Gerald Scarfe's Profile
Brief about Gerald Scarfe: By info that we know Gerald Scarfe was born at 1936-06-01. And also Gerald Scarfe is British Artist.
Some Gerald Scarfe's quotes. Goto "Gerald Scarfe's quotation" section for more.I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.
Tags: Brain, Him, PastEngland was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.
Tags: America, England, ExcitingSo war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
Tags: Business, Sad, WarWell I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
Tags: Bed, Child, ChildhoodWhere as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.
Tags: Animation, Between, MovementAll the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them.
Tags: Big, Children, TriedAnd having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.
Tags: Time, Understand, WarAnd then I think they asked me to work on Wish You Were Here, which was the next album coming up. And I didn't do anything for a long time. I had other projects, and I didn't get around to doing anything for a bit.
Tags: Time, Wish, WorkAnd um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time.
Tags: Everyone, Put, TimeAnd when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks.
Tags: Away, Thought, YoungI have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.
Tags: Sad, Situation, WarI just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.
Tags: Film, Hand, PutI mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to develop those characters, so nothing exists visually when I get the script.
Tags: Film, Mean, WorkingSo the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.
Tags: Soldiers, War, WholeSo, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war.
Tags: Fact, Film, WarYou know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on.
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