Studio Talks - Composition (III)
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(I added an illustration I had forgotten to yesterday's post!)
Børge Ring - mentor and playmate.
Working with Børge was fun, hard, boring, exciting, unusual, normal, and most of all educational. Over a year before leaving high school, in March 1978 I found out he lived in my neighborhood from a tv program about him and his wife Joanika. So I found him in the phone book (remember those?) and called him up. While studying art history, for a year I was his "pupil" doing animation tests, dropping by and having him correct them. Then, fed up with my art history professors, I moved my animation desk with my Neilson-Hordell disc into his Blaricum attic! (I am pointing at it in this photo taken last year:) Here, for almost four years, from March 1980 to November 1983 I smelled of his Douwe Egberts Red Amphora pipe tobacco and every day incl. weekends, Christmas and New Year from 10 to 6 we worked to the sound of BBC World Service if there were no jazz songs he had to listen to over and over again for an upcoming gig. I started doing simple non-production tests from his animation...
Hans,
ReplyDeleteWell well well...you have solved a mystery (to me) of many long years.
Many years ago, in first year animation at Sheridan, Bill Matthews gave us a some handouts. I kept them all this time, because they had some of the best info ever on layout. No other books showed some of these things. I always wondered where they came from. (Should have asked Bill, i've had enough opportunity over the years) I always thought they were from The Art of Walt Disney by Feild, but no.
I refer to the plates, I haven't seen the typewritten pages before, or heard of the book by Haas. Nice to know you can learn something even at this stage in the career. Thanks, hans, I owe you a drink some day.