Animated Cartoonists


All things:
Screen Cartoonists
Makers of cartoons
includes illustrators
and related



'Animation is a medium not a genre' !



This gallery is a scrapbook from my thirty something years in the cartoon animation film industry, mostly in London, plus three years in Los Angeles. As an animation cameraman mainly, apart from making some independent films and stills work, and in the last years in related digital roles. From time to time I photographed the animation people. Additionally, some artists have graciously contributed self-portraits, and other drawings. It is in no way a methodical or a comprehensive record, as that would be more than a full time job. It’s a personal view, happenstance, various standards of photography, it’s a scrapbook not a coffee table book! RKW









"Remember the golden rule in animation is that there are no rules" Bob Godfrey







"A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself." Charles M. Schulz







"While the live-action camera is used to show what an object looks like, animated drawings are usually relied upon to explain their meaning," John Halas









Animation Village is full of artists, animators, cartoonist, illustrators, designers, technicians, producers and related.









The faces behind the cartoon characters. Cartoon characters are the ultimate masks for the animators, because these cartoonists are closet actors. A personal portrait of the cartoon animation industry in Soho London and beyond from the 90s onwards.









"An animator is an actor with a pencil" Chuck Jones












"Good animation is not just copying life. It is CARICATURE of Life. It is Life+" Ollie Johnston












“I think that if you have a chance, if you're lucky enough to have had a little success, you should maybe try to push it a little bit,” Brad Bird





































































“You want accuracy but not representation...” Francis Bacon
























































ANIMATION CHRONICLES
























"Don't move a character until they want to” Ollie Johnston (1912 – 2008)



























"Here's a thing for you drawing freaks; straight lines don't exist. Space and time are curved like the lens in your eyeballs. Show me a straight line and I'll show you an impostor. But what scrambles my eggs is that COLOUR is an illusion. It only exists inside our minds. On a molecular level, every single thing in the Universe is absolutely colourless. Apart from my Hawaiian boxer shorts with the parrots and the palm trees, which are pretty lurid” (FB) Vincent Woodcock
















Dictionary: “ANIMATION.......noun
1 the state of being full of life or vigor; liveliness : they started talking with animation.
• chiefly archaic the state of being alive.
2 the technique of filming successive drawings or positions of puppets or models to create an illusion of movement when the movie is shown as a sequence : [as adj. ] animation techniques | animations as backdrops for live action.
• (also computer animation) the manipulation of electronic images by means of a computer in order to create moving images.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘encouragement’ ): from Latin animatio(n-), from animare ‘instill with life’ (see animate ). Sense 1 dates from the early 19th cent.” New Oxford American Dictionary













“Humour is not a mood, but a way of looking at the world.” Wittgenstein
















"Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.” Walt Disney




































"It's kind of fun to do the impossible," Walt Disney







































































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Animators & shakers gallery































Dear Animator, Cartoon expert or enthusiast, if you see any mistakes in the text, missing names or information that could help for a better understanding of the subject, please write to the website with your information 'Contact us' see above. Thank's Richard
























































































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“Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody.” Walt Disney

























“The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again;” Thomas Paine, 'The Age of Reason'
































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































"Take a blank sheet of paper and write down whatever comes into your head" Michael Bond














"I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival." Quentin Blake
























































































































































"People say - and I'm quite willing to believe it - that it's difficult to know oneself - but it's not easy to paint oneself either.." Vincent van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo



















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"There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another"
Edouard Manet
















"Remember, life is on ones." Richard Williams















“My high school art teacher didn’t like me. He said ‘if you keep doing those cartoons, you’ll wind up selling pencils on the street!” Robert Crumb














Health and safety notification:
No cartoonists or cartoon characters were harmed during the filming and photography of this collection of image








































































































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