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Breakthrough

10/1/2012

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I always drew caricatures by sketching them in pencil first, working out the basic shapes in the face and then inking the lines I wanted to keep, and erasing the sketchy pencil lines.  I averaged about 10 or 12 caricatures per hour.  But this weekend I was hired to do caricatures for a company picnic.  Just before they were letting people in, I discovered I had forgotten my pencil.  All I had was sharpies.  
But I went for it and drew straight ahead in ink with no sketch.  The drawings came out better and in three hours, I had drawn over a hundred caricatures.  That averaged out to about 33 an hour.  It was like casting aside the training wheels and biking the Tour De France.
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    Gene Hamm

    Animator Gene Hamm worked on Ralph Bakshiʼs Lord Of The Rings, Hanna-Barberaʼs Smurfs and Superfriends, Art Clokeyʼs Gumby, Roger Cormanʼs Battle Beyond The Stars, MTVʼ Liquid Television, Segaʼs Dick Tracy game, and Living Booksʼ Arthurʼs Birthday Party, Tortoise And The Hare, Harry and The Haunted House, and Behrenstain Bears Get In A Fight. 

    His own projects include the animated feature The Dream Hat, Cook For Your Life, Cartooning Shortcuts, Formulas And Cheap Tricks, The Professional Cartoonist Kit and the book How To Get A Job In Animation And Keep It. 

    He taught animation at Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

    He currently teaches animation, game design, podcasting, and screen-writing at Alchemia in Novato, CA.
    He also animates and does illustrations for Wonderscape Entertainment.

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