ABSTRACT
My occasional reference to the “masters” may seem far afi eld, but actually it is not. We all revere the great masters of the past. They are an inspiration and a source of artistic information. They were not unlike ourselves in that they spent every day of their lives as we do — searching for knowledge and wisdom to express ourselves. The only difference is that their goal was easel painting or murals, and ours is animation. Look at some of the sketches of those artists (reproduced here). At that point in their work, they are on a level with us as we sketch in class or at work, attempting to capture a gesture or a series of gestures that will tell the story we are either depicting in a painting, or acting out in drawings for a fi lm.
