Richard Williams, 80, is best known for serving as animation director on Disney/Amblin‘s Who Framed Roger Rabbit and for his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler. He was also a film title sequence designer and animator; his most famous works in this field included the title sequences to What’s New, Pussycat? (1965), and title and linking sequences in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968). He also animated the eponymous cartoon feline for two of the later Pink Panther films.
Read more about Williams here and see four short YouTube videos of him speaking at The Motion Picture Academy’s Marc Davis Lecture on Animation in October.
Current Exhibition at the Motion Picture Academy:
Richard Williams: Master of Animation
October 4 through December 22, 2013
(The Gallery will be closed November 5, 6, 7, 13, and 20.)
The Academy Grand Lobby Gallery
Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Weekends, noon to 6 p.m.
Free admission.
