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Kirbopher
Animation Artist, creator of over 100 pieces of Flash animation on and offline. Graduate of the School of Visual Arts, Class of 2011.

Chris Niosi @Kirbopher

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Richard Williams at MoMa

Posted by Kirbopher - September 22nd, 2008


So today I went to the Richard Williams event at the Meuseum of Modern Art here in NYC, accompanied by the likes of Mike Luckas, Chris Zito and Mike Ruocco. A few more folks from Newgrounds wanted to make it, but sadly the tickets sold out incredibly fast so I'm not completely sure if they even got in. We were lucky enough to get ours super-early.

So the event was hosted by John Canemaker and went on for a good couple of hours. Essentially, the panel was a smooth switch between the discussions of John and 'Dick' and the questions that were posed to him (none were taken from the audience, though that may have been a good thing in retrospect) and a nice collection of clips from his work. We were shown the opening sequence to Roger Rabbit, the Title Sequence to the original Pink Panther movie as well as "The Charge of the Right Brigade" (the latter of which was REALLY neat), his own original cut of the Thief & the Cobbler trailer, the "Greedy" scene from the Raggedy Ann & Andy movie as well and one short scene from his version of A Christmas Carol.

Near the end, we also saw a few clips from his upcoming DVD version of the Animator's Survival Kit (I FINALLY picked up a copy of the original book for myself), specifically routines regarding lipsynch/dialouge and walk cycles/general fluid movement. I can already it's -very- in depth and comprehensive, so I'm hoping my school will manage to snag a copy. Along with that we were shown the last few bits of his commercial animation, which in this case, were LITERALLY commercials! In comparison to his other work I could tell they were kinda rushed jobs, but even on their own they put tons of animation done today, online or broadcast, to absolute shame.

As many would expect, he's also a very genuine and wise individual. Very humbling, accepting, but doesn't screw around at all, as I could tell from a few of the stories he shared with the audience about his work with various "interesting" producers, as well as other animators that NOW do some of the best stuff out there, or in a few cases, already have. It was incredibly inspiring and I'm more than certain SOMEBODY caught the entire thing on video, so keep your eyes peeled on the yootubb for a recording.

Afterward, my group 'o chums and I mingled around with a few of the people who attended. No luck finding any NG folk but plenty of teachers from my school were around and it was nice to interact with a few of them in that type of setting. We got a couple quick autographs after a 15 minute wait, and I got my sketchbook signed as well as a quick convo with the guy. He was very responsive and encouraging, so that was pretty spiffy.

Tommorrow another event will be going on, albeit not to the same level of extremity as the Richard Williams event, but a roundtable of animators talking about the state of the industry at my school. Hopefully I can see some NG folk there for that one. That's all I got for ya!


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Lucky. Sounds like you had a great time.... wish I lived in New York.

Nice, sounded like you had a lot of fun :D

Good to know all the work isnt getting to you

Man I wish I hadn't missed Richard Williams, but if they sold out that quick I might've just been disappointed. I might be at SVA tonight, though.

What rotten luck on my side...

I was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on that very day! I wanted to MoMA, but I had to write an article on an exhibit that left just the other day.

Oh, well. I bet, with my luck, you will also be at New York Anime Festival?

I'll be there all three days.

i just got super mario rpg ^^ and just beat it ^^ yay me :3 kirb u got super mario rpg? o.o

No, I totally don't have the greatest video game ever made that I made a music video about it.

Yes, I do ;]

WHOA! HOLD EVERYTHING!!!

I had no idea you're from NY! I'm from the island. do you live in the city?

Also from Long Island, but I dorm in NYC for college currently.

Will the rangers movie have a scene select button? my laptop is complete balls and cant handle long movies, it gets really hot and shuts itself off

I know it has nothing to do with this post but I just really need to know, Im really excited about it, I saw those small clips on your warpstar and got all giddy oh and that video with the rangers dancing to hounddog was halarious, if everyone saw that there wouldnt be anyone saying you cant animate :D

Probably not, but odds are it'll be split into pieces for NG and then put into one combined thing for YouTube or something.

nice

what booth do u have at anime fest? I'm going tomorrow.

Didn't have a booth.

Man how funny it is that he lives in NYC man I wish I can meet kirb

Good idea, plus with you posting it on youtube people will know your the real kirb insted of that stupid Kirbopher15x, I mean C'mon what the hell is wrong with that guy at least when other people put your movies on youtube they credit you but that jackass pretends to be you, thats just sad.

I by the way kirb do like meeting fans like if some random came up and said hey your kirbopher15 right dude your so cool do like that or you rather meet them some other way?

Almost a thousand dollars for the DVD collection of the ASK... yikes! Sounds like you had an interesting time. I guess that's a benefit of being in a city like New York - there's always creative talent around to learn from and admire.

Super MarioOOOOoooo RPG!
Haha Kewl!

Wait when did you change to just Kirbopher? I almost panicked cause there was no Kirbopher15. By the way, how's the movie going?

Part 1, Episode 1 is out.

WOW youve really outdone yourself, that was the best movie ever, totaly worth the wait. I like how you captured the feel of the actual movie. The animation was perfect and the voices were great, and great humour, I can tell you'll be getting next monts review crew pick. But why did you remove your 15?, I thought that was important to you?