There are a bajillion different goat paths into the scented uplands of the animation business, but veteran background artist Bob Schaefer's entryway was probably unique ...
TAG Interview with Bob Schaefer
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Bob was a young man with a sign company in Bakersfield, California, gifted with a steady hand and a keen eye. Also a knack for pinstriping, sign painting, and applying gold leaf to windows.
He was making an okay living at his trade, but thought he should stretch for something more. And lo, a friend who worked at a cartoon studio in distant Hollywood called to say that the studio was in need of a title painter, and fast. So Bob loaded into his sign truck and drove to Southern California.
Over a long and hectic weekend Bob turned out a lot of title art for Hanna-Barbera. On Sunday, Bill Hanna came in and looked at what he was doing, liked what he saw, and offered Mr. Schaefer a longer term job on the spot.
For the next four-plus decades, Mr. Schaefer was seldom out of work, moving from titles to background work within a few years. Bob credits his success to hard work and a natural gift for painting all manner of surfaces, first evidenced while he was a teenager in Bakersfield.
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1 comments:
What he says right at the end before the audio cuts off says EVERYTHING you need to understand about digital art itself, and why those like me resent it!
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