Photos &SpornFilms 15 Feb 2009 09:03 am
Snark Photos
- I fell upon some photos I haven’t shared and thought I would. They were taken back in 1989 when we were in the last push to finish The Hunting of the Snark. All of the pictures seem to be posed since much of the art those coloring was done years before.
For much of the time this film was animated by me and then colored by me, in between projects. Then in 1989, with a small grant from AFI, I received enough to finish the film, and we rushed to the end. About a half dozen of us picked up the remaining coloring before we had to get into the next half hour show.
Bridget Thorne did the storyboard with me back in 1980. We didn’t finish the film
until 1989. She also painted the backgrounds for the last third of the movie.
Lisa Crafts inking a cel from the film. The cel comes from the,
first scenes of the film, so I actually did this one, myself.
(left) Lisa consults with the exposure sheets for a scene.
(right) This is one of the many backgrounds that Bridget painted.
Steve Dovas is coloring a scene that I actually did in the early days of
the film. The scene was done on a 3 field (very small artwork) looking
for the images to distort a bit when they were blown up. It’s one of my
favorite parts of the film.
Steve and Lisa sat alongside each other in that studio on
38th St & Fifth Ave. It was a great space.
A closer photo of Lisa at work on the Bellman.
Steve posing with some early artwork from the film.
I don’t know if these pictures were ever used for anything, but
I love all three of these guys and enjoy sharing these early pictures.
Thanks to Kit Hawkins who took all of these photos while working there.
She helped produce Santa Bear for me and ran my studio for a while.
on 15 Feb 2009 at 9:53 pm 1.Floyd Norman said …
Oh man, I love seeing artists at work on traditional media. Computers are cool, and all that, and I loved working at Pixar. However, it’s stuff like this that drew me to the animation business.
Computers can dazzle, and that’s cool. However this is real animation art, and that ain’t never gonna change.
on 15 Feb 2009 at 11:59 pm 2.David Nethery said …
Nice photos. I agree with Floyd Norman. Love seeing the pencils, markers, and traditional animation desks. Just seeing those photos I can still smell the Pantone and Prismacolor markers.
Nostalgia alert: In Photo 2, 3, and 6 I spot a Bob Heath (“Animation in 12 Hard Lessons) laminated particle board wooden animation disc ! Haven’t seen one of those in years . I still remember inbetweeening and animating all those 12 Hard Lessons … along with tracing everything out of the Preston Blair book and inbetweening those drawings too. Bob Heath ran a camera service where you could send in your drawings and X-sheets and get back a 16 mm or 35mm pencil test (I think they shot color , too, but I never went beyond pencil tests).
Does anyone else remember that company ? They were in Miami , Florida.
on 05 Apr 2009 at 2:20 am 3.Bryan said …
I knew Bob Heath personally. He was actually my Grandmothers boyfriend. I used to work for Bob when he had a studio in Tampa. The last I saw of him he was living in Zephyrhills Fl. and he had got an offer to do some work for Disney. I’m not sure if he is even alive anymore. My Granmother passed in Nov. of 2005.