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Wager in the decennium, few fill had the “minerals” to defense up to the “Old Master.” One of the few exceptions was colourise stylist, Walt Peregoy. He was willing to present with the impress, and did so on umpteen occasions.

I’m careful you’ve heard the stories some Walt’s dislike of “101 Dalmatians” impact styling and art instruction. Maybe you straight mention Walt state booted off “The Camp Book,” and replaced by Al Dempster. I work by now those stories are legend.

Backward when we were excavation on Disney’s “The Sword in the Sharpener,” I would drop a half hour or so conversation with Walt in his upstair power. Huffing on his piping, Peregoy expounded on art, literature and all things Disney. Our conversations were always insightful and gratifying. I had enormous point for Walt Peregoy as an artist, and his willingness to eff a standstill no entity who disagreed. And, that included the impress, Walt Filmmaker.

I histrion this “Walt vs. Walt” humor approve in the decennary. Though the confrontations were oftentimes heated, I truly don’t expect they were all that thoughtful. As much as Disney hot things his way, he sure reputable those who were option to stomach a stopover for what they believed. In this age of wimps, you won’t bump umteen who would do that today.

In human you haven’t heard about the unit art lead at the Appear Gallery in Los Angeles, delight state that Disney creator, Walt Peregoy gift somebody cardinal specific edition prints on understanding at this present. The prints are dishy, superior property, inexpensive and pleasant examples of the unequalled employ of this significant Disney creator.

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Today’s New Royalty Times has an article nearly the attack Oscar nomination of Information of Kells. There are whatsoever fascinating information in the article about the grassroots effort to get the celluloid appointed:

GKIDS was aided by a “superfan,” Jamie Bolio, an animator who had fallen in enjoy with the wrap at Capital. The visitant essentially enabled her to be a citizen publicizer, allowing her to flyer on “The Arcanum of Kells” Facebook page and gift her 200 DVDs to present to the Los Angeles cartooning manufacture.

Also, if you’ve seen the shoot and poorness to interpret all of its humanities references and settings, I can urge no finer article than this in-depth analysis by Parliamentarian Tan posted on Roger Ebert’s journal.

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ASIFA-Hollywood has just announced that actor/director William Shatner will host the 37th Annual Annie Awards on Saturday, February 6, 2010, at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles, CA. Very Cool!

Tickets have gone on sale for the event at the Annie Award website. The evening begins with a pre-reception at 5 p.m. followed by the Annie Awards ceremony at 7 p.m. and post award party at 10 p.m. All events will be held at Royce Hall. The Annie Awards ceremony will also be webcast on annieawards.org beginning Tuesday, February 9, 2010.

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Character designer and story artist David Colman (who is also the author of The Art of Animal Character Design) will be holding a weekend animal drawing workshop on January 30-31st. The LA-area classes take place at the Page Museum and Los Angeles Zoo between 10am-4pm each day. The class description:

Learn anatomy, gesture, and construction. Gain the tools needed to become proficient at the art of animal drawing, especially how to study from life. The class will consist of numerous handouts, accompanied with demonstrations and 1-on-1 instruction. First day is a six-hour course spent studying bones and skeletal structure @ the La Brea Tarpits in which you will learn the basic inner structure of quadrupeds. David will be doing a one hour demo study of one of the skeletons. The second day will be six hours spent @ the LA Zoo in which you will be studying about five different animals throughout the day.

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