Month: March 2019
Dick Purdom – at Richard Williams Animation and Richard Purdom Productions
Dick Purdum was one of Richard Williams’s students and proteges at Richard Williams Animation. He was at RWA during the time that Williams brought in Art Babbitt, Grim Natwick, and Ken Harris to provide animation training and to work on The Thief and the Cobbler. As with many of the …
Joe Ranft
Joe Ranft left CalArts after his sophomore year to join Disney in 1980. He worked with Darrell Van Citters on the Fun With Mr. Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Sport Goofy in Soccermania teams. He worked for Amblin on the Toontown portion of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Ranft was a puppeteer on …
Acme Warehouse gets a new lease on life
https://wp.me/p9TCVh-4m (see post on ‘ACME Warehouse, from April 7, 2018) The map (below) shows the Shepherd’s Bush area of London in 1841, with the London Railway line. In 1898, The Dimco Buildings were constructed in White City, just north of Shepherd’s Bush, as a shed for the Central …