Computer Animation Arts

Peter Ellenshaw - Matte Painter and VFX Pioneer (Documentary) by VFX Geek Peter Ellensaw started work at Walt Disney Studios beginning with their first completely live action feature film, Treasure Island (1950). He went on to work on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and Mary Poppins (1964), for which he won an Academy Award. He retired after his work on The Black Hole (1979), but contributed matte paintings for Dick Tracy (1990). His son Harrison is also an Academy Award-winning effects designer. After Peter Ellenshaw retired from the film business, he dedicated his life to his passion for painting. Numerous works were created, of both Disney and non-Disney themed subjects, which have been highly collected. He was named a Disney Legend in 1993.

A belated "Trick or treat!" to all our loyal readers!  Olivia Richer Well, it's all treats and no tricks in this all-new edition of the Computer Animation Arts ' Post With The Most , with all the latest from our busy creative community.  We're just six weeks into the Autumn term, but we've already had project hand-ins and draft Thesis submissions, and slowly, but surely, the course staff are turning up the heat in preparation for some of the bigger submissions coming our students' way. First up - one of my favourite things: a selection of life-drawings from the last few classes.  There is always something hugely gratifying about the moment the students' drawings appear on their course blogs - usually very soon after the life-drawing classes have concluded.  In a discipline characterised by the postponement of gratification - by the slow labours of CGI - these quick, expressive explorations of shape, colour, style, form and gloriously h...