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Originally Posted by Grimhelm  Ugh. Yes. He is quite the blow hard. Any time someone sets out to tell me what is right and wrong in art, without truly credible arguments or examples to back up his argument, I immediately close my mind to him. He constantly refers to being "more artistic", yet he offers no real definition of what that means. All he offers is his biases then, perhaps due to his successes, mistakently equates this with a valid argument. |
That's exactly how I reacted to it years ago and often still do. On the other hand, I so enjoy his work that I continually go back to his site to see what he's doing and what he's thinking about. The constant provocation really challenges me to question, defend and often reform my preconceptions about illustration, animation and art in general. If anything, it's made me more broad-minded about artistic expression and I love that it's made me more observant and appreciative of animation technique -- which is why I posted the first thread: I never ever considered the challenges of drawing wrinkles -- who else but an artist would? It's also interesting to see his little history lesson about the evolution of wrinkles in animation.