The Inkling Chronicles

Roger Rabbit , LA Crew photo , 1988

Jenny Lerew's posting of Steve Hickner's photo of a post-Oscar lunch reunion between Dick Williams and some of the London animation crew of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" who had relocated to L.A. prompted me to look for my copy of the L.A. Roger Rabbit crew photo.  (someone in the comments section of Jenny's blog had wondered if the photo she posted was of the L.A. Roger crew; I then posted in a response that it wasn't the L.A. crew, but that I would try to find and post the L.A crew photo.)

Well, here it is.  As it turns out, I couldn't find my copy (it's in some box in "the archives" I know, but I can't lay my hands on it),  but through the help of my friend (and fellow Roger Rabbit crew member) Eric Daniels I was able to get a scan of the L.A. Roger Rabbit crew photo.  Eric actually got it from another Roger Rabbit crew member, animator Bruce Smith ( Eric and Bruce are presently both hard at work on "The Princess & The Frog" at Disney's) .  Thanks guys !    

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I'll work on getting full ID's on everyone in this photo posted later, but in the meantime have fun pointing out who you recognize.

  

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UPDATE:  Ok, I took a first pass at trying to ID everyone in the photo above.  I think I did pretty well considering this was over 20 years ago ... but I did come up blank on some names.  Anyone who can fill in the missing names please comment.  Thanks.

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Here the ID's I've made:

First row kneeling or sitting, moving from left-to-right : 

Dave Bossert, Gregory Hinde, Gilda Palinginis, Mike Genz, Dean Cundey, unknown, David Craig, unknown, Bill Frake , Madlyn O'Neill, Laura Craig, unknown, unknown, Dave Spafford, unknown, Brenda Chapman, Ed Bell.

Second row standing on ground level , left-to-right: Unknown, unknown, Cindy Finn, unknown, unknown, unknown, Kent Holaday, unknown, unknown, Ann Marie Costa, unknown, Margaret Nichols, unknown, Karen Comella, unknown, Ron Rocha, Jane Baer, Dale Baer. 

Third row standing on ground level:  Bruce Smith, Ed Murrieta, Barry Temple, unknown, Dave Thomson, Renee Holt, Brett Newton.

On stairs, behind the first post(standing): Umberto De La Fuente.

Going up the stairs, first row sitting: Ron Dias, Lori Noda, Frans Vischer, David Nethery, Matt O'Callaghan, M.J. Turner, Dan Chaika, Glenn Chaika, Randy Fullmer, Carl Bell.

Group at top of stairs : Gisele Recinos, Don Paul, Mac Torres (?) (behind Don Paul) , Christine Harding , Eric Daniels, Kent Culotta, Sib Torres.

Going up stairs , second row: unknown, unknown, Gary Shafer, Dave Pacheco, Nancy Kniep, Bette Isis Thomson, unknown, Teresa Martin, Dolly Baker, Mavis Shafer, Allyson Rubin, Allen Blyth, Scott Santoro, Mark Kausler, Kathy Barrows-Fullmer.

Sheridan College - "Half the Time, Twice the Pressure"

This is the brochure that Sheridan College had put out around 1979 - '80 to promote the "International Summer School of Animation" .  The program was created so that non-Ontario residents and foreign students could attend the popular Character Animation program at Sheridan College's School of Visual Arts in Oakville, Ontario.   As a U.S. citizen I couldn't get into the regular Winter/Spring terms at Sheridan, so I was told that I should apply to the Summer School.  The Summer program basically crammed the entire curriculum for each Year of the (then) 3-Year Sheridan program in Classical Animation into three 15-week summer terms.  We attended for three consecutive summer terms and ended up with the same Diploma in Classical Animation as everyone else who went through Sheridan's regular animation program which was spread out over the normal Winter/Spring terms.

At one point someone in the summer program (I think it was Tahsin Özgür)  made up a logo and motto for the Summer School which was a take off on the Blackwing pencil motto "Half the Pressure, Twice the Speed " ... for the Sheridan Summer School the motto was changed to an image of a Blackwing pencil with the words :  "Half the Time, Twice the Pressure" , to reflect the intensive nature of the accelerated summer program.  I used to have that logo on a T-shirt , but somewhere along the line it's gone missing or I'd post a photo of it.  (Maybe one of my fellow International Summer School of Animation students will see this post and send me a photo of it if they still have one of the T-shirts or a print copy of the logo.)

Anyway, here are some images from the brochure that Sheridan College was using at the time (c. 1981) to promote The International Summer School of Animation.

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I'll post some more about Sheridan College in those days, but I've got to make the time to scan stuff.  In many ways the intensive nature of the summer course was the best thing that could have prepared us for the real world of animation production.  Everyone who was in the summer program really wanted to be there and the average age of the students in the summer school was much older than the typical 18 and 19 year olds who entered the regular program at Sheridan.  We were motivated and we lived, breathed, ate, drank animation every day during those summers.