Santiago Scalabroni wrote:Thank you, Egg, for this space and thanks Robb_K for your comments on my work ( they mean a lot to me , especially now that for a number of misunderstandings I am not working for Egmonts as I would wish). I confess I miss intensively Helge Barner' s glorious era , when artists were offered all necessary support , respect and freedom to create. Mr. Barner as an Art Director was serious , demanding , responsible , cordial and sensitive. I guess he used to invest time and effort in discovering affinities between scriptwriters and cartoonists . That 's how your scripts came to my hands , dear Robb, ( like the scripts of Lars Jensen, Paul Halas , John Kane, Shaun Crail , Pat and Shelly Block, among approximately 70 more authors ). I still remember how much I enjoyed the first reading and sometimes I laughed to tears with the originality of their ideas and humour. I always felt grateful for Robb' s fluency in telling a story and driving me into his concepts without creating conflicts or holding my pencils . I definitely wish we had a second chance to work together.
Hi Santiago,
Thank you for your kind words. I'm sorry to hear that you are no longer working for Egmont (especially as I have started submitting stories to them again). Your work will be missed. it was an honour to have my stories done by you. I only wish that the process at Egmont would be more personal, and that we could have worked together in person, the way I did and still do with Jan Gulbransson. I think it is a lot of fun to work together and collaborate with other writers and artists on stories, the way I have with Gorm Transgaard, Frank Jonker, Freddy Milton and Daan Jippes. All the different creators bring different talents, ways of looking at things and senses of humour to a story. ALL the artists I've met were sympathetic people and very nice to be with.
I'm glad McDuck.NL Forum was thoughtful enough to place this English Forum along with our main Dutch one, so that International artists and fans can join in our discussions. Through it, I was able to find out about your website and see your fine artwork of varying styles. Few of the comic book fans realise that most of the comics artists (and even a lot of the scriptors) are FINE artists in their own right (away from comic book styles). We scriptors for Dutch Disney ALL have to be able to draw our scripts decently, unlike Egmont, where they can submit only written scripts. I was very impressed with your human figures and life drawing. Few fans realise that, in order to draw "cartoony" figures and make them look alive, and their movements look real, the artist has to know much about the anatomies of people and animals. When one submits a portfolio for an animation job, it must be full of humans and animals in motion. Cartoon drawings aren't even necessary. The director knows that if you gan draw living things, cartooning (simplifying) them will be easy.
Good luck with your other work.
And I hope to see your posts on this forum again.