Stephen Worth of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog has uploaded more incredible images from mid-century illustrator
Boris Artzybasheff. This time, the subject is anthropomorphic machines. Simply stunning.
Recently, I was asked by a visitor to the Archive what relevance half century old cartoons and magazine illustrations have to the current animation scene. Well, this question is best answered with an example... Look at these amazing designs by Boris Artzybasheff originally published in the 1950s, and look at this clip from Fleischer's 1937 cartoon "Lost And Foundry" (Quicktime 7 / 10 megs). It doesn't take a great deal of imagination to be able to picture what a sequence in a current CGI film would look like if it had designs like Artzybasheff's and animation like the Fleischers'.
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