Comments on Nick Cross Animation: Animation festival poster and film

@ Dave: Good point...it's hard not to think o...

2012-01-04T14:01:52.235-05:00

@ Dave: Good point...it's hard not to think of any animator at Disney not being middle-aged...

"the idea of a middle aged lummox lumberin...

2012-01-02T23:50:42.032-05:00
"the idea of a middle aged lummox lumbering around the studio pretending to be a graceful waif."

Yeah, except at the time Eric Larson would have been a skinny twenty-something kid. (we have this mythology of "the Nine OLD Men" so deeply entrenched ... we forget that they all started off in the business as 19 - 24 year old guys in the 1930's.) Still it's no less funny to imagine that skinny guy pretending to prance about gracefully as Ham Luske filmed him with his 16mm Bell & Howell camera to study his movements as an aid to animating the goddess.

Good stuff! Im very inspired by your work, made a ...

2011-12-22T04:08:06.365-05:00
Good stuff!
Im very inspired by your work, made a short movie in a similar technique, check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weNATohqRtk

Apparently they used Eric Larson as reference for ...

2011-12-18T20:22:23.375-05:00
Apparently they used Eric Larson as reference for this scene which just makes it all the more humorous to me, the idea of a middle aged lummox lumbering around the studio pretending to be a graceful waif.

Whoa, there's something about that Goddess of ...

2011-12-18T18:16:08.473-05:00
Whoa, there's something about that Goddess of Spring dance which is very unsettling

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2011-12-17T19:03:25.636-05:00
yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Nice!

2011-12-17T17:14:00.783-05:00
Nice!