Animator. Spring 1988. Issue number 22. Front cover illustration: Character drawn by Oscar Grillo. Printed in Animator Issue 22 (Spring 1988)
#22 Spring 1988
The Bristol Animation Festival 1987 – Page 2
The person speaking on the public address system took great delight in announcing the performance of ‘Wayward Girls and Wicked Women’. This aptly titled programme paid tribute to the few […]
The Great Animation Debate
A debate about merchandising based on children’s animated television programmes took place at the Bristol Animation Festival. Report from David Jefferson. We have seen more print spilled about children’s animated […]
The Great Animation Debate – Page 2
Sue Crockford drew a parallel between animation and drama which is also very difficult to fund. “Channel 4 has been working with six European countries to set up co-productions, specifically […]
Owning part of your dream – collecting animation art
Father Robert Murphy tells of his interest in collecting animation art. Like so many Americans of my generation (I was born in 1948), my introduction to animation came from television. […]
Owning part of your dream – collecting animation art – Page 2
As the interest in animation art grew, many small dealers sprang up across the country to compete with the pricey auctions and the “official” Disney-licensed art galleries. For a while […]
Stowaways on the Ark
Very little animation has been produced in Germany in the past. Now that is changing with the production of a feature length cartoon. Harald Kraut, one of the animators, gives […]
Stowaways on the Ark – Page 2
But special effects alone do not make a good film, therefore we have fine animators as well. First and foremost we are glad to have the support of Harold Whitaker, […]
Stowaways on the Ark – Page 3
1. Clouds by Juan Japl. 2 – 6. Scenes from the film. 7. Background by Juan Japl. 8. First stages of Ark construction. Model built by Harald Kraut for live-action […]
The Best of British Animation programme
The Best of British Animation programme was part of the London Film Festival held at the National Film Theatre during November 1987. David Jefferson reports. The LFF is a non-competitive […]
Klacto – Oscar Grillo and Ted Rockley
The studio name Klactoveesedstene (Animations Ltd) was taken from the label of a Charlie Parker record. Why? You may ask. Well, why not! If you forget the name in full, […]
Klacto – Oscar Grillo and Ted Rockley – Page 2
It is probable that at the time of its introduction, the first Bugs Bunny cartoon could have been regarded as something quite revolutionary. Perhaps the phenomenon could only be fully […]
Klacto – Oscar Grillo and Ted Rockley – Page 3
“To live,” he said, “is one of the greatest arts one can practice because it is not easy. As human beings we continually inter-relate and in many cases the relationships […]
Klacto – Oscar Grillo and Ted Rockley – Page 4
An element of nostalgia creeps into the conversation at this point as he recalls the commercials he made in South America in which he animated children, not because he is […]
Klacto – Oscar Grillo and Ted Rockley – Page 5
“When I draw, I have to set standards for the narration of the image I am attempting to convey because narrative restricts visuals, which means that the drawing is always […]
Klacto – Oscar Grillo and Ted Rockley Page 6
In the summer of the year Ted left college, David Hargreaves (producer of DIYAS) took charge of the BBC Illiteracy project. The BBC produced several pilot programmes all using animated […]
Breakfast with a Blob
Paul Couvella entered two films in the recent ANIMA Festival, one was voted ‘best film’ by the audience and the other chosen by the guest speaker as ‘showing the most […]
Animating in Turkey
You really have to love your job to take all this punishment, writes Tahsin Ozaur from Istanbul. “Daha bitmedi mi?” (“Isn’t it finished yet?”) The gentleman wearing a suit, necktie, […]
Perspective for animators
In drawn animation one of the most difficult things to create is a sense of depth, with characters which are not flat shapes on a flat background but have the […]
Perspective for animators – Page 2
There are at least two ways to tackle drawing in perspective; the “architects approach” and the “artists approach”. The architect takes his floor plan and elevations of a building, makes […]
Perspective for animators – Page 3
You may have seen the computer generated workings of Big Ben in Disney’s Basil, the Great Mouse Detective. It was very impressive, but I would challenge the makers on the […]
Animated Pictures at an Exhibition
Pat Raine Webb takes a humorous look at an exhibition from the exhibitor’s angle. I recently had the dubious honour of representing ASIFA at a Video/Animation Show in London. I […]