In Class 8, we had gone through what is the United Production of America (UPA) and I was pretty amazed by their unique style and approaches. UPA was founded in 1943 by former Disney animators Steven Bosustow, Zachary Schwartz, and David Hilberman, after participating the Disney animators’ Strike against poor pay and conditions in 1941. UPA began as Industrial Film and Poster Service, breaking through Disney style which everyone was imitating at that time. Take the animation ‘Rooty Toot Toot’ as example, fully shown UPA’s experiment on minimal line drawing, use of movement and colors. The characters are created by flat, angular shapes with a loose connection between the colors and the lines, we can see paints actually spilling out over the borders. This unique figures and unreal use of color and backgrounds this is really a stylish thing done in animation. It is also impressing to use such a lively animation to criticize the judicial system.
ANIM223 - HISTORY OF ANIMATION - FALL 2019 