Carl Macek: RIP
I just found out from Mark Vezina's blog that Carl Macek died. He was 58.
Robotech, Macek's hybrid combination of various Japanese animated series, was my introduction into the genre of mecha. My family moved to Misawa AFB, Japan in the mid-eighties. I remember waking early every Saturday morning to watch it on the Armed Forces TV station. I was enraptured.
I will forever thank Mr. Macek for opening my young, gaijin eyes to a wider, more armored world.
http://www.robotech.com/news/viewarticle.php?id=418
Best,
JBR
PS. A Youtube Marathon of Mr. Macek's work seems fitting for this weekend, in memorium...
Here's a link to subscribe to Robotech: The Macross Saga
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Give me a call when you can. You coming back to Vegas soon?
Best,
JBR
These were literally every scene with backgrounds, key cels, in-betweens, pencils, roughs, clean ups, timing sheets. And they were stored in banker boxes, row upon row. You went to a box, thumbed thru each cel with its corresponding pencil behind it.
Sometimes Macek would give you a xerox of the background if you were interested enough.
The guy was a decade ahead of his time as no-one but us geeks were interested in animation back in the 70s.
He did come out with The Animation of Heavy Metal selecting choice animation cels from the movie. He had several colored key animation cels in sequence that he placed on large original backgrounds. These were works of art.
The best thing was that he was in the shop, talking animation with you as you perused and panted and awed over the backgrounds and cels.
Farewell Carl,
John Paul
Thanks for giving us that gift from your memory. Appreciate it.
Best,
John Bear Ross