The Animation Pimp Part 2: Pierre Hébert and the Work of Animation in the Age of Digital Reproduction

The Pimp continues with his theories on projectionists and offers some solutions to their tyrannical control over presenting an artist’s work.

By Chris Robinson | Thursday, October 18, 2001 at 12:00 am

Posted In | Columns: The Animation Pimp

Illustration by Andreas Hykade. Courtesy of Chris Robinson.

Part 2:
Pierre
Hébert
and
the
Work
of
Anima
tion in
the
Age of
Digital
Repro
ductio
n

WHEN
I
FIRST
THOU
GHT
OF
THIS
MODE
ST
PROP
OSAL
TO
ELIMI
NATE
FILM
PROJE

CTIO
NISTS
A
FEW
YEAR
S
BACK
, IT
WAS
FOR
THE
MOST
PART,
A
JOKE.
I WAS
TAKI
NG A
MILD
POKE
AT
THOS
E
ANIM
ATOR
S
WHO-
HAVI
NG
FAILE
D TO
READ

WALT
ER
BENJ
AMIN
WHIL
E
STAN
DING
IN
LINE
TO
BUY
AN
ASIFA
MEM
BER
SHIP -
WERE
CAUG
HT UP
IN
THAT
STAL
E
BELIE
F OF
THE
ARTIS
T AS
GOD
AND
ART

AS
SOME
PRECI
OUS
THIN
G.
WELL
SORR
Y TO
DISAP
POINT
YOU
FOLK
S,
BUT
YOU
AIN'T
AS
PRECI
OUS
AS
YOU
THIN
K,
ESPE
CIALL
Y
WITH
OUT
THE
TECH
NOLO

GY
NEED
ED TO
MAKE
YOU
SACR
ED
CART
OONI
ES.
AND
IF
YOU
WERE
A
GODD
AMNE
D
GOD
YOU'
D
HAVE
NO
PROB
LEM
BEIN
G
EVER
WHER
E AT
ONCE.
AS

SUCH,
PROJE
CTIN
G
YOUR
OWN
GODD
AMNE
D
WOR
K
WOUL
DN’T
POSE
MUC
H OF
A
PROB
LEM.

THIS
BRIN
GS
ME
BACK
TO
PIERR
E
HÉBE
RT,
THE
MAN

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