Earl Hurd (September 14, 1880 – September 28, 1940) was a pioneering American animator and film director. Events 81 - Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. Year 1880 ( MDCCCLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An animator is an Artist who creates multiple images called frames and Key frames that form an illusion of movement called Animation when rapidly displayed A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. He is noted for creating and producing the silent Bobby Bumps animated short subject series for early animation producer J.R. Bray's Bray Productions. Bobby Bumps was the titular character of a series of silent Animated Short subjects produced by Bray Productions from 1915 to 1923 The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames Short subject is a format description originally coined in the North American Film industry in the early period of cinema. John Randolph Bray ( 25 August 1879, Detroit - 10 October 1978, Bridgeport Connecticut) produced the first Animation This is an article about the US animation studio See Bray Studios (UK for the studio where many Hammer Horror films were created Hurd and Bray are jointly responsible for developing the processes involved in cel animation, and were granted patents for their processes in 1914. Traditional animation, also referred to as classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation, is the oldest and historically the most popular
Hurd, a native of Kansas, would later work for Paul Terry's Terrytoons studio before starting his own Earl Hurd Productions studio in 1923. Kansas ( is a Midwestern state in the central region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the American " Paul Terry may refer to Paul Terry (cartoonist (1887&ndash1971 American founder of Terrytoons Paul Terry (footballer Terrytoons was an Animation studio founded by Paul Terry. The studio located in New Rochelle New York, United In addiition, Hurd worked as a comic strip artist, illustrating the strips Trials of Elder Mouse (1911-1915), Brick Bodkin's Pa (1912) and Susie Sunshine (1927-1929). A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist He worked later at the Ub Iwerks studio and the Walt Disney studio as a storyboard artist. Ub Iwerks, ASC ( Ubbe Ert Iwwerks) ( 24 March 1901 &ndash 7 July 1971) was a two-time Academy Award winning Walt Disney Animation Studios (as Walt Disney Feature Animation is a key element of The Walt Disney Company, and the oldest existing Animation studio in the world See also Pre-production Storyboards are graphic organizers such as a series of Illustrations or Images displayed in sequence for the purpose of He died on September 28, 1940 in Burbank, California. Events 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County California, United States.
References
- "Earl Hurd". Lambeik. net. Retrieved September 6, 2007.
External links
- Earl Hurd at the Internet Movie Database