Michael Sporn Animation – Splog

- This is part 4 of 4 of the Rowland B. Wilson book, Whites of Their Eyes. You can find the other three parts here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

The book was scanned and sent to me by Bill Peckmann, and, of course, he’s the one to thank for this great material from this 1962 book. Here are the final images from the book, and boy are they good.

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Bill Peckmann sent me the following note with the scans:

For all fans and friends of Rowland B. Wilson, I just want to give Suzanne Lemieux Wilson a big standing ‘O’ and a shout out of our appreciation for authoring the very soon to be released book ‘Rowland B. Wilson’s Trade Secrets, Notes On Cartooning & Animation‘. Without her diligence and heavy lifting of putting this book together, we would never have seen this wonderful collection of RBW art in print form, plus the added topper of actually finding out Rowland’s thoughts and reasoning that went into producing the art that we’ve come to know and love. Suzanne, again, many, many thanks!

Here’s a little photo trip down memory lane with Suzanne and Rowland.

(England 1973.)

England 1973

England 1974

Belgium 1974

Connecticut 1981

Moving Day 1982

California 1984

- I’ve been posting a number of drawings from commercials that Vince Caffarelli worked on. He saved many of the drawings, which are mostly Models and Layouts from these spots. Many of the older ones can’t be identified as to which studio they came from. The more recent drawings (1970 up) can be.

This first lare group of drawings can be classified as work from Perpetual Motion. They were drawn by Wayne Becker as Layouts and models for a Meow Mix commercial. Wayne worked in New York for many years predominantly doing Layout for many of the studios. His style, as you can see, is very tight.

The first drawings from Scene 1 are missing. This is #08.

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This starts Scene 02. Oddly this is a photostatic copy of drawing #01.
All the other drawings are pencil on animation paper.

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This is an alternate version of Sc 2 – #06

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Perhaps they changed the ending.

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Here’s a QT movie of the spot when finished.

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For a lively change of pace, here are two caricatures drawn by Marty Taras of Vince Cafarelli and Pablo Ferro. The two were inseparably close friends at Paramount where these drawings were probably made. Marty, of course, was one of the mainstays in New York, workinig at Terrytoons and Paramount, where he was the man behind Baby Huey.

Vincent Cafarelli

Pablo Ferro

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Finally, here are some drawings done by Dolores Cannata when “Buzzco.” was formed after “Perpetual Animation” had folded. Dolores was the daughter of George Cannata Sr. and the sister of George Cannata Jr. I met her very briefly when I was first starting out and making the rounds of the studios. My appointment was with George Jr. who liked my drawings and advised me not to be an animator but a designer.

She was a gifted designer; that’s for sure.