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\n“Beep beep! I’m the slowest roadrunner you’ve ever seen!” he’d say in the Character Animation hallway at CalArts, ambling along his walker not all that long ago…<\/p>\n

I was fortunate enough to have Corny as my freshman mentor. When I showed him the animatic for VALUE BLiND and my sketchbook, he recommended that I animate small, and gave visual suggestions for the look of the film. By gosh was he right! This man spewed advice from a long life of experience.<\/p>\n

“Draw, dammit!” (And when you’re sick of drawing, draw some more!)<\/p>\n

I remember one of his most charming characteristics was a goofy mind. Here’s this old man with a wispy beard– giving sage advice on drawing cartoons?! Didn’t seem to make sense, but was it ever great!<\/p>\n

He remembered my portfolio and recognized the model out of the first life drawings I showed him. And two years later, on his visit to CalArts (many thanks to Bob Kurtz), he recognized me– and said “she’s a good animator!” I’d never felt such honor before….<\/p>\n

Knowing that night was going to be full of fun stories and experiences, I recorded the full hour and a half, and I wanted it out there for the rest of the animation community to enjoy. I now offer you a 42-megabyte .m4a of that night!<\/p>\n

>>Corny Cole, Feb 16th 2011 @ the Palace (CalArts)<\/a><<<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is one guy whose brain I wish could have been magically preserved, hooked up to a computer… Something like that.<\/p>\n

He also made that drawing for me at the top of this post!<\/p>\n

He also made Heaven and Hell<\/a>, Originally for the 1981 movie Heavy Metal. He told his employers yeah, yeah, I’m working on it– it’s almost done. The film deadline passed. Twenty years later, he finishes! What a rebel!<\/p>\n

And here’s a drawing of him. Gonna miss him– but does an animator, one who creates life, ever really die?<\/p>\n

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