Thursday, July 7, 2011

The Other Half Passed...

Drawing angles for four decades...


Forty years ago today, Ub Iwerks passes away in Burbank, California...

With the exception of Walt Disney, he was the one person most responsible for the creation of Mickey Mouse. Iwerks was a legendary animation pioneer and helped Walt turn the animation medium into the art form it is today. Animation fans in general and Disney fans in particular, truly owe this great man a world of gratitude.

Animation and Disney itself would look very different without his fingerprints...

1 comment:

Cory Gross said...

I love Ub!

If one wants to see how important his influence was, just look at the dreck that Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony cartoons turn into once he left in 1930. His style and draftsmanship was amazing and he's the #1 person I've tried to study to improve my own drawing.