Interview with Jeff Miracola - Inside The Deck #127

Official website: jeffmiracola.com

 [...] My name is Jeff Miracola. I have been working as a freelance illustrator since 1993 for companies such as Wizards of the Coast, inc., Topps, Scholastic, Target, Hasbro, Inc., Upper Deck Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Inc., 3D Total Magazine, ImagineFX Magazine, Advanced Photoshop Magazine, and many more.

Please feel free to browse my portfolio, read my blog for my latest news or learn a little more about me from my biography. If you have any questions or would like to commission me for work, please contact me.

- Jeff Miracola

(from  jeffmiracola.com )

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A Tribute to Moebius

His work exposed me to a vast universe of infinite dreaming. Farewell to one of the greatest revolutionaries in European illustrative art ...

Music: 
 "La Mer"  by 

Nine Inch Nails

Jean Giraud, "Moebius".

Meta: Join The Creative League - [Creative League, Los Angeles area ]

http://animationresources.org/creativeleague/

The Animation Creative League is a group of cartoonists, film makers and other like-minded creative folks who are interested in building a community to support independent animation in the Los Angeles area.

creativeleague@animationarts.org

The Animation Creative League Clubhouse

The Creative League currently meets once a month for networking, informal discussion, screenings, friendly critique of work in progress, and guest speakers. The topics of the meetings will cover the full spectrum of creativity- music, art, cartooning, dance, filmmaking, animation, comedy and drama. The goal is to inspire and empower independent animation creators. Because of space limitations in our screening room, as well as to facilitate open discussion, attendance at the meetings is strictly limited to just 12 people. As the group grows, we will add additional Saturday meetings during the month to accomodate more people.

The calendar of Creative League events is posted in the sidebar of this site to the left, and also on the Facebook group page titled “Animation Creative League”. Attendance at Creative League meetings is by invitation only. To reserve a confirmation to attend, you must email the group administrator Taber Dunnipace at creativeleague@animationarts.org for information. Space is limited. As a courtesy to the rest of the members of our group, do not request a confirmation if you do not plan to attend, and let us know immediately if your plans change so we can offer your space to another member.

If you are interested in participating in this group, please contact the group administrator, Taber Dunnipace at…

creativeleague@animationarts.org

…and join the Animation Creative League Facebook Group to get notifications of all calendar dates.

Thank you

Stephen Worth

Director

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Instruction: Preston Blair’s Advanced Animation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Blair

http://animationresources.org/instruction-preston-blairs-advanced-animation/

 

Preston Blair (October 24, 1908–April 19, 1995) was an American character animator, most noted for his work at Walt Disney Productions and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation department

A native of Redlands, California, Blair began his animation career in the early 1930s at the Universal studio under Walter Lantz and Bill Nolan. He later moved over to Charles Mintz's Screen Gems studio, and in the late 1930s moved over to the Disney studio. At Disney, Blair animated cartoon short subjects, Mickey Mouse scenes in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" section of Fantasia, and the hippo-alligator dance in Fantasia's "Dance of the Hours" sequence. He also did some work on Walt Disney's Pinocchio and Bambi.

Blair left Disney after the 1941 Disney animator's strike, and was hired to work for Tex Avery's unit at MGM. There, he became particularly noted for animating the titular female character in Red Hot Riding Hood. "Red" later re-appeared in more Avery cartoons, including Swing Shift Cinderella, Little Rural Riding Hood, Uncle Tom's Cabana and the Droopy cartoons The Shooting of Dan McGoo and Wild and Woolfy, with animation by Blair. In the late 1940s, Blair teamed with Avery animatorMichael Lah to direct several Barney Bear cartoons.

Blair continued his career in animation into the 1960s, working on The Flintstones at Hanna-Barbera. He is most noted, however, as an author of animation instructional books for Walter Foster Publishing. His first book, Animation, was published in 1948 and originally included images of the famous MGM & Disney cartoon characters he had animated, who were redrawn to obscure their origins in the second edition of the book. Blair would write many more animation how-to texts over the next forty years, culminating with 1994's Cartoon Animation, a 224-page book which compiles most of the content from all of his books.

Preston Blair was the brother of artist Lee Everett Blair [1] and the brother-in-law of artist and designer Mary Blair. He died on April 19, 1995.

External links

• Preston Blair at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by or about Preston Blair in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Giraud (Moebius), Kubert & Adams - [Tac au tac (30-9-1972)]

A New York, les dessinateurs Neal ADAMS, Joe KUBERT et Jean GIRAUD (Moebius) improvisent sur le thème de l'attaque de héros et de monstres. Puis chacun dessine son héros favori en situation : GIRAUD dessine Blueberry, ADAMS son héros Dead Man et KUBERT Tarzan dont il a repris les aventures.

Tac au tac - 30/09/1972

Jean Giraud (Moebius), Joe Kubert & Neal Adams – Tac au tac (30-9-1972)

In Search of Moebius (BBC 4 Documentary) -

Documentary about Frenchman Jean Giraud, one of the most influential comic strip illustrators and authors of all time and also one of the genre's best kept secrets. He achieved his greatest fame under the pseudonym/alter ego Moebius, and his artistic influence extends beyond Europe to the USA and Japan. Features interviews with Giraud himself, Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee, American comic book artists Jim Lee and Mike Mignolla and many others.

Benché possa apparire improprio proporre un autore francese come il grande Moebius in un blog che parla di anime e manga, in realtà c'è un legame profondo tra Jean Giraud ed il mondo dell'illustrazione e dell'animazione americano e nipponico. Miyazaki è, ad esempio, un autore che ha sviluppato temi simili a quelli di Giraud, anche se, spesso, in maniera indipendente. Basti pensare alle macchine volanti di Nausicaa o di Laputa per trovare un legame con certe illustrazioni di Giraud.

Comunque, la grandezza dell'inventiva di Moebius, molto intrisa di avanguardia e surrealismo, è sicuramente immensa e non conosce eguali al mondo.