Williams served as the director of animation for 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit,' a 1988 film that married live action cinema and cartoons from all eras. - TODAYShow
Animator Richard Williams attends "The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Celebrates the Animated Genius of Richard Williams" at AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater on October 4, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California.Williams' career straddled the"Golden Age of Animation," which petered out between the 1950s and 1960s, and the rise of computer-assisted animation in the 1990s and beyond.
His best-known work may be as director of animation for"Who Framed Roger Rabbit," a 1988 film that married live action cinema and cartoons from all eras, a process involved the laborious insertion of animated characters into each individual frame and complex lighting effects.
Roger Rabbit, the lead animated character in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," was voiced by Charles Fleischer.declared the movie"a breakthrough in craftsmanship," but Williams gave a more self-deprecating account, joking to an audience in 2013 that all it took was for the director, Robert Zemeckis, to leave enough room in each shot for the cartoon characters and for the animators to whack them into each frame very, very quickly.
as a 5-year-old. He won critical acclaim with his first film, a no-dialogue short called"The Little Island" in 1958 and he won his first Oscar for an animated version of"A Christmas Carol" in 1971. Two more Oscars would follow for"Who Framed Roger Rabbit." Williams was part of a team that took home the Oscar for visual effects for the film, and he also won a special achievement award for animation direction at the 1989 Academy Awards.
Sutton Williams said her father's best-selling book,"The Animator's Survival Kit," was a distillation of decades' worth of experience and is still"essentially the bible that every single animator has around the world."Williams is survived by his wife and longtime collaborator, Imogen Sutton, their two children, and four children from two previous marriages.
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