Richard Williams in San Francisco—One Night Only!
Sunday, November 2, 7pm
 
Richard Williams has been in the animation business for over 50 years. He created the Oscar-winning A Christmas Carol, directed the animation in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (two more Oscars), created memorable opening titles for features (The Return of the Pink Panther, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, What’s New Pussycat, Casino Royale, The Charge of the Light Brigade), award winning TV commercials, and other projects including the feature Raggedy Ann and Andy.
 
As the head of an award-winning studio producing animated commercials for many years he constantly strove to improve the quality of his art. This resulted in his hiring retired Hollywood animators to teach a new generation of artists the craft at his studio. For years copies of lecture notes from these classes were passed around from animator to animator. Then in the 1990s he toured the world presenting The Richard Williams’ Masterclasses. That resulted in his best selling book The Animator’s Survival Kit (2001) that is a standard reference for any animator today. Now a 16-disc DVD boxed set of his classes taped as he presented his lectures to employees at Blue Sky Studios in NY is about to be released. It includes 412 new animated clips by Williams and other features. 
 
Richard Williams will be talking about the principles of animation and illustrating them with excerpts from his new DVD set The Animator’s Survival Kit Animated. His wife Imogen Sutton writes, "We have had terrific reactions to this program at Blue Sky Studios (all animators) and at Pordenone where there was a general film audience of historians, archivists, academics etc. Dick usually tries to demonstrate by acting things out where necessary—he doesn’t like to just stay seated. We expect the show to run about 2 hours including lots of Q and A." Everyone will get a complementary DVD about Williams’ new work. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime presentation.
 
Karl Cohen, author, SF State instructor and president of ASIFA-SF, will moderate the program. This program is a benefit for ASIFA-San Francisco, a member of the Association Internationale du Film d’Animation with almost 40 chapters around the world. We are a volunteer run group that presents monthly events (special screenings, lectures, networking parties, etc.) and publish a large informative monthly newsletter. For more information about us visit us at our main website.

Needless to say, this is a MUST-ATTEND EVENT for any student, pro or indie animator, not to mention informative and fun for anyone who’s a fan or aficionado of ‘toons. We residents of the Bay Area are very lucky indeed to have the opportunity to meet a top talent like Mr. Williams—so get your tickets now!

THIS EVENT IS A BENEFIT FOR ASIFA-SF, the Bay Area’s Animation Association
Balboa Theater, 3630 Balboa (at 37th Ave in SF), $9.00 (seniors/kids $6.50)
Visit Brown Paper to buy advance tickets

Visit Richard Williams’ web site: www.theanimatorssurvivalkit.com