Marc Davis
Marc Davis
Marc Fraser Daviswas a prominent American artist and animator for Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, the famed core animators of Disney animated films, and was revered for his knowledge and understanding of visual aesthetics...
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth30 March 1913
CityBakersfield, CA
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When I was a kid, my family moved around a lot, and I lived and grew up in a lot of wild places. I lived in boom towns and oil fields and the like.
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Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on.
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To be closer to racing. In Maryland, racing isn't so big. If you want to further your career, you have to be around it.
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Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.
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Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
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This had an awful lot to do with the magic that Walt believed in, ... See, this is magic for good ... this girl suddenly is transformed into the princess.
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I remember winning my first car race. It was just an amazing feeling and I knew I wanted to keep racing. I wanted to win. I just love the competition and the challenge.
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Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.
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Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.
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His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today.
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I love the adrenaline and the speed, and knowing that I'm in control of something that's going so fast. Just the thrill of going 130 miles an hour.
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I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on.
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If everything goes as we expect, Marcus should be able to play when practice begins in mid-October.
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I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!