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Eric Drooker – The Art of Animating HOWL

by Hugh D'Andrade on February 1, 2011

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The recent movie HOWL, about the poem by Allen Ginsberg and the ensuing controversy and legal battle, featured some incredible animated sequences that brought the poem to life. The animated sequences aren’t online yet, but here are a few frames:

Drooker Howl art 1
Drooker Howl art 2

The artist behind the animation is Berkeley artist and New York transplant Eric Drooker. You might have seen some of Drooker’s work on the cover of the New Yorker, where he regularly produces some of that magazine’s most stunning and iconic images:

Drooker New Yorker cover

“I worked as animation designer on Howl for about three years,” says Drooker. “I created hundreds of storyboards, character designs, and a ton of concept art—the best of which has recently been published as ‘Howl: A Graphic Novel‘”

Drooker was a natural choice for the filmmakers. Ginsberg at one time collected Drooker’s street art in New York, and the two were friends and collaborators.

Drooker & Ginsberg

On Wednesday, February 9, Drooker will give one of his famous slide lectures (free!) at CounterPulse in San Francisco. Here’s the blurb:

Visual artist Eric Drooker will project hundreds of images and explore his early years as a street artist in New York City. He’ll trace the evolution of his graphic novels into animation, as in the recent hit film HOWL, and discuss his experiences creating street posters, covers for The New Yorker—and his slow infiltration of the mainstream.

Eric Drooker—The Art of Animating HOWL!
February 9, 2011, 7:30pm
CounterPulse
1310 Mission @ 9th Street

See you there!

Photo of Drooker and Ginsberg: Arne Svenson (1995)


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