Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Archive: Winter 2006 Illustration Roundup
If you would like to help us spread the word about the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, please link to one of our Winter '06 roundup posts (Animated Cartoons / Animation Art / Illustration) on your own webpage or blog. Thanks!
One of the aspects sorely missing from a lot of current animation is good design. Too many television shows and features rely on rehashing designs that have outlived their effectiveness. For the past few months, weve been gathering together galleries of images by some of the best illustrators of the 20th century. Each one has an unique approach that can be applied to design for animation. Today, I will be rounding up the Illustration related Media posts from the last four months... Click on the links and images for the full posting.
Golden Books are a wonderful resource for color and background painting style. We digitized several beautiful Golden Books by Tibor Gergely ( Gergely's Golden Books / More Gergely Golden Books )...
We featured Golden Book adaptations of two classic 1960s TV Cartoons... Huckleberry Hound and Rocky And His Friends...
We spotlighted two classic books by Mary Blair ( Little Verses Part One / Part Two / Baby's House )
We showed the progression of Gustav Tenggren's style, from Small Fry And The Winged Horse to The Little Trapper...
And two postings featuring one of the greatest book illustrators of the golden age, Edmund Dulac... ( Edgar Allen Poe's Poetical Works / Tanglewood Tales )
We featured the work of the classic children's book illustrator Kay Nielsen ( Twelve Dancing Princesses / East of the Sun and West of the Moon / Hansel and Gretel )
We digitized a fun collection of scifi, horror and adventure lobby cards from Mexico...
Finally, we digitized jaw droppingly amazing images by Boris Artzybasheff from his long out of print book, As I See. ( Neurotica / Machinalia / Diablerie )
Over the next week, I'll be rounding up our Winter posts on Cartooning, and Biographies. These roundups aren't provided just to entertain you... I want you to think about what these posts mean to you. If you value them, you'll do your part to help the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive reach its goals.
We Need Your Help!
Last month, we posted letters from June Foray and Leonard Maltin urging you to support this project. June and Nancy Cartwright gave a short presentation on the Archive in front of nearly 1000 of animation's top talents at the Annie Awards. We asked people who could not afford to make a monetary donation to Write A Letter Of Support.
Response has been disappointing. The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive will not be able to continue without your support. At the top of each post is a quick list of suggestions for how you can help...
Bookmark our HOME PAGE, COMMENT using the link at the bottom of each post, lend us ARTWORK to be digitized, Write a BIOPEDIA ENTRY or LETTER OF SUPPORT, CONTRIBUTE to sustain the project, VOLUNTEER to help us reach our goals, LINK TO US on your own webpage or blog, and TELL YOUR FRIENDS.
If you aren't familiar with the goals of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, look in the sidebar under ABOUT THE ARCHIVE... You'll find our Project Mission, an explanation of Why An Animation Archive Is Important, and an outline of What We Have Achieved So Far.
If you find this resource to be valuable, I hope you will acknowledge that with your donations and your support.
The Archive is supported by donations
from people like you. Please contribute...
Thank you
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive
One of the aspects sorely missing from a lot of current animation is good design. Too many television shows and features rely on rehashing designs that have outlived their effectiveness. For the past few months, weve been gathering together galleries of images by some of the best illustrators of the 20th century. Each one has an unique approach that can be applied to design for animation. Today, I will be rounding up the Illustration related Media posts from the last four months... Click on the links and images for the full posting.
Golden Books are a wonderful resource for color and background painting style. We digitized several beautiful Golden Books by Tibor Gergely ( Gergely's Golden Books / More Gergely Golden Books )...
We featured Golden Book adaptations of two classic 1960s TV Cartoons... Huckleberry Hound and Rocky And His Friends...
We spotlighted two classic books by Mary Blair ( Little Verses Part One / Part Two / Baby's House )
We showed the progression of Gustav Tenggren's style, from Small Fry And The Winged Horse to The Little Trapper...
And two postings featuring one of the greatest book illustrators of the golden age, Edmund Dulac... ( Edgar Allen Poe's Poetical Works / Tanglewood Tales )
We featured the work of the classic children's book illustrator Kay Nielsen ( Twelve Dancing Princesses / East of the Sun and West of the Moon / Hansel and Gretel )
We digitized a fun collection of scifi, horror and adventure lobby cards from Mexico...
Finally, we digitized jaw droppingly amazing images by Boris Artzybasheff from his long out of print book, As I See. ( Neurotica / Machinalia / Diablerie )
Over the next week, I'll be rounding up our Winter posts on Cartooning, and Biographies. These roundups aren't provided just to entertain you... I want you to think about what these posts mean to you. If you value them, you'll do your part to help the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive reach its goals.
We Need Your Help!
Last month, we posted letters from June Foray and Leonard Maltin urging you to support this project. June and Nancy Cartwright gave a short presentation on the Archive in front of nearly 1000 of animation's top talents at the Annie Awards. We asked people who could not afford to make a monetary donation to Write A Letter Of Support.
Response has been disappointing. The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive will not be able to continue without your support. At the top of each post is a quick list of suggestions for how you can help...
Bookmark our HOME PAGE, COMMENT using the link at the bottom of each post, lend us ARTWORK to be digitized, Write a BIOPEDIA ENTRY or LETTER OF SUPPORT, CONTRIBUTE to sustain the project, VOLUNTEER to help us reach our goals, LINK TO US on your own webpage or blog, and TELL YOUR FRIENDS.
If you aren't familiar with the goals of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, look in the sidebar under ABOUT THE ARCHIVE... You'll find our Project Mission, an explanation of Why An Animation Archive Is Important, and an outline of What We Have Achieved So Far.
If you find this resource to be valuable, I hope you will acknowledge that with your donations and your support.
from people like you. Please contribute...
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive
