Via Boing Boing comes this link to the ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive’s blog where Stephen Worth has posted scans from a book from Clair Weeks, which is the old Disney Studios Artist’s Tryout Book from the 30s, explaining how some of the tasks in the animation studio break down: “STORY MEN must be able to draw. The stories are not written but are visualized in sketch form. The value of an animator is dependent upon his ability to dramatize and caricature life, and to time and stage his characters’ actions in an unusual and interesting way. An animator must be a showman- he must know how to entertain an audience, to present a gag, to picture dramatically an ordinary incident. Above all, he must be a sure and skillful draftsman.”
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February 8th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
[...] In a nice book-end to the post about the vintage Disney artist’s tryout book Garen Ewing dropped me a line to tell me about the Disney pack he received from the Mouse Kingdom back in the mists of time (well, 1981) when he was a tender 11 years of age after his mother wrote to Disney to ask what skills he would need to become an animator. As Garen says “I wasn’t disappointed at all that they didn’t immediately invite me over to sunny Burbank and take me on as their trainee, because I was too excited at getting an envelope with an official Mickey Mouse on the address label!” [...]
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