Animator Spotlight: Rod Scribner
In today’s world of focus-tested blandness and homogenized AI sludge, watching Scribner’s boldly personal weirdness from 80 years ago is a breath of fresh air.
Animator Spotlight
Animator Spotlight: Fred Moore
“Fred Moore was Disney drawing,” his colleague Marc Davis once said. “We’ve all done things on our own, but that was the basis of what Disney stood for.”
Animator Spotlight: Emery Hawkins
“I go berserk as far as the formula,” Hawkins explained of his approach. “I just can’t resist the temptation to take the formula and change it.”
Animator Spotlight: Laverne Harding
The great Laverne Harding was not only an underrated talent, but a true pioneer in the Hollywood animation industry.
Animator Spotlight: Grant Simmons
Simmons did some of his funniest and most characteristic work during his MGM stint, working under the great Tex Avery.
Animator Spotlight: Bobe Cannon
Cannon is best known for directing graphically groundbreaking shorts like ‘Gerald McBoing Boing,’ but his incredible work as an animator on the Warner Bros. and MGM films is sometimes overlooked.
Animator Spotlight: Ben Washam
The secret to identifying a Bugs Bunny scene animated by Washam: Look at the teeth.
Animator Spotlight: Kelly Armstrong
Armstrong animated some of the most memorable and unhinged sequences from the iconic 1990s Nicktoon ‘The Ren & Stimpy Show.’
Animator Spotlight: Jim Tyer
Tyer’s crude drawings and off-kilter movements can give the impression of being slapdash, but like a great jazz musician improvises around a melody, Tyer expertly bent and stretched his characters with a playful sense of experimentation.
Animator Spotlight: Irven Spence
Spence developed his kinetic style working under Ub Iwerks and Tex Avery and went on to animate some of Tom & Jerry’s wildest moments.
