Set up for Kimba event
Fred sets up cues for the night with the video/sound booth
Sadao Miyamoto (an alumnus of Tezuka's Mushi Productions), Jared Cook, translator & interpreter for Tezuka , and Fred Ladd back to camera
Fred Ladd, Sadao Miyamoto, Sonia Owens back to camera and Jared Cook
Craig and Robin Anderson who came in from Baltimore for the event www.KimbaWLion.com
Filmography, voice cast photo and 36 page Kimba book
Miyamoto-san had day to day insights into Tezuka`s Mushi Productions
Sonia Owens one of the last of the voice crew
Fred Patten, author of the How Kimba Came to Be essay in the Kimba booklet
Tinker Bell as MC
Fred intros Kimba screening
The smoking gun, Kimba`s father in the clouds
Ollie Johnston to Receive Medal of Arts Legendary Disney animator Ollie Johnston was among the names announced yesterday as President George W. Bush unveiled the recipients of the 2005 National Medal of Art. The first animator to ever receive the honor, Johnston is traveling to Washington D.C. with his family and Roy Disney to attend Thursday`s ceremony.
Morph 2005 German Stop Motion Online Festival
Just fished this out of my spam bin. I had a piece in this festival last year. I didn`t place but I blamed it on a language barrier so my ego survived. I am not going to be able to have my current piece in shape for this year. But that is festival life, you are either in the show or part of the audience, on the bus or off the bus. I you have some stop motion shorts here is any easy way to get them seen.
Former Student Tracks Me Down:
- Dear Filmmakers
have you made a stop-motion animation short? morph 2005 is the online animation contest put on by stopmotionfilm.de, the first german stop-motion website. you can enter your film into one of the following categories and win a prize.
- best stop-motion quickie
- best stop-motion character
your film will be presented on our website and will be viewed by other creative types all around the world.
- requirements: seven minutes or shorter
- technique: stop-motion or claymation, or a combination of these with 2d-computer animation
- download your entry form online at stopmotion.de
- deadline for submissions: november 30th 2005
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thomas schneider-trumpp
head of
animation & director morph
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studio clayart
a brand of scopas medien ag
daimlerstrasse 32-36
60314 frankfurt/main
tel.: +49 (069) 440870
fax.: +49 (069) 4059692
http://www.stopmotionfilm.de/
http://www.clayart.de/
One of the things about teaching that I like is that if you do a good job, students look you up in later life and say thank you. And if you don`t do so well with some student they may think bad things about you but you really have to mess them up for them to want to hunt you down. Here is an email form the former category.
Hello Mr. Loc,
I am not sure if you would remember me or not, My name is Daniel S _ _ _ _ _. I was in your classes at CCROP. I attended the first internet web publishing class that you had and then the following year took your animation class.. I tried to drop by the school to say Hello, but they told me you were not working there anymore. So I did some searching on the internet and found this E-mail address, I hope this one is still valid.
I have built and maintained the website www.customautoparts.com for the last 3 years now. I
remember you being such a great teacher while I was going to school there, and like I said I was in the neighborhood and wanted to drop in on you and see how you were doing. Since I did not see you at the school, I hope this E-mail reaches you . . . Write me back and let me know how things have been.
Hope to hear from you soon,
Daniel S_ _ _ _ _
CustomAutoParts.com
I remembered him. Needless to say I did write him back. This is the gravy, the feed for the ego, the stuff that keeps me teaching. I had a teacher like this only more so, Peggy Russell, my 8th grade English teacher, I still am in touch with her. For years she edited my manuscripts until computers came up with spell check. She went out of her way to change my life for the better. I wouldn`t be writing this today with out her. I will love her to the day I die. I don`t think I have ever paid back my debt to her but these past students looking me up give me hope that some day I might.
Here's a little treat from today's batch...
Check out the rest at... The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog
Thanks
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive
Mark signing a Roger Rabbit poster that already has the autograph Richard Williams (for Mark Kausler)
Mark and I talking to a student that worked on the InstaVision Popeye game for which Mark animated the commercial, one of Mark`s favorite because he got to do the old Popeye.
Photos by: Megumi Tsuji Pencil Mileage Club Historian
LATER: I finally got some sleep last night. My Monday / Tuesday schedule has been a little wearing this semester, class till 10 PM Monday night and then 8 AM class Tuesday morning. This week was real hard because I had Mark Kausler in to Cal State Fullerton. But it was worth it.
Mark brought out his 16 mm projector and showed rare animations and almost animations (NBC TeleComics - Radio play with still pictures). There were two real highlights to the show for me.
The first dealt with the TeleComics. I picked up a couple of original pieces of production artwork from ASIFA just because they where such great pieces of art. Mark identified the artist in passing, Dik Moores of Gasoline Alley fame. I love Dik`s run on Gasoline Alley and didn`t even know I had two of his originals in my collection.
The second big surprise for me was a Krazy Kat that I had not seen in 40 years and I didn`t even know that I had not seen it. That is what I love about cartoons. All of the sudden I was a kid again setting in my parents front room in Florida looking at this big monster RCA cabinet model TV / Record Player with the 12 inch screen and the record player that had not worked for years and years. There were ugly nick knack shelves on the wall with seashells we fownd on the beach. I was half way through a box of Cheerios. And the devil (a very strong part of my childhood church going mythology) was talking Krazy Kat into stealing a melody from a classical composer. I want a copy of that cartoon. I want to see it again. Man I love that cartoon and all these years I didn`t even know what was missing.
Okay let us change subjects, here is Ken Kinoshita (one of my students, a former Disney artist, current Illustration student and a long time friend of Mark) with Mark Kausler.
Mark and I talking about the play list of cartoons for the night.
Mark in his element, behind a projector
We started with Crusader Rabbit The Alex Anderson/Jay Ward rabbit is not an easy cartoon to see as most copies are buried in the Fox Vault.
Followed by NBC TeleComics (ASIFA-Hollywood had all of the artwork for this cartoon thingy) Then Mark showed a reel of cartoons from his childhood. Cartoons that he loves, cartoons that shaped him and made him into an animator.
We ended the night with an interview, Mark showed artwork from his short animation It`s the Cat (I love this cartoon it has all the things that I love about cartoons from the 30s). We then showed this great animation to my class. Did some questions from the audience and had a small reception. All in all a very good night. Thank you Mark.
Photos by: Bonnie Robinson
I very seldom read the Orange County Register it was hatefully anti-teacher during the 2001 Orange Country Teachers Strike. And they took the position from the very first that our dear Governor Arnold is a liberal. (I am not making this up, really I am not, gods I wish I were) But this Sunday there was not a Los Angeles Times to be had in the store and we really needed the funnies and the movie section and thought that it would be better than nothing.
With such a dubious pedigree it comes as no great surprise that they put forth the same mistaken assumptions as their betters at the New York Times a few weeks ago, mainly that cartoons are only for children. Sandy Cohen in Innocence and Innuendo is shocked, I say shocked to find adult elements in G-rate animation features in the form of things that adults get but that sail harmless over the heads of the kiddies and Sandy seems to think it a new and insidious development and has a group of other movie rating groups that do a better job of stopping creeping communism I mean liberalism where are our burning crosses?.
This Cohen personage must not have been paying much attention to say Doc of Snow White fame (the first Hollywood animated feature) and I quote: What are you and who are you doing? I mean who are you and what are you doing? Cartoons have always been for adults. Don`t make me have to bring up the subject of Betty Boop.
So Sandy do a little research or shut up. Like maybe seeing some animation before you write about it might be in order. I do teach Animation History in two Orange County colleges and one college that is over the line in Long Beach, try stopping in some time. Oh and the liberal commies are not taking over the cineplex, really. Or if we are we did it a long time ago while you where sleeping at the switch in your diapers.
To add insult to stupidity in the Culture (sic) Section in an article of Orange County sons and daughters who made good, some unknown writer infers that Chuck Jones was born in Newport Beach and that he created Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Pepe Le Pew. I guess that one out of five is as good as we can expect and it gives me the greatest sadness that indoor plumbing has finally come to Orange Country so that this paper can not be treated as it truly deserves.
KIMBA THE WHITE LION
40th Anniversary Party
A tribute to Osamu Tezuka's "Jungulu Taitei Leo"
Tickets are $6 for ASIFA-Hollywood members, $8 for non-members. This event will be THE DEFINITIVE REVIEW of the famous KIMBA Series.
Exclusive merchandise will be sold! Come Early - Seating is limited!
Thursday November 10th • 7:00 pm
Glendale Central Library
222 E. Harvard Street
Glendale, CA
