Friday, February 19, 2021

Jim Richardson, Photographer

You've done this. You're bored and so you Google to see who else in the world shares your name. Sometimes the result might surprise you. 

Recently, I was bored and I did the same thing. Years ago, I knew of Jim Richardson, a photographer who worked for National Geographic and recently, I decided to see if I could interview him on Animateducated.

Now, you may be a purist and say, but Jim, what does a photographer have to do with animation? And you could be right, but we do have a lot in common besides sharing the same honorable name. Jim wears glasses, has a beard and is a photographer. I too, but my photography interest as a High School Yearbook photographer mutated into drawing animation, see example below.

I was thrilled when he agreed to be interviewed on my Youtube channel called Animateducated and talk about his work. 


Enjoy the interview below as it begins on Friday, March 12th @ 7pm


Please enjoy these Jim Richardson (the photographer) images and return with friends to click on the ads to feed our blog's tip jar and listen to some interesting stories behind these photographs shown here!






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Thursday, February 11, 2021

New book: Wild Minds

If you are interested in learning more about the history of animation, I highly recommend "Wild Minds" by Reid Mitenbuler. Its follows a lot of the pioneers of animation like Windsor McCay, Max Fleischer and of course, Walt Disney, but there are a lot of other people mentioned as well.

It was well researched and told different parts of the character's lives without becoming stale by just presenting the dates and what occurred when like a police report. Its full of funny and sad situations which keeps you moving forward to the next interesting chapter.

Below is a recent interview I had with Reid Mitenbuler and about writing the book. 


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