Animation &Articles on Animation 20 Jan 2009 08:50 am
Obama, Borge, Babbitt, Bunin
My favorite post on the subject comes from Tom Sito‘s blog –
as might have been expected.
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- I recently received an email from Borge Ring, and thought I’d share its contents with you:
- Back in the sixties I pumped Lou Bunin at Annecy for knowledge about Art Babbitt – “My worlds best animator” at the time – whom I had never met”.
Bunin was friendly and praised Art’s animation for Bunin’s own puppet film about “Alice in Wonderland” but added:
“One thing about him surprised me”,
“What”?
“That he was”such a poor draftsman”
Art animated his scenes on paper for the puppet animator to follow.
Years later I saw a scene from Bunin’s Alice of the rabbit walking up to a door and knocking.
It reeks of Babbitt.
Given this comment, I think it’d be appropriate to post these pages from Shamus Culhane’s book, Animation, From Script to Screen.”
The book includes an enormous wealth of other animation referential material and is a must-own for animation fans. I’d posted two of these two years ago.
(Click any image to enlarge.)
It’s remarkable that Babbitt was animating for Lou Buinin’s Alice at the very same time his former employer, Disney, was doing their version of the same book. Both films were released almost simultaneously.
Disney, at one point, took Bunin to court trying to suppress his Alice, but the judge sided with Bunin. The material was in public domain.
Here’s the review for Lou Bunin’s film:
on 20 Jan 2009 at 1:43 pm 1.Thad said …
Who else loved that glare that Bush gave him when Obama thanked him for his ‘job performance’? When do he and Cheney go to jail for their war crimes?
on 20 Jan 2009 at 3:43 pm 2.Tom Sito said …
Thanks for the compliment, Mike. Ahhh….isn’t it wonderful to refer to the Bush/Cheney administration in the past tense? I feel like a great dark weight has lifted.
I can recall back to Kennedy a pinnacle of US leadership and prestige, and these last few years I really felt that the republic had turned finally to a paranoid empire that extolled the virtues of ignorance. That in my lifetime I could see the final collapse of this state, little mourned by the rest of the world. Bush was Caligula’s Horse.
Now we have hope again, and if it is America’s destiny to fail, at least it won’t be through incompetence.
Now enough with politics, we can go back to being artists.
on 20 Jan 2009 at 8:41 pm 3.Tom Minton said …
NBC provided pool coverage of the inaugural address this morning and someone opted to e.q. the sound to virtually censor the 70 percent of the audience on the green booing Bush on his entrance. Chris Matthews mentioned later on his MSNBC program how regrettable the moment was. Regrettable or not, it happened and deserved to be reported without audio censorship.