Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.
I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons.
You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.
I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.
I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist, but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.
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