Bill Plympton

Although I didn't go to Plymton's night lecture, I did attend most of his talk earlier on that day. I though he was an entertaining speaker, and I really enjoyed his work, even though he "pimped" it quite a bit. He told the audience what film shows they should try to enter, with a matter-of-fact manner: "These are the good ones. Try for them."

His list was:
Oscars
Cannes
Sundance
Annecy
Clevoront Ferrarr
Ottowa
Aspen
Stuttgart


Then he showed us his music video for Parson Brown called “Mexican Standoff.” He went on to describe how NOT to draw cartoons and where his money comes from. This breakdown was long overdue; never in an artist’s lecture that I’ve attended has an artist openly told us how you get paid. It was thrilling.


Next he went over his influences, beginning with Disney, naturally, and ending with Roland Topor, a French animator.



At the finale of his talk, he sat down and drew dogs or Santas on his postcards for any student who wanted one. A few monetarily gifted young people purchased his dvds he had arranged in a neat row.

All in all, I thought he was a good artist for us students to listen to.