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A TRIBUTE TO ANIMATION MASTER RICHARD WILLIAMS
Clearly Dick loved working at Aardman. He loved the everyday contact with creative people. He loved to talk and share ideas and of course to tell anecdotes. He had a treasure chest of great stories about celebrities, in particular Disney’s Nine Old Men, about his life, his battles and his achievements, and he shared the stories around the lunch-table with pop-eyed glee and relish. Basically, he loved people. He was interested, attentive, enthusiastic and encouraging – very ready to share his enthusiasm for the work he saw at Aardman and to appreciate animation styles utterly different from his own.
Of course he was lucky in one crucial way: he had no responsibility except to himself and to ‘posterity’. His only producer, and the person who knew him best was Mo who also happened to be his greatest admirer and his wife. So Dick exemplified ‘pure creativity’. He seemed to us to work without compromise and for the sheer love of his chosen art-form. No deadlines, except the ones he set himself, nobody to please or answer to, except himself. But Dick didn’t need cajoling or motivating or inspiring because I’ve never in my life met someone so incredibly self-motivated, nor indeed so happy in his work as Dick was in this last chapter of
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Richard Williams obituary: a half-hidden animation master
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Among animation fans and professionals, Richard Williams – who died on August 16 aged 86 – was acclaimed and beloved, a great artist and generous teacher. Outside that community, much of Williams’s work is little ‘known’ in the conventional sense of the word, though it would be recognised by viewers of several generations. Williams created a plethora of animated title sequences for live-action films, mostly comedies including two Pink Panther films. His studio, Richard Williams Animation in London’s Soho Square, flooded small screens with outstanding animated TV commercials.
But such work, however meticulous, tends to be remembered subconsciously by audiences. By far Williams’s most visible work was for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), on which he was the animation director. An extraordinary blend of live-action, classical animation and film noir, the film was a blockbuster, second only to Rain Man at the 1988 box office. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film shows a discombobulated Bob Hoskins trudging a 1940s world where cartoon characters are real citizens. Hoskins can be yanked up by his tie by the scarlet torch-singer sex-goddess Jessica Rabbit (“I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way”); or
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