Animator

The Walt Disney Animators’ Strike of 1941 During the early 1930s, unions began to organize in almost every industry across the United States, including the Hollywood entertainment industry. Unions for actors, directors, stagehands, and writers sprung up to unify laborers and collectively bargain for better working conditions. The Screen Cartoonist’s Guild was formed in 1938 to organize the previously unrepresented cartoonists and animators in Hollywood. The Guild enjoyed success during its…

the earliest memory I have as a child was seeing Beauty and the Beast for the first time. That, for whatever reason, enchanted me. It was then I decided that I wanted to be an artist in some way, shape or form. I originally wanted to be a Disney animator because my affinity for drawing. I remember that I would recreate Glen Keane's animation in "The Little Mermaid" and I would, as hard as possible, to imitate his and many of the Disney artists' drawing styles. As I became a teenager, my world…

though animations are fun to watch, the animators who created the animations had to go through various amounts of tasks and obstacles to get to where they are. From the amount of requirements and expectations to the very competitive field, becoming an animator is challenging. According to Lerner's article, Animation, the art of creating a moving three-dimensional visual representation through two-dimensional drawings,…

Tuesday October 31, I attended the “Pixar on Campus” event at which Gini Santos spoke. She was born in the Philippines and prior to her career at Pixar, was an art director. She served as one of two supervising animators on the newest Pixar film, Coco. She is Pixar’s first female supervising animator. During the presentation, Santos spoke about the creation of Coco. Coco is an animated cartoon that centers around Dia De Los Muertos, the Mexican holiday in which family members’ spirits can cross…

the result. This allows the animators to skip drawings of the actual crash and show the ending result. 1: 35 - Heavy Use of Dialogue: In this scene, it is a still picture of a radio then they added a moving circle around it to show the affect of sound be produced from it. The viewer hears the voice through the radio coming from the station while the sound of Huckleberry snoring is present. The use of using heavy dialogue is to reduce the number of scenes the animators have to create. By…

Aaron Blaise: Animator and Illustrator Aaron Blaise is an artist and animator who worked for 21 years creating some of the greatest animated films of the 20th century. He began with illustration work, but learned to create animation in the late 80s under Glen Keane, helping him to eventually becoming director of animation in several films at Walt Disney studios. He is not only an animator but a painter, digital artist, and instructor. In his many years of training, he has travelled around the…

For an animator into a triple “A” studio, the first requirement is the years of experiences, the amount of the years will really depend on the studio of the applier. Some more basic requirement for almost all studios is the usage of 3D software like Maya or 3Ds…

famous and passionate animators was Walt Disney. His company created many animated shorts based around his first character, Mickey Mouse, but Walt had even bigger goals for animation. He wanted to make the first full-length animated feature film. He had a strong belief that animation could and should be taken seriously as a storytelling medium. This first film that he created was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Each frame of the film was hand drawn by Walt’s team of animators and was labored…

Stop-motion, takes one image or frame followed by others frames to project the image moving. South Park is a hilariously vulgar television series and at its core it is a form of stop-motion animation. When the TV show first started the animators used…

collected by the Brothers Grimm. Some of the first sketches for Snow White's character, somewhat resembling BettyBoop, did not meet Walt Disney's expectations, as they were too cartoonish. Hamilton Luske, whom Walt Disney had selected as the supervising animator for Snow White's character, was tasked with the challenge of making Snow White more believably human and realistic than any of the Disney studio's previous animated characters.…