Daily post 03 Mar 2007 09:00 am
Scumbling Some More
– I had initially planned to post some of the Bg art from Jason McDonald‘s work from our Nonsense & Lullabyes film. (I’d posted the storyboard yesterday.) However, I won’t get to that until tomorrow, Sunday; it’s taking longer than I expected to scan.
- The NYTimes, this Sunday, features an article on John Lasseter and his role in running the animation division of Disney. Read the article here.
- After my post of the Max Hare run from Disney’s 1935 Tortoise and the Hare, Keith Lango put together a couple of QT movies illustrating this run at a couple of different speeds. He did a great job of timing it.
- After Keith’s post, Jeff Watson sent us a QT movie of the actual frames from the Disney color short. Click here to view this movie.
Michael Barrier continues to build on his comments about script writer/storyboard artists. With some insight, he uses an interview with Bill Scott conducted by Jim Korkis to get Scott’s thoughts. I enjoy reading anything Scott has to say about animation and appreciate Mike’s posting it.
Most of you already know that Bill Scott was the creative genius behind many of the scripts for The Bullwinkle Show. His career as an animation writer stretches back to Warner Bros and UPA in the 40′s. It’s all detailed well in Keith Scott‘s book The Moose That Roared (an excellent book if you’re at all interested in the animation and the animators behind Bullwinkle.)
Bill impacted my life in a big way. In 1984, I was nominated for an Oscar for my film, Dr. DeSoto. That was the year they started the nominee’s luncheon. All the nominees gathered 
together for a meal and to meet some of the others. I was seated with a number of the documentary filmmakers. The Academy had wisely placed a member from the different divisions to sit at the various tables to try to make us comfortable. Bill Scott sat alongside me. When he introduced himself I was astonished to meet him. I grew up as a Bullwinkle fanatic and knew he was the guy behind those shows.
He told me that he had requested to sit near me since he was a big fan of one of my films. It was a short I did for Reading Rainbow about going to the library. Without words I tried to illustrate the experience of a young child entering a library for the first time.
(Bill Scott from the book, The Moose That Roared.)
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I don’t know how or when Bill had seen that short, but he knew it and he knew me.
I couldn’t believe that I was in any way on HIS radar. That meant at least as much to me emotionally as the Oscar nomination.
on 03 Mar 2007 at 6:45 pm 1.Dino said …
I too am scared of Bullwinkle.
on 03 Mar 2007 at 8:54 pm 2.Tom Minton said …
Bill Scott also had a tough side, revealed only when it would have the greatest impact. I saw him stare down a panel of smug network executives at an ASIFA function in the early 1980′s and uncharacteristically raise his voice to assert into an open mike “It always amazes me that the very people who built a (tv animation) ghetto are surprised to find themselves living in it!” There was only one Bill Scott.