Forgotten Art

Good morning ye good folk!

Once in college, we had a short module on a topic I never really paid attention to before. Our visiting faculty taught us an art form that was, in our case as students, often overlooked. The art of the animation background. (echoes…ooooh! aaaaah!)

I never realized its importance as I focused more on my main characters than anything else and it was only recently (well, in our last semester of college) that we realized that both require equal amounts of study and dedication.

above: backgrounds for my short animation “The Frog and the Nightingale”

And to push my point forward, I give you Rob Richards – a dedicated chap who, through his blog, has brought to our screens amazing and cleverly re-assembeled backgrounds from cartoons we know and love.