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BSW - CAA - Artist Studies for Nat

 Bill Plympton


Bill Plympton is an American animator, graphic designer, cartoonist, and filmmaker who was born in 1946, best known for his 1987 Award-nominated animated short Your Face. he studied graphic design at Portland State University later transferring to the school of visual arts in New York where he majored in Cartooning. He graduated from there in 1969.

His animation style mainly consists of hand drawn animation and has a weird and comedic theme. Nat in one of the lessons showed us a cool animation of his where it is a mans head morphing and changing shape in all different ways. 

I think I relate to Bill in the fact that he went to Uni for art and came out with a career in animation - or cartooning in his time - and that is what I am striving to achieve!



Richard Williams


Richard Williams was born in 1933 in Toronto, Canada and unfortunately died last year in August. He was best known for his role in 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' as director of animation. The animation went on to receive many awards. In 2002 he wrote and published the 'Animators Survival Guide' which showed many animation methods and techniques. This is one of the greatest animation guides out there and it has been made into 16 different DVD's and an IOS app.

'Prologue' was the last animation produced by Richard before his death and is an amazing animation! I just watched it and it shows really good drawing frame by frame. It must have taken him so so long to make and I wish I could one day live up to the standards in that animated short! Each frame has a complex drawing showing great detail consistently and the simple colours and simple background make the subjects really pop. It shows 4 Greek men fighting and in the end they all die. Once the fight is over we see a little girl who has found the bodies and she runs to find comfort in a woman.

I will definitely take many things from Richard and his style and I hope it will make me a better artist and animator in the long run!

     






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