{"id":3965,"date":"2011-05-10T00:27:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T04:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbal007.com\/?p=884"},"modified":"2011-05-10T00:27:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T04:27:56","slug":"richard-williams-animator-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/richard-williams-animator-director","title":{"rendered":"Richard Williams &#8211; Animator \/ Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-885\" href=\"http:\/\/www.verbal007.com\/2011\/richard-williams-animator-director\/animsurvivalkit\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-885 alignleft\" title=\"Animsurvivalkit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verbal007.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Animsurvivalkit-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>Working in the animation industry, it&#8217;s almost impossible to not have heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Williams_%28animator%29\">Richard Williams<\/a>. His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Animators-Survival-Kit-Richard-Williams\/dp\/0571202284\">Animator&#8217;s Survival Kit<\/a> is a bible for most character animators. Every studio that I have worked at, had at least a half dozen copied floating around. A few years ago, Richard also made his<a title=\"The Animator's Survival Kit Animated\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theanimatorssurvivalkit.com\/\"> live lectures available on DVD<\/a>. The price is now down to just under $1000 USD. Wiki says that this animator\/director was born in Toronto, Canada in 1933.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Williams is best known as the director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096438\/\"><strong>Who Framed Roger Rabbit<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Williams had also directed 3\/4 of the Raggedy Ann &amp; Andy, &#8220;<em>A Musical Adventure<\/em>&#8220;. Here&#8217;s a great clip of the iconic dolls floating around in a living lake of sugar, via <a href=\"http:\/\/scribblejunkies.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/raggedy-ann-greedy-sequence.html\">Scribble Junkies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iC7PtQh4gA8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAccording to the <a href=\"http:\/\/scribblejunkies.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/raggedy-ann-greedy-sequence.html\">Scribble Junkies<\/a> thread, the primary animator for this shot was Emery Hawkins.<\/p>\n<p>If you liked that, I recommend checking out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelspornanimation.com\/splog\/?cat=23\">Michael Sporn&#8217;s blog<\/a>, where you can find pages and pages of behind the scene materials, including the original timing sheets. There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Animated-Raggedy-Ann-Andy-Techniques\/dp\/0672523299\">&#8220;The Animated Raggedy Ann and Andy: An Intimate Look at the Art of Animation Its History, Techniques, and Artists&#8221; book<\/a>, that sounds like a good collector&#8217;s item.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it&#8217;s difficult to talk about Richard Williams without mentioning his film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E62ibzd8WX4\">The Thief and the Cobbler<\/a>. If you appreciate his work, I recommend taking 2 hours to see the mostly finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E62ibzd8WX4\">Recobbled Cut<\/a>&#8220;, which is available, in it&#8217;s entirety on Youtube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working in the animation industry, it&#8217;s almost impossible to not have heard of Richard Williams. His Animator&#8217;s Survival Kit is a bible for most character animators. Every studio that I have worked at, had at least a half dozen copied floating around. A few years ago, Richard also made his live lectures available on DVD. 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