I attended CTN animation eXpo and sold a few books, although the primary purpose for attending was to meet people I had only interviewed on the telephone. I had a terrific week. Richard Williams, animation director of Who framed Roger Rabbit, died on August 16, 2019. During the CTN animation eXpo, …
Howard Green, V.P. of Public Relations at Walt Disney Feature Animation, invited me to a lunch at the Disney Studios during the week of the CTN animation eXpo. He made it very special by also inviting some people who had worked on Who framed Roger Rabbit. Included were: Max Howard, Production …
Animation in London in the 1980s was still more of a cottage industry. There were some established studios, mostly doing work on commercials – Richard Williams Animation chief amongst them. Many people freelanced, and were busy as work came up. Often, work came up through ‘networking’ in the Soho pubs. …
The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) was founded in 1975. It is the largest animation festival in North America. In 2008, OIAF held a special tribute to Richard Williams to mark the 20th anniversary of the release of ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit.” The tribute included an on-stage conversation with John …
A book signing was hosted at Larry Edmunds Books in Hollywood on August 24. Ross Anderson (Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat) and Tom Sito (Drawing the Line; The Untold Story of the Animation Unions, Moving Innovation: History of Computer Animation, and Eat, Drink, Animate) spoke about the making of ‘Who …
It is impossible to discuss Richard Williams without discussing ‘The Thief’, a project that consumed much of his career. ‘The Thief’ had its origins in the mid-1960s when Richard Williams became very interested in Sufism, which is a concept related to an inner mysticalaspect of Islam – although some Sufi …
Richard Williams passed away at his home in Bristol, England, at age 86. He was born on March 19, 1933, in Toronto. In his early teens he traveled to Los Angeles and met the Disney animators. He moved to Europe to study fine art, but eventually moved to London, …
The past six weeks have been a whirlwind of the trip to Annecy and London, then work travel, then some vacation travel, and then retirement. The photo above was taken at an impromptu book signing for family and friends on the dock at a cottage in Ontario. Some public book …
Ross Anderson was in London on June 17, the day ‘Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat’ was officially released and the day it was available on Amazon.co.uk, for a book signing an London crew get-together at Edinboro Castle pub in Camden Town. About twenty members of the London animation …
‘Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat’ has been released on Amazon.com, but the first public unveiling on a bookstore shelf was at the BD fugue book store in the Bonlieu Centre at the animation festival in Annecy, France, on June 10. The festival book signing session was on June …
