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- Earl Hurd (September 14, 1880 – September 28, 1940) was a pioneering American animator and film director. He is noted for creating and producing the silent Bobby Bumps animated short subject series for early animation producer J.R. Bray 's Bray Productions.
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Earl Hurd (September 14, 1880 – September 28, 1940) was a pioneering American animator and film director. He is noted for creating and producing the silent Bobby Bumps animated short subject series for early animation producer J.R. Bray 's Bray Productions.
Earl Hurd was an American animator and a pioneer in the art form. He worked for various cartoon studios, namely those of J.R. Bray, Paul Terry, Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney. Historically, he is important as the patented inventor of cel animation.
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Fredrick Earl Hurd was a pioneering American animator and film director. He is noted for creating and producing the silent Bobby Bumps animated short subject series for early animation producer J.R. Bray's Bray Productions. Hurd and Bray are jointly responsible for developing the processes involved in cel animation, and were granted patents for their processes in 1914.
American Animator Andy Luckey is a maternal cousin, twice removed, of Hurd's.
Hurd, a native of Kansas, later worked for Paul Terry's Terrytoons studio before starting his own Earl Hurd Productions studio in 1923.
Hurd was also a comic strip artist, illustrating the strips Trials of Elder Mouse (1911–1915), Brick Bodkin's Pa (1912), and Susie Sunshine (1927–1929). He worked later at the Ub Iwerks studio and the Walt Disney studio as a storyboard artist. Animation historian Giannalberto Bendazzi has called Hurd "probably the best American animator of his time" after Bray and said of his films that they "display an uncommon visual inventiveness, gentle humor and attention to drawing and scenography".
•"Earl Hurd". Lambiek Comiclopedia. Retrieved September 6, 2007.
Dec 23, 2019 · In 1914, the producer J. R. Bray and the animator Earl Hurd began patenting the process known as cel animation, which was a crucial step in the industrialization of the art form.
Mar 20, 2023 · Earl Hurd was an American animator, cartoonist, and inventor. He was born on September 14, 1880, in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Massachusetts. He is best known for his invention of the peg system, which is the basic foundation for the cel animation process used in modern animation.
Bray clearly had a gifted chief assistant, Earl Hurd, who was instrumental in moving away from paper to the use of cels for animation, which became the industry standard. Hurd himself patented the process of combining translucent paper with transparent celluloid, which could then be placed on background drawings and photographed.
Earl Hurd (September 14, 1880 – September 28, 1940) was a pioneering American animator and film director. He is noted for creating and producing the silent Bobby Bumps animated short subject series for early animation producer J.R. Bray's Bray Productions.
