 |
In mid-October a 26-year veteran animator made the rounds of NYC animation schools on behalf of Disney/Pixar’s upcoming Thanksgiving release The Good Dinosaur.
If people still put travel stickers on their steamer trunks (if people still had steamer trunks) Kevin O’Hara’s would sport ones from Don Bluth’s studio, Amblin Animation and a decade’s worth from DreamWorks before arriving at Pixar in time to work on Ratatouille. And none of it would’ve happened if he hadn’t seen The Jungle Book when he was seven years old.
“It changed my life — I wanted to draw just like that,” Kevin tells me after a lively session with Greenwich Village animation students. “The animators kept it loose, you could almost see the sketches moving around. As a kid I was all caught up in that, that’s how I wanted to draw.
“My dad bought home a Disney Jungle Book coloring book, but the drawings didn’t have any life to them. I was pissed off: ‘Dad, this is not Jungle Book.’
“‘It says Jungle Book and it has Shere Khan right here.’
“‘That’s not Shere Khan.’ He didn’t know but I could tell it wasn’t a Milt Kahl Shere Khan.” (Kahl, one of Disney’s legendary “Nine Old Men” animated Khan, not mention Mowgli, Baloo and even the Beatlesque vultures.)
If people still put travel stickers on their steamer trunks (if people still had steamer trunks) Kevin O’Hara’s would sport ones from Don Bluth’s studio, Amblin Animation and a decade’s worth from DreamWorks before arriving at Pixar in time to work on Ratatouille. And none of it would’ve happened if he hadn’t seen The Jungle Book when he was seven years old.
“It changed my life — I wanted to draw just like that,” Kevin tells me after a lively session with Greenwich Village animation students. “The animators kept it loose, you could almost see the sketches moving around. As a kid I was all caught up in that, that’s how I wanted to draw.
“My dad bought home a Disney Jungle Book coloring book, but the drawings didn’t have any life to them. I was pissed off: ‘Dad, this is not Jungle Book.’
“‘It says Jungle Book and it has Shere Khan right here.’
“‘That’s not Shere Khan.’ He didn’t know but I could tell it wasn’t a Milt Kahl Shere Khan.” (Kahl, one of Disney’s legendary “Nine Old Men” animated Khan, not mention Mowgli, Baloo and even the Beatlesque vultures.)
भिडियो हेर्न तलको बिज्ञापन लाइ हटाउनुहोस
|
0 comments:
Post a Comment