Iwao Takamoto: My Life with a Thousand Characters

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Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2009 M01 1 - 243 páginas
Iwao Takamoto (1925?2007) spent a lifetime in the animation industry and was influential in the creation of some of the most beloved characters in the medium's history, including Scooby-Doo, Atom Ant, The Jetsons? Astro, The Flintstones? Great Gazoo, and The Wacky Races? Penelope Pittstop and Muttley, all of whom he designed. Iwao Takamoto: My Life with a Thousand Characters is the story of this legendary American artist, told in his own words. Takamoto records his experiences growing up in the heart of Los Angeles as a self-described ?street kid? and his wartime ordeal of being sent to a government internment camp for Japanese Americans. He recalls stories of how he and his teenaged friends still managed to function as normal teens despite the confinement of Manzanar. The book chronicles his career, first with the Walt Disney Studios, where he worked directly with the famous ?Nine Old Men, ? and later for Hanna-Barbera, where he was a key artistic force. Packed with memorable stories of working in the trenches of two of Hollywood's most notable animation studios and filled with photographs and artwork, much of which has never before been published, this book is essential for any fan of animation and twentieth-century popular culture
 

Contenido

I Am Legend?
3
Chapter 1 A Kid of the City
9
Chapter 2 A Japanese American in the Time of War
22
Chapter 3 Manzanar
29
Chapter 4 Nine Old Men and a Guy Named Walt
44
Chapter 5 Milt
57
Chapter 6 Tales from DWing and All That Jazz
66
Chapter 7 Changes
75
Chapter 10 Taking on Responsibility by Design or Otherwise
112
Chapter 11 Reinventing the TV Toon with Jonny Quest and ScoobyDoo
123
Chapter 12 International Expansion
134
Chapter 13 Falling into Charlottes Web
144
Chapter 14 HannaBarbera Branches Out
152
Chapter 15 The Busiest Place on Earth
159
Chapter 16 A Studio in Flux and a New Role as Ambassador
167
Chapter 17 An Era Ends A Legacy Lives On
185

Chapter 8 Bill and Joe
87
Chapter 9 Hardworking Artists and Lazy Lucy
103

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Iwao Takamoto (1925-2007) was a celebrated animation artist and character designer for Walt Disney Company and Hanna-Barbera Productions. Michael Mallory, a freelance writer and animation historian, is author of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons and X-Men: The Characters and Their Universe, among other books.

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