many […]
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Frame enlargements from Christmas for Sale. Original drawings were pencil on paper and then filmed on 16mm negative stock so that the projected picture is white lines on a black […]
Animated Sketch Book – Animals moving
By Ian Witworth of Cosgrove-Hall Animation. Animals moving have a definite pattern to the order in which they move their legs. Study the dog walking – when the front left […]