Kress & McDuffie: Animation Authors Caucus Animation Award honorees

KressMcDuffie The Animation Authors Caucus honorees both died this season. AWC chair Craig Burns states: "Both were people I used to be glad to call friend and friend, and whose efforts, it might truthfully be mentioned, made a lot of us the higher on their own account. They left us far too soon and too youthful."Earl Kress who died in September at 60, labored more than thirty years to help bring WGA advantages to animation authors. But he was greater than an organizer Spike Brandt, a WB producer who labored with Kress, recalls him becoming an "animation historian," whose niche was visual gags.Brandt states Kress wasn't worried about being "stylish" if the found writing animation for Warner Bros. "He examined who the figures were, and did the thing that was acceptable.InchBurns calls honoree Dwayne McDuffie, who died just beneath this past year at 49, "a gifted author and creator of comics and animation who labored a difficulty on others, particularly for minority authors."AWC member Stan Berkowitz recalls when McDuffie found L.A. to function round the animated adaptation that belongs to them African-American comicbook, "Static Shock." "It was not extended before he was among the primary lights of superhero animation."WGA Honours 2012Truth elbows out gags Good timing for WGA prexyHonoreesKress & McDuffie Eric Roth Tate Taylor Patric Verrone Zwick & Herskovitz Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com