I'm preparing for another big interview, this time with the directors of Disney classics like The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Princess and the Frog and Moana.
The dynamic duo of Ron Clements and John Musker.
I will be recording the interview this Wednesday if the weather is right and posting it later to the Animateducated YouTube channel which you are a subscriber of or should be!
We are all hopefully adapting to this new situation as oppose to panicing, arming ourselves and panicing even more. This is a time for change, time to get creative and deal with everything.
If you are currently away from your animation class and back at home worrying about the future. Its time to get educated by either watching those films you have only seen clips about on YouTube or as parodies. If you are stuck at home, if you have Netflix or any other channel available, its time to watch some of those classic films to escape the worries of the world. Or start writing down a day to day journal or sketch out your feeling in a sketchbook. Just don't sit there and veg out on video games or mind-nubbing content on YouTube. Get Creative! Good things are created in tough situations, just ask J.K. Rowling. I am starting to teach animation online which in itself is very new to me as well. I have started to post some helpful videos for my current classes and you are welcome to check them out below.
Sure there is already tons of tutorials out there probably better than this one, but hopefully you will enjoy this and learn something at the same time. Feel free to leave a comment below, feedback is always welcome.
Name this actress in what big movie and classic TV show
Currently I am working on new episodes available as soon as possible and if you subscribe to the Animateducated YouTube channel, you will be notified as soon as they are posted. Hope everyone reading this is being patient, keeping calm and creative. So why are you reading this when there is a cinema classic waiting to be watched and enjoyed!
From UCLA's Royce Hall last Saturday, Greg and I got an opportunity
to attend the 45th Annie Awards, which is like the Oscars of the
animation world. Now, I have to say, that every time I have attended
this event before, people have mistaken me for some well known person in
animation. The
first time this happened, someone thought I was Animator/Historian Tom
Sito. The second time, someone thanked me for my moving tribute to Roy
Disney, which was actually given by Disney producer, Don Hahn. Then last
year, someone wanted me to draw a picture of Bart Simpson, thinking I
was Simpsons creator, Matt Groening. The
only things I have in common with these gentlemen are; that we all are
men with facial hair, we wear glasses and share the love of animation.
The
only person I wanted to meet this year was Glen Keane. For those who
aren't in animation, Glen Keane brought the Disney characters of Ariel,
the Beast, Aladdin, Tarzan, Long John Silver to life. and this year's
animated short film "Dear Basketball.," a love letter by Kobe Bryant
about his favorite sport. The film won an Annie for this year's best
animated short subject and has been nominated for this year's Oscars.
Upon entering the pre-party, we met Adrian Molina , the co-writer and co-director of "Coco". He spoke to us and was very friendly. He was a story artist at Pixar and was given the opportunity to help write the screenplay "Coco" and then to co-direct it.
Coco won most of the awards that night. and "The Breadwinner" won best independent animated feature which executive producer, Angelina Jolie help put together.
Other
highlights included, Angelina Jolie in attendance, "Cuphead" won
special achievement award, TV Paint won the Ub Iwerks Award, The Winsor
McCay award went to the NFBC duo of Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis, Tom
Kenny (the Voice of Spongbob) presented a Winsor McCay Award to
Spongebob creator, Stephen Hillenburg and Pendleton Ward (Adventure
Time) presented a Winsor McCay Award to animator James Baxter.
Afterwards, we attended the VIP party where I got to meet and congratulated another animation hero of mine, James Baxter.
When we first met Glen Keane, things were going well. And
then, it started. When I meet famous people that I
admire I have discovered, that I have a tendency to physically go out of focus. Most people will become nervous or
shy or begin to sweat or can't think of what to say next, I
go out of focus and here's proof.
I
could tell Glen was noticing my blurry condition was getting worse, but
he was very polite and the out of focus attack didn't last too long
this time. Afterwards I remained in focus long enough to take this nice picture with him.
We met a bunch more people, but the real surprise of the night was meeting the model for Tinker Bell, Margaret Kerry!
She was also very friendly and I didn't go out of focus at all, not once.
What a small world animation is after all.
Just before we left, I ran into an old friend of mine, Wendie Owens. We use to work together at StarToons, back when I was in Chicago. Her husband,
Mike Owens directed a new show on Amazon Prime called " Danger and
Eggs", which was up for the best Character design in an animated TV/Broadcast production.
As
we finally began to leave Royce Hall for good, a group of people began
to follow me. I am not joking here, one guy held out a pen to me and
said, "Pen?" I looked around and then back to the guy. "Aren't you
Pendleton Ward?"
"Oh no, I'm sorry that's not me," I said, "I'm Don Hahn."
The
group looked very disappointed as they sadly walked away. My friends
said I should have signed it, but I couldn't have done that, besides it
was late and we had long drive by back to Burbank.
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Do
I really look like Pendelton Ward? (It was dark and about 1 in the
morning.) Please let me know and leave a comment below, don't be shy.
Can't wait to find out who I will be mistaken for at next year's Annie
Awards.
I am available if anyone needs to be at an important event or a meeting at the same time. I'd be glad to help you out.
