I began working at 138 Royal college street in a room on the first floor, that I shared with Alyson Hamilton and Margaret Grieve.
Andreas was in the room next door with Barbara Mc Cormack the colour stylist.
There was also a small wooden box on the floor that was hiding the part of the rostrum camera that was too high to fit into the ground floor, but that is another story...
Brent Odell who I was assisting, had already moved into the Forum, some 300 yards away and after about two weeks I too was moved into the larger studio.
He would speak in a thick northern accent and, having just arrived in the country, I nodded to his every instruction but did not actually understand a word he said, but that's another story...
Dick occupied a corner of the first floor, just outside the projection room, which was also home to the accounts team, but that is another story...
The Idea was that he would spent an equal amount of time at the Forum and at 138, there was however a problem.
In his room at 138, Dick had a Disney Cel punch, that was used on Roger Rabbit. For the Forum a brand new Chromacolour punch was purchased to serve the animators. Dick would bring over a Scene he had animated at Royal College street and proceed to punch his paper to do the breakdown drawings at the forum.
There was however a small difference in the distance of the pegholes from the edge of the paper.
As Dick liked rolling the scene off the pegs to check if it worked before linetesting it, he got increasingly annoyed that the drawings no longer lined up when registered by the paper edge rather than the pegholes.
One day...:God dammit Ian, this piece of shit, every time I roll this, it jumps all over the f%^&*£g place Jeezus Krrist, I'm working my fingers to the bone and this shit can't even line up...Damn, damn.... or something to that effect.
He then instructed Ian Cook to deposit the old punch at the bottom of the Thames.
I approached Ian, offering to do the disposing for him and, after consulting Dick it was agreed that for £1 sterling and the guarantee that the punch would disappear that night and never surface again, it would be mine.
That is how I bought my first animation punch for 1 quid...
A bargain, methinks...
2 comments:
lol... perfect. how I remember those outbursts. but at least they were full of passion about the work, not about how much money one could save y sending the work overseas.
Yes, that's a funny one. Didn't he share the top floor with Roy?
I also remember that sometimes we could hear him play on his trumpet up there, s.th. he wouldn't do in the Forum of course.
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