Your favorite animator?

[Thalia-is-Crazy]

Glen Keane! No.... Milt Kahl! No... Frank Thomas?
TIED FOR FIRST!

But also,
I really Love Don Bluth's work.
So dark, and yet so... cute?
Who else does that in north american animation?

And I love his style of lip synch.

Anime is like the anti-synch, and Bluth, the super-synch.
The exaggerated head bobbing and wide open mouths ...ISH AWESOME!
I love drawing conversations and people talking and their reactions to things, and it's always exaggerated, because it's just way more fun.
So yeah
I love Bluth
even in spite of Troll in Central Park
and Pebble and the Penguin
and Thumbelina *gasp*
.
BTW i loved Rock-a-Doodle.

So yeah... Animators I respect/admire/think are awesome...
OH!
And Richard Williams. He's like my exact opposite, but he's so damn genious. Mastery of the trade of making stuff move...
And Eric Larson. *baddaboom*
And James Baxter. *humps leg*
I could keep going...

[P.C. Unfunny]

Art Davis and Preston Blair are my favorite animators.

[starlac]

Glen Keane - Modern day Disney's greatest character actor.

Ken Harris - One of Warner's premere golden-age animators.

Chuck Jones - A amazing animatior in his own right.

Andrea Deja - You got to love his wonderfully realised villains.

Milt Khan - The power behind Shere Khan... epp.

Chris Sanders - For inventing Stitch.

Preston Blair and Richard Williams for writing two wonderful books on the subject of how to animate.

List could go on and on.

And Richard Williams. He's like my exact opposite, but he's so damn genious. Mastery of the trade of making stuff move...

I should hope he would be, since he spent years being trained by Ken Harris and Milt Khan, not to mention other greats.

[Thalia-is-Crazy]

andreas deja and chris sanders WHOOT!

[Thalia-is-Crazy]

I meant he's a perfectionist, and I'm a slob... Usually I tend to prefer 'my own kind' over my opposites,
but who can deny the mastery of Richard Williams?

And damn right he's an animation demigod, and rightly deserving of the title. IMHO
Training is great and all, but training might make you perfect... It doesnt make you a perfectionist.
And that ambition is what drives you to become perfect in the first place

...
Perfect is a wrong word I think...

Skilled is better

Just overall.
But we ARE talking about Richard Williams here aren't we...

[starlac]

There is no denying that William’s is a fantastic animator that has done some impressive work, but it is very interesting in how he got there.

You should read William’s book "The Animator's Survival Kit" (unless you have already). It's part a instruction manual on animation technique and part an autobiography and it’s very insightful about both what William’s thought of his animation over the years and those that taught him thought of it.

For instance in the book he says that it took fifth-teen years of training under Ken Harris for him to proclaim to William’s that he “could be a good animator.” Of course Harris had been one of Chuck Jones main animators during the "Golden Age." Hey, even up to his death Harris was still finding silly little mistakes in William's work.

I highly recommend the book…

[lupercal]

Despite being based on a very small output, I'm tempted to say Yuri Norstein.

Loop

[Thalia-is-Crazy]

Yeah, I've read it.
It's the best animation book I've found, but I haven't read them all.. so who knows?

[Konan]

Frederic Back
Yuri Norstein
Henri Lacam
Bill Tytla
Yasuo Otsuka
Yasuji Mori

BTW, I'm sorry, but I hate Don Bluth with a passion.

[Thalia-is-Crazy]

to each his or her own ;)

Mind if I inquire why?
I'm always interested in what fuels peoples opinions, especially since I'm so green in animation.

[Konan]

to each his or her own ;)

Mind if I inquire why?
I'm always interested in what fuels peoples opinions, especially since I'm so green in animation.

To be totally honest, it's just that I don't like him or his work. IMHO, I'm not really attracted to his style of animation or storytelling. I don't hate him, I just don't like him. At least he's not terrible like Ralph Bakshi, I just feel that his films aren't special or unique in any way, except possibly NIMH, which is a solid but flawed piece of storytelling with good animation. He certainly isn't going to be remembered as one of the greats of animation from this era -- that's reserved for people like Sylvain Chomet, Nick Park, John Lasseter, Yuri Norstein, Frederic Back, and Hayao Miyazaki. I'm sorry, it's just my opinion -- I don't care for Don Bluth.

[Thalia-is-Crazy]

No need to apologize.

Yuri Norstein, Frederic Back....
I don't even know who they are XD

I haven't seen anything by Yuri Norstein, and don't know where I'd get ahold of it,
Frederic Back... Looked him up on IMDB.com
and I must be missing something...

Sylvain Chomet, did he do anything other than triplettes of belleville?
Which I didn't really care for anyways XD

People are not all the same, so of course our opinions will be different.
I am really very stupid, and there are a lot of things I don't know,
But I'm learning ;)

[Thalia-is-Crazy]

TI don't hate him, I just don't like him.
That's a far cry from "Hate with a passion"
I was really hoping for some juice! XD