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[art-of-arcane]

ARCANE | Mel Texturing & Concept Art | Evan Monteiro

[dannyreviews]

Animation Professionals Over 90 Still Alive

10 years ago, Cartoon Brew had an article about animators from the Golden Age and beyond over a certain age still living.

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/who-are-the-oldest-living-animation-artists-88196.html

Unfortunately, the lion's share of that group have since passed away, save for a handful of names. For this post, I would like to highlight (in age order) those from studios like Disney, Warner Brothers as well as independent bases that are around today who represent the last living links to old school animation. These include artists, directors and writers. Exclusive voice actors or animated music composers are not counted.

Vera Linnecar (b. 1923) Halas/Bachelor, Bob Godfrey

Enid Wizig (b. 1923) Warner Brothers (Update: Passed Away on February 12, 2026)

Joe Hale (b. 1925) Disney (Update: Passed Away on January 29, 2025)

Lillian Schwartz (b. 1927) Independent (Update: Passed Away on October 12, 2024)

Witold Giersz (b. 1927) Independent

Bob Singer (b. 1928) Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera

Yoji Kuri (b. 1928) Independent (Update: Passed Away on November 24, 2024)

Robert Verrall (b. 1928) National Film Board of Canada (Update: Passed Away on January 17, 2025)

Peter Maddocks (b. 1928) Independent (Update: Passed Away on November 20, 2024)

Zdeňka Deitchová (b. 1928) Gene Deitch

Art Leonardi (b. 1929) Warner Brothers, MGM

Jules Feiffer (b. 1929) Paramount, Terrytoons (Update: Passed Away on January 17, 2025)

Don Iwerks (b. 1929) Disney

Phil Roman (b. 1930) Chuck Jones, Fox, Independent

Howard Beckerman (b. 1930) Famous Studios, Terrytoons, Independent (Update: Passed Away on June 29, 2024)

R.O. Blechman (b. 1930) Terrytoons, Independent

Stan Hayward (b. 1930) Bob Godfrey

Joseph Koenig (b. 1930) National Film Board of Canada

Jack Heiter (b. 1930) Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, UPA

Rein Raamat (b. 1931) Independent

Ed Seeman (b. 1931) Paramount (Update: Passed Away on February 14, 2025)

Fred Wolf (b. 1932) Independent

Brian Trueman (b. 1932) BBC (Update: Passed Away on September 1, 2024)

Fumio Kurokawa (b. 1932) Nippon Animation (Update: Passed Away on April 10, 2024)

Yvonne Andersen (b. 1932) Independent

Masaki Tsuji (b. 1932) Mushi, Toen, TMS

Dean Tavoularis (b. 1932) Disney

Doris A. Plough (b. 1932) Disney, Don Bluth, Hanna-Barbera, Fox

Inessa Kovalevskaya (b. 1933) Soyuzmultfilm

Boris Kolar (b. 1933) Independent (no other photo available)

Update (12/23): Adding Virginia Fleener (b. 1922) Disney

[nicotroti]

For the past couple of years I’ve been working developing this project with my dear friend Mathieu Vernerie. Let’s see where 2019 takes us !

[zorak-phd]

I really hate what Savino did and I hope he’s held accountable for his actions but Cartoonbrew and others shouldn’t be trying to use this incident to try and get the loud house canceled or shunning those that still like it, just because you like the show doesn’t mean you support Savino’s actions of sexual assaulting people or Savino himself, especially after he’s already been fired off of it already. Savino is not the loud house, stop trying to spread the idea that by liking, watching or continuing the show, that you approve of his horrible actions.

[yasmincowenbcu]

IMMERSION - Lalita Lupina

‘Tommy's trip to the indoor swimming pools. As he struggles he produces a pool filled with his anxiety.’

I really enjoyed watching this animation even though I don’t normally like this cartoon style. I liked the different take on the theme of dealing with anxiety, in a different setting to how it can normally be portrayed. The changes in perspective are really interesting, how they’re all separated in different shapes but on the same frame, but it’s still easy to follow the narrative. It’s similar to how comics are constructed but in an animation sense, which I haven’t seen before. Some of these techniques could be interesting in my Pandora project, if not, one of my editorials. 

[re-anastasia]

Don Bluth and Gary Goldman's 'Anastasia' Is 20 Years Old Today

Made at the height of the 2d animation boom in the United States, "Anastasia" was the highest-grossing film that Don Bluth and Gary Goldman ever made.

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[lattetimes]

So the guy who wrote the article about Savino on CartoonBrew is trying to guilt trip the entire writting staff of tlh into quitting their jobs by saying that it's also their fault this happened. Like aren't they victims too? And getting jobs in animation is hard enough.

unless they outright said that they didn’t try to stop Savino or they didn’t feel a need to attempt to help the victims, then they should be fired or put on suspension then take classes on these kinds of instances. 

CartoonBrew has become incredibly biased for a while now- the guy runnin’ the thing is hella biased towards specific shows. here’s a 10-minute video about it that sort-of explains what i mean a bit more.

[yasbxxgie]

One of the great virtuosic performances of animation history: Emery Hawkins' The Greedy sequence from "Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure" (1977) that takes full advantage of the possibilities for metamorphosing and surrealism within the artform. 

Disney animator Ward Kimball called this five-and-a-half minute segment "one of the greatest animated sequences of all time … Why I say this is because I would never be able to conceive and do a thing like that."