Monday, May 02, 2011

Talking to Cliff Voorhees

Caricature by Larry Eikleberry.
Cliff Voorhees launched his career at Walt Disney Productions working on Lady and The Tramp. Nothing too different about that from lots of other artists, but then Cliff veered off to study at Chouinard Art Institute and launch into the rigors of drawing a daily comic strip ...

TAG Interview with Cliff Voorhees

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It was sometime later, after a long stretch in the fields of advertising and comic books, that Cliff returned to animation, where he spent several decades boarding and designing for most of the major Los Angeles cartoon studios.

We spoke in the conference room of the Animation Guild.

A Cliff Voorhees panel of Disney's Beagle Boys, for Western Publishing. © Disney
A Cliff Voorhees panel of Disney's Beagle Boys, for Western Publishing. © Disney

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mr Voorhees was always someone who the younger artists at Filmation alway looked up to, and he was a pretty nice guy!

Anonymous said...

I second that! I've always admired Cliff's paintings.
He used to show me some of his artwork when we were at Filmation and I loved it.
Very inspirational.

Anonymous said...

I remember Cliff from Filmation-what a great guy! I wish him a healthy and happy retirement!

Anonymous said...

I'm a huge fan of his son Jason. Looking forward to seeing him next Friday the 13th.

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