Originally Posted By Doobie This topic is for discussion of the February 7th Rhett Wickham Column at: <a href="News-ID210060.asp" target="_blank">http://LaughingPlace.com/News-ID210060.asp</a>.
Originally Posted By Doobie This is the correct topic for posting on this article. I apologize for the earlier mistake. Doobie.
Originally Posted By basil fan What an excellent job you did of describing your feelings about Pleakley's animation. I can be incredibly difficult to explain why you appreciate certain nuances in a character, especially in writing, but you pulled it off beautifully. My hat's off to you. I will resist the urge to give you a list of character performances for future articles. I'm sure you have your own list of favorites all ready to go. Two new Disney Villains added! <a href="http://www15.brinkster.com/wtstsgalor/villains/villains.html" target="_blank">http://www15.brinkster.com/wts tsgalor/villains/villains.html</a>
Originally Posted By linemileage iagree you wrote a smart and well researched story. i hope you will do something with all of the profiles at the end of the series. how many are you planning? and I'm not at all shy about saying who i think you should write about. you mention kathy zielinski in your article and i sure hope you will keep that promise. there are a lot of women in animation who don't get nearly enough credit like kathy and ellen woodbury and nancy beiman. please don't let this be just another group of men. i like men (alot!) but the younger generation has an equally number of talented women that's all i'm saying. a wonderful story and i can't wait to read more. i've always read this web sight from time to time but only recently noticed how intelligent and insightful the members are and how talented the writers are. nice work.
Originally Posted By actingforanimators Thank you so much for your comments, Basil and Lin. I've heard from a few people off-line as well, and I'm so happy that people are taking the time to read it as it is rather long, though I hope not too long. Somebody else was encouraging me to do something with the collected finished pieces, which I suspect will number between 12 and 15 total by the time the year is out. And don't worry, some of the artists you mentioned will be included and it won't be a male-centric series, I promise. Thanks again for the feedback.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Excellent article AFA, reading you is like having a little lesson on animation each day. Thanks a lot.
Originally Posted By MouseBear Salutations Rhett, I very much enjoy Pleakley as a character and you did an excellent job describing his origins. I think your series will be an inspiration to anyone who desires to be an animator. As well as being interesting to those of us who have trouble with stick figures. ;o) MouseBear
Originally Posted By arstogas Thanks for the insightful piece, Rhett. It's great that someone is paying attention to some of animation's unsung heroes. And very appropriate.
Originally Posted By Jim Thanks for the great article. I loved Pleakley, but I didn't know Rueben Aquino animated him. He's one of those animators I generally know for some of his work and could identify him on the street, but I never really knew him, if that makes sense. Your analysis of Pleakley gave me a deeper understanding of character animation, and I really feel like I have a deeper respect for this animator I once hardly knew. I'm really looking forward to your other installments.
Originally Posted By Brer Rabbit Wow, a very impressive and detailed article. You are an extremely adept writer and this article was a perfect glimpse for me, quite the layman in terms of animation, into yet another aspect of the vast moviemaking proffession. Your article to me seems similar to one of Bob Gurr's columnn additions found here on Laughingplace, in that it WAS long and took quite a bit out of me to completely read through, but after finishing I felt as if I took a lot from it. Thanks for the start of a great series, -nico
