Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Media: Winter 2006 Illustration Roundup
If you would like to help us spread the word about the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, please link to one of our Winter '06 roundup posts (Animated Cartoons / Animation Art / Illustration) on your own webpage or blog. Thanks!
One of the aspects sorely missing from a lot of current animation is good design. Too many television shows and features rely on rehashing designs that have outlived their effectiveness. For the past few months, we've been gathering together galleries of images by some of the best illustrators of the 20th century. Each one has an unique approach that can be applied to design for animation. Today, I will be rounding up the Illustration related Media posts from the last four months... Click on the links and images for the full posting.
Golden Books are a wonderful resource for color and background painting style. We digitized several beautiful Golden Books by Tibor Gergely ( Gergely's Golden Books / More Gergely Golden Books )...
We featured Golden Book adaptations of two classic 1960s TV Cartoons... Huckleberry Hound and Rocky And His Friends...
We spotlighted two classic books by Mary Blair ( Little Verses Part One / Part Two / Baby's House )
We showed the progression of Gustav Tenggren's style, from Small Fry And The Winged Horse to The Little Trapper...
And several postings featuring one of the greatest book illustrators of the golden age, Edmund Dulac... ( Edgar Allen Poe's Poetical Works / Tanglewood Tales / Hans Christian Andersen Part One )
We featured the work of the classic children's book illustrator Kay Nielsen ( Twelve Dancing Princesses / East of the Sun and West of the Moon / Hansel and Gretel )
We digitized a fun collection of scifi, horror and adventure lobby cards from Mexico...
Finally, we digitized jaw droppingly amazing images by Boris Artzybasheff from his long out of print book, As I See. ( Neurotica / Machinalia / Diablerie )
Over the next week, I'll be rounding up our Winter posts on Cartooning, and Biographies. These roundups aren't provided just to entertain you... I want you to think about what these posts mean to you. If you value them, you'll do your part to help the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive reach its goals.
We Need Your Help!
Last month, we posted letters from June Foray and Leonard Maltin urging you to support this project. June and Nancy Cartwright gave a short presentation on the Archive in front of nearly 1000 of animation's top talents at the Annie Awards. We asked people who could not afford to make a monetary donation to Write A Letter Of Support.
Response has been disappointing. The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive will not be able to continue without your support. At the top of each post is a quick list of suggestions for how you can help...
Bookmark our HOME PAGE, COMMENT using the link at the bottom of each post, lend us ARTWORK to be digitized, Write a BIOPEDIA ENTRY or LETTER OF SUPPORT, CONTRIBUTE to sustain the project, VOLUNTEER to help us reach our goals, LINK TO US on your own webpage or blog, and TELL YOUR FRIENDS.
If you aren't familiar with the goals of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, look in the sidebar under ABOUT THE ARCHIVE... You'll find our Project Mission, an explanation of Why An Animation Archive Is Important, and an outline of What We Have Achieved So Far.
If you find this resource to be valuable, I hope you will acknowledge that with your donations and your support.
from people like you. Please contribute...
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive
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posted by Stephen Worth @ 6:04 PM
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4 Comments:
Cheers, Animation Archive. We've added you to our links.
We received this anonymous message today...
Please, stop with the guilt trip. You won't get more support this way. It would also be a good idea to create a better-looking link button.
It's not a guilt trip... it's the truth. The archive is currently operating in the red. ASIFA-Hollywood is picking up the slack for now, but that isn't going to last long, because ASIFA's resources are limited.
There are a lot of us who are pouring our sweat equity into this project. We've accomplished a lot with very little so far. We want to be able to be in operation five days a week, so we can reach critical mass on the database sooner. That isn't going to happen unless more people- people like you- step up to the plate and support the project, either financially or through volunteering your time and talents. And people like you aren't going to help out if we don't let you know that we need your help.
I'm pretty confident that your name doesn't appear in the list of our Project Angels and Heros. All right... perhaps you can't afford to donate right now. Volunteers are just as important as donors... You suggest making a better link button... Why not back up what you have to say by designing a better link button for us? Help us think of more effective ways to reach potential donors and spread the word about the archive... Do SOMETHING to help.
However, if you aren't interested in pitching in and helping, and just want to make anonymous snipes like this, you might as well find more productive ways to spend your time. We're going to build this archive without you.
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive
One thing you could do encourage people to be more supportive is, for instance, to link back to individuals who have linked to ASIFA.
Another is to answer individually to each comment. Lots of people feel slighted when you don't answer their comments/emails, and feel jealous if you single out just one person's comment and leave out the others.
These are simple ways of making people feel good about coming to your site and supporting your project.
It's a psychological mistake to scold them and tell your readers that you are disappointed in them, as if you were their parents or they owed it to you somehow, when in fact you are asking them for a favour.
It would also be helpful to get someone who is skilled in human relations to deal with your readers' comments, someone who can handle both the compliments and the criticisms.
Wow this is some really great work. Thanks for sharing with us.
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