One of those is a book by tom sito called moving innovation. The cartoon art museum welcomes tom sito, animator and author of the new culinary guide eat, drink, animate. The common thread is that each interviewee has directed or codirected an animated feature. He was one of the key players in disneys animation revival of the 1980s and 1990s and he helped set up the dreamworks animation unit in 1995. This is volume two of an outstanding set of books containing smart, informative interviews with todays top directors in the animation industry conducted by two veteran feature animation directors who serve on the board of governors at the academy of motion picture arts and sciences. He was a peasant boy that lived at castle wyvern and one of the only human friends to the gargoyles at the time, having befriended the rookery trio shortly before the massacre. Join animator and animation historian tom sito as he presents his newest book eat, drink, animate. Apr 26, 20 tom sito is a long time animator, filmmaker and teacher. Paul buhles anthology, jews in american popular culture, and updated the classic animation howto book, timing for animation, for focalelsevier press in 2009.
Sito s book is a celebration of the works from legendary animation artists from around the world. Tom sito is a excellent storyteller who weaves a tale of animation history using the unions as a guide. Tom sito is a long time animator, filmmaker and teacher. As a lecturer of animation history and 3d computer animator, i received a copy of moving innovation.
Disneys reemergence, after years of sputtering, has instilled a new bravado at the studio, which was feeling like an inferior backwater to pixar, says tom sito, a former disney animator. His story features a memorable cast of characters math nerds, avantgarde artists, cold warriors, hippies, video game enthusiasts, and studio executives. Several notable books and articles were written during the 1990s and 2000s on the subject of animation as an important cultural site. Drawing the line is a fantastic news report on the film and animation industry. In moving innovation, tom sito himself an animator and industry insider for more than thirty years describes the evolution of cg. Oct 06, 2006 tom sito reanimates the production struggles of disney artists and animators. Tom sito was born on may 19, 1956 in brooklyn, new york, usa. Tom sito is the chair for the division of animation and digital arts at usc, woodbury college, and ucla and has written numerous articles for animation magazine and animation world network. Computer graphics or cg has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. It also contains an interview with sito about the writing process and the people he met and events he witnessed. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world. Be a fly on the wall as industry leaders bill kroyer and tom sito take us through insightful facetoface interviews, revealing, in these two volumes, the journeys of 23 worldclass directors as they candidly share their experiences and personal views on the process of making feature animated films. Copies of timing for animation have been sitting dogeared and spinesplit on desks and workstations around the world, wherever animation is produced for more than 25 years. Tom sito has written numerous articles in animation magazine and animation world network and is the author of three books.
Drawing the line is the first labor history of an industry whose principle figureswalt disney, chuck jones, and max fleischerhelped define american entertainment. Tom sito has worked in most of the varied nooks and crannies of the animation industry animator, board artist, story supervisor, to name a few since the mid1970s born in new york city, tom commenced his career in cartoons with raggedy ann and andy, an animated feature helmed by richard williams, and has never looked back. Aug 10, 2001 osmosis jones is like the dark side of those animated educational films depicting the goingson in the bowels. There are a lot of books about computer graphics, but some demand more attention than others. My screen credits include who framed roger rabbit, beauty and the beast, shrek, and osmosis jones. These sights are depicted in colorful, gloppy, drippy animation, and then we switch to live action for the outside of the body in. The 2e is fully updated for digital workflows, by tom sito, animator of beauty and the beast and shrek. Sitos book is a celebration of the works from legendary animation artists from around the world.
It began in 1963 when an mit graduate student named ivan sutherland created sketchpad, the first true computer animation program. Based on numerous archival documents, personal interviews, and his own experiences, sitos history of animation unions is both carefully analytical and deeply personal. Clutching the wrinkly knees of the old masters of hollywoods golden age, i learned many of their secrets. Tom sito april, 2020 april 12, 2020 admin 0 comments animation, roy disney, tom sito this week, team mousetalgia welcomes animation legend tom sito to the show to talk about his long career as an. Sito will take you through the history behind recipes from the cookbooks of disney legends, including mary blair, frank thomas, and ward kimball, and more contemporary disney innovators, including pixars chief creative officer pete docter and. Tom sitos animation credits include the little mermaid, beauty and the beast, aladdin, the lion king, who framed roger rabbit, the prince of egypt, shrek, and looney tunes. Among his influences there were harvey kurtzman, will eisner and robert beverly hale. A timetested classic, this triedandtrue reference is often used as a textbook in cartooning workshops, and beginning and professional cartoonists alike are known to have copies of cartoon animation in their libraries. Join facebook to connect with tom sito and others you may know. He explains how he ended up writing this book on the disney strike of 1941.
Mousetalgia is a podcast for disney fans about disneyland, disney in society, and disney trivia and history. Most have done more than one and most have been behind some the biggest animated features ever. Sep 02, 2009 tom sito is the chair for the division of animation and digital arts at usc, woodbury college, and ucla and has written numerous articles for animation magazine and animation world network. The former president of americas largest animation union, sito offers a unique insiders account of. This book is accessible to those who dont know about the personalities in animation but is detailed enough to interest the animation history buff. G7 animation is the culmination of years of expert experience in the animation business and merges the talents of tom tataranowicz, deborah zak, leila tilghman, dennis venizelos, lou scheimer, bernie wrightson, bob kline, bob schaefer, rik maki, dick sebast, rich arons, and ed wexler.
Tom sito reanimates the production struggles of disney artists and animators. Tom sitos prolific career as animator includes work on several disney features including who framed roger rabbit, the little mermaid, the lion king, and aladdin as well as shrek, the prince of egypt, and spirit, the stallion of the cimmaron for dreamworks animation. Osmosis jones is like the dark side of those animated educational films depicting the goingson in the bowels. In drawing the line, veteran animator tom sito chronicles the efforts of generations of working men and women artists who have struggled to create a stable standard of living that is as secure as the worlds their characters inhabit.
Born in new york city, tom commenced his career in cartoons with raggedy ann and andy, an animated feature helmed by richard williams, and has never looked back. Tom sitos history of computer animation ivan sutherland demonstrates sketchpad, 1963. Animate it right the first time with these tried and tested techniques. Animation world network fred patten it isnt often that i read a text book that is a real page turner, but tom sitos new book moving innovation, a history of computer animation is definitely a mustread. Producer ron diamond commissioned animation feature directors bill kroyer and tom sito to do 23 interviews with the biggest and best names working today. The studio is closely associated with the looney tunes and merrie melodies characters, among others. Sito got a lot of his information straight from the animators who lived the history. Buy, sell and read ebooks, textbooks, academic materials, magazines, documents and other digital content on redshelf, the html5 cloud reader and marketplace. It takes us inside the human body for a tour of such uncharted neighborhoods as the lower east backside, and such useful organs as the puke button. In 20, tom sito published moving innovation, a history of computer animation through mit press. A classic of animation education since it first published in 1981.
Overlapping action it is usually a good idea in animation to have a time lag between the movements of diff erent parts of the fi gure. The untold story of the animation unions from bosko to bart simpson, which has been hailed as a seminal work on the history of the labor movement in american animation. As walt disney turned his fashionable packard roadster onto buena vista blvd. Tom and his mother mary were part of a refugee group fleeing from the vikings, taking shelter in castle wyvern. The untold story of animation unions from bosko to bart simpson, and moving innovation. Tom sito the legendary animator behind who framed roger rabbit, beauty and the beast, and other classic works brings together the perfect fusion of culinary skill and animation in his cookbook, eat, drink, animate. Hollywood way burbank, ca 91505 818 8457500 contact. My name is tom sito and i am an animator, storyboard artist and animation historian. Author tom sito, disney animator and former president of the hollywood animation guild, draws on oral histories, archival information, and firsthand knowledge of the animation.
Cartoons, the studio which produced looney tunes and merrie melodies cartoon shorts from 1933 to 1963, and from 1967 to 1969. On this day 75 years ago, disney animation changed forever. He has been married to pat sito since january 4, 1980. Storyboard deadlines storyboard timelines animation guild.
Interviews by bill kroyer and tom sito created and edited by ron diamond published. An animators cookbook, on sunday, january 19, 2020 from 2pm to 4pm for a toon talk and signing to follow eat, drink, animate. All kidding aside, every animation artist should read tom sitos book drawing the line. Disney animation history drawing the line tom sito. Dec 19, 2019 exceptions to the rule include the many contributions of historians and cultural critics such as maureen furniss, tom sito and esther leslie. Aug 23, 2015 my name is tom sito and i am an animator, storyboard artist and animation historian.
Animation is an american animation studio owned by warner bros. A history of computer animation this story is about the book tom sito write, called moving innovation, that provides a look at the history of computer animation. Currently i am a professor of animation at the cinema school of the university of southern california. Tom, also known as the guardian of the eggs, is a character from gargoyles. All the vital techniques employed by animators worldwide are explained using dozens of clear illustrations and simple, straightforward directions. In this comprehensive title, famed animator preston blair shares his.
Get straight to the good stuff with simple, nononsense instruction on the key techniques like stretch and squash, animated cycles, overlapping, and anticipation. Tom sito, considered one of the hundred most important people in animation by animation magazine, is the creator of this cookbook that celebrates the works of other legendary animation artists from around the world. By that time, the bob thomas the art of animation book was apparently forgotten, because the latter did it. It was the civil war of animation, said tom sito, former president of the animation guild local 839, and a disney animatorstory artist in the 1980s and 90s. The directors perspective features face to face indepth interviews by bill kroyer and tom sito with such prominent directors as nick park, pete doctor, brad bird and brenda chapman. Computer graphics is the difference between steamboat willie and buzz lightyear, between ping pong and pong. A history of computer animation by tom sito with an element of anticipation in the hope that this text would clarify the complex evolution of computer graphics cg. Tom sito has worked in most of the varied nooks and crannies of the animation industry animator, board artist, story supervisor, to name a few since the mid1970s. Tom sito revisits the civil war of animation and tells how the great walt disney cartoonists strike of 1941 changed the course of animation and comics. Being of a generation for which computers represented the future, it is a bit unsettling that a book on the history of computer animation could be written. Tom sito has been a professional animator since 1975.
This is the one sourcebook that cartooning and animation enthusiasts have been clamoring about for years. An animators cookbook features more than 80 handson recipesfrom cocktails to dessertsfavored by acclaimed animators both past and present. Drawing the line stands as a vital corrective to this field of hollywood history and is an important look at the animation industrys past, present, and future. The untold story of the animation unions from bosko to bart simpson and professor of cinema practice in the. Jul 19, 2005 tom sito revisits the civil war of animation and tells how the great walt disney cartoonists strike of 1941 changed the course of animation and comics. Tom sitos new book is the definitive take on computer animation history and cgs rapid rise. Mar 05, 2019 tom sito the legendary animator behind who framed roger rabbit, beauty and the beast, and other classic works brings together the perfect fusion of culinary skill and animation in his cookbook, eat, drink, animate. Tom sito is an adjunct professor of animation at usc, woodbury college, and ucla and has written numerous articles for animation magazine and animation world network.