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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Racing has been in my family. I used to see the bikes down in the basement and I always wanted to try it.
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It wasn't that you had to do these things, you wanted to do them. You were so proud. Every write-up the studio got, everybody went out and got it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think live action was something Walt always wanted to do and it took a long time for people to come around to letting him do that.
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What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.
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What we do here is focus on socio-technical design, ... The fundamental problems can't be solved by technology alone.
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If everything goes as we expect, Marcus should be able to play when practice begins in mid-October.