Google Pays Tribute to Winsor McCay
Posted on October 15, 2012 at 12:38 pm
I am so happy that Google is paying tribute to one of my favorite artists, Winsor McCay, creator of Little Nemo in Slumberland
McCay also invented animation.
He was the one who figured out that if movies were just a series of still pictures, he could draw a series of still pictures and make a movie out of them. He personally drew thousands of pictures for his first animated movie, about Gertie the Dinosaur.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY40DHs9vc4I was enchanted by the short films inspired by McCay Roger Ebert showed us at Ebertfest this year. This one is by Thomas Edison, circa 1904.
And I am proud to be a Kickstarter supporter of animator Bill Plympton’s new film about McCay.
, about a trip to South America that Walt Disney and his colleagues took just before America entered WWII, is when Mary Blair invents what would become the defining style for Disney’s next decade. Mary Blair and her husband Lee, both talented artists and designers, had almost indistinguishable styles before they left on the trip. But something she saw on that tour inspired her to develop a more stylized, simplified, colorful, approach to design, as shown in the tribute book, 
. The modernity of the images in films like “Peter Pan” and “Alice in Wonderland” was due to her influence, which can also be seen throughout the theme parks in rides like “It’s A Small World.”
