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Comment on growth by mocaw

mocaw — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:06:56 +0000

Very nice break down of what is unfortunately a very hard idea for many people (including me at times) to grasp.

I actually like the flat, cold, mater of fact voice in the narration, but I’m a robot so I’m biased.

Comment on growth by bakaohki

bakaohki — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:02:27 +0000

Nice animation and I love the concept and the theme - looking forward the final version with a human narrator.

Comment on animation tutorial-2 : walk cycle by first steps in inkscape « Gone on and getcha some!

first steps in inkscape « Gone on and getcha some! — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:36:44 +0000

[...] Big thanks to Dermot O’ Connor’s great tutorial. [...]

Comment on richard williams & walks by infinitysend

infinitysend — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:34:34 +0000

I loved watching these vids. However, the long interview with Richard Williams is slightly disheartening. He seems to have given his entire life to animation, but has very little to show for it in terms of material weath. Am I doomed to live a poor, miserable existence by choosing animation as my career? ;_;

Comment on animation tutorial-2 : walk cycle by angry animator animation tutorial 2 walk cycle | Joint Pain Relief

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Comment on tutorials by Pramod

Pramod — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:27:56 +0000

SIR,
Im thankful to you for your tutorials specialy Walk cycle & sink lips.it makes your work very eassy.THANKS again.

Comment on john k: wheat from chaff by madcartoonist

madcartoonist — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:53:14 +0000

By the way, Dermot, the Walt Disney Studio of the 1930s was one of the two ‘medieval guilds’ that existed in the 20th century. Disney’s training program combined traditional art study with 20th century motion study (which involved motion picture reference, by the way). I wonder if anyone will ever write a book on that training program. Probably me, eh?
Today is also the 74th anniversary of the death of Elbert Hubbard, the Fra of the Roycrofters, on the LUSITANIA. Hubbard was William Morris’ chief disciple in the USA; he had an unlikely career path from soap salesman to successful businessman to founder of an arts colony that lasted for over 40 years (well past his own death). Hubbard combined American brash hucksterism with a genuine love of handmade objects–but his crew used machines to bind the hand-illuminated books they sold, and turn the gorgeous copperware that Roycroft was famous for.
Hubbard was the man who popularized that Craftsman and Arts and Crafts style in the USA, by the way. He also coined some brilliant phrases that are often attributed to others:
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
“You can’t choose your relatives. Thank God you can choose your friends.”
“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Elbert_Hubbard/
You can read about him, and the Roycrofters, here,
http://www.roycrofter.com/
and if you are ever in Western New York State near Buffalo, do visit the Roycroft Inn. It still radiates the spirit of enthusiasm, just as Morris’ house in Chiswick did when I visited there. Good ghosts abound.
http://www.gayot.com/restaurants/roycroft-inn-east-aurora-ny-14052_66bu070506.html

Comment on john k: wheat from chaff by madcartoonist

madcartoonist — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:45:47 +0000

Hi Dermot,
Are those homes in Portland? What lovely Craftsmen. Truly the most beautiful houses ever built for the common man.

Now, there’s one thing you did not point out…movies, whether animated or no, are a mechanical art. They are ‘canned’ mass entertainment. Before motion pictures, people went to vaudeville houses and legit theatres for entertainment, or made their own (and most of that would have been pretty lousy. Think of pre-twentieth century Karaoke.)

Live theatre was considered better by the critics of the time, but the stars of stage are known today only through photos and reviews. The magic of the movies let me run an 80-year-old Laurel and Hardy film tonight and laugh at the antics of wonderful clowns whom I’d have never been able to see without the preservative of film.

Animation did not ‘decline’ when Walt Disney started training his artists to produce feature films. Winsor McCay’s work was notable only among animators, sadly.

I agree that there is entirely too much nostalgia among animators for the rather decadent design period of the Fifties and Sixties, but that doesn’t mean that there were no good cartoons made then. Some of the UPA films maintain their classic status, and Chuck Jones’ best work dates from the Fifties, not the Forties.

I’ve noticed that a lot of animators tend to like the animation that was around during their childhood. This says more about the animators than the animation.

anyway, thanks for the gorgeous pictures of the Craftsmen. The McMansions look like junk and will be treated as such.