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Monday, July 14, 2008
Wood Chips 3
Wood's "Hindu", published in Panic 4 (August-September 1954), satirized the Western film Hondo (1953) with John Wayne and Geraldine Page. Hondo was based on the Louis L'Amour short story "The Gift of Cochise," published in Collier's (July 1952). On the right is a Wood sketch drawn years later. Based on the notes, Wood was evidently thinking of doing another one of his tales for an adult audience. Wayne's basic pose repeats in all four of these images. Note the subtle way in which Wood gave a slight torso tilt and lowered one shoulder. If you compare this with the poster and still, you can see the difference. Studying this, I realized that Wood had been attempting to illustrate the way Wayne walked. In addition to the simulation of 3D, Wood had challenged himself to draw single-frame animation!
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Labels: hindu, hondo, panic, shmondo, wood, wood chips
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Thursday, February 01, 2007
Wallace Wood: Against the Grain, part 30
In 1954, when Wood saw Them and lampooned it as “Them There Those” for EC’s Panic (#7), the furniture of their West 74th Street apartment began to vanish beneath layers and layers of celluloid sheets for EC’s 3-D books, as Wood described in 1972: “Besides drawing it, you had the technical problem of figuring how these things were going to overlap. The safest way to do that was to draw every figure complete, even the ones that were behind the other figures. Then you had to opaque them like cels, paint every figure white behind. So my whole apartment—the floors, the sofa, the chairs, everything — was covered. And this stuff didn’t dry! It was a job.”
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