Quotes by Marc Davis - Page 1

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.
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Dad
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What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.
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Animation
Invention
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Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.
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Animation
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I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!
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December
Walt
Disney
Joined
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Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.
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Died
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Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
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Experience
Ability
Artist
Body
Drawing
Giving
Actor
Performance
Limited
Perhaps
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I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on.
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Connections
Newspapers
Newspaper
Promised
Publisher
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Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market.
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Dependent
Snow
Snow White
Banks
Disney
Great Deal
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Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.
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Beginning
Direction
Project
Pirates
Sixties
Sketches
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His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today.
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Teeth
Walt
Disney
Financially
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It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.
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Drawing
Humans
Animals
Originally
Studio
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The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.
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Institute
Missouri
Summer
Attended
Professional
Received
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Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human characters. They just didn't have that many people who could draw humans.
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Humans
Snow
Snow White
Stuck
Term
Draw
First Job
Particularly
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At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.
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Business
Ability
Animated
Film
Unsuccessful
Words
Time Business People
Living
Cartoonists
Draw
Film Business
Guys
Practically
In Other Words
Mostly
Newspaper
Nil
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Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on.
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Department
Drawing
Animate
Develop
Throughout
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Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it.
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Drawing
Time Good Myself
Acquainted
Amuse
Attended
Different Schools
Latest
Pretty Good
Schools
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There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object.
Marc Davis /
Animate
Object
Three-Dimensional
Unless
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