With members like Matt, Alex, and DaMarco studying at the Memphis College of Art, you know that the Holiday Bazaar will be full of fantastic art! Get great art for a minimal price. Cheese and wine will be catered by Bosco’s, and I know that DaMarco will be participating as one of Santa’s Elves to help you carry your purchases to the cars. Click the image below to learn more.
CARTOONIST/ANIMATOR BILL PLYMPTON visited the Memphis College of Art this month, and DaMarco Randle has written a re-cap to accompany his photographs:
Bill Plympton is considered one of the more clever and original animators.
As a child born and raised in Portland, OR, his dream was to draw with his fanatacism ‘drawn’ to Walt Disney with whom he felt animation died. During that time (1966), there weren’t any animation classes so any artistic advances had to be self-taught. “To be an illustrator, you must do two things: think of ideas fast and draw fast.”
As times got hard, he decided to publish his own stories, which included drawing the sketches and scanning them into the computer, then composing them together.
In 1985, he published his first animated film called “Boomtown,” which taught him that to be a good animator “you must have a good sense of humor.” Since then, Plympton has been the topic of discussion at San Diego Comic Con, even now having been Oscar nominated for his short film in the 2005 Kanye West video Hear ‘em Say.
You can see clips of his cartoons on his official website by clicking his image below.
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