![]() ![]() His work has resulted in considerable recognition and numerous accolades. Regarded in the industry as a master animator and storyboarder, to the public Campbell is best known for his animation work for The Beatles, first with The Cartoon Beatles television program in 1965 then the hugely successful, genre-defining 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine. Over the course of his 50 year career, Campbell worked on countless shows and features- Beetle Bailey, Scooby Doo, The Jetsons, Sesame Street, Rugrats, Rocket Power, and Ed, Edd, n Eddy-to name a few-and subsequently has had a direct or indirect hand in informing the childhood aesthetic of three generations of viewers. He moved to the States and the rest is history. Where others lost interest, Campbell continued drawing into adulthood, working through a degree at Melbourne's Swinburne institute, graduating just in time to meet the sudden demand for animation in Australia's emerging television industry.Īfter connecting with Australian animators, and eventually Yellow Submarine producer Al Brodax, Campbell's work was known enough that he landed positions with Hanna-Barbera and other noted American production companies. ![]() "And I sort of became obsessed with that notion for most of my childhood."Ĭampbell knew, even at that early age, that making drawings come to life was what he wanted to do-going so far as to make his own paper animation contraption akin to a rudimentary zoetrope. "Drawings? You mean if I do a whole bunch of drawings they can come alive?" he says. To a 7-year-old Campbell, this was something of an epiphany. "And my grandmother said, 'No, no, Ron, they are actually just drawings.'" "I thought there was a real cat and real mouse being projected somehow from the back of the screen," he recalls. After going to the Saturday afternoon movies as a kid and being awestruck by the children's animated reel between features, Campbell assumed the process was some kind of magic-until he asked his grandmother. With work by legendary animator and artist Ron Campbell, the "Cartoon Pop Art Show" will feature more than fifty original pieces of art inspired by the countless cartoons Campbell had a hand in animating-most notably The Beatles' classic film Yellow Submarine.īorn in 1937 in Seymour, Australia, Campbell's love of animation began at an early age. Kaleid Gallery's newest show will be a unique and inimitable trip down an animated memory lane. The yellow submarine itself stops in an ocean of pulsating watches, representing time, to light a cigar for a friendly sea monster.The man responsible for animating 'Yellow Submarine' and many more iconic toons comes to Kaleid Gallery. The bulbous Blue Meanies, which personify an evil mood as actual villains, pursue the innocent, well-coifed cartoon Beatles across an ever-shifting milieu of mysterious seas and holes that can be magically picked up and moved. …The movie’s mod-psychedelic look, which typifies the era’s spirited graphic art, emerged around the same time as the related psychedelic work of Terry Gilliam, Alan Aldridge and Victor Moscoso, but it has its own whimsical aesthetic. In his 2009 New York Times obituary, Steven Heller wrote, “Heinz Edelmann, the multifaceted graphic designer and illustrator who created the comically hallucinogenic landscape of Pepperland as art director for the 1968 animated Beatles film Yellow Submarine, died on Tuesday in Stuttgart, Germany. Born in Czechoslovakia and trained in Germany, Edelmann only worked on Yellow Submarine from 1967 to 1968 but it over-shadowed all his other projects, such as the illustrations of Andromedar SR1 (1970, Cotsen Eng 20Q 87723) and German edition of Kenneth Grahame children’s book The Wind in the Willows (1973). While George Dunning (1920-1979) was the director of Yellow Submarine, Heinz Edelmann (1934-2009) was the creative director and the one most often credited with the overall style of the film. They offer an interesting contrast in styles. The Graphic Arts Collection is fortunate to have a small collection of animation cells, including two from the 1968 film based on the music of The Beatles called Yellow Submarine and one from Walt Disney Studios of Donald Duck, among others. ![]() Cell from The Yellow Submarine, including Ringo, 1968. ![]()
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