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John Lamb is an American artist, animation film producer/director and entrepreneur. Lamb created among the first animated surf and skateboarding cartoons, and perhaps the first American (animated, rotoscoped music video ). In 1980, the Academy presented Lamb with an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement for co-invention of the Lyon Lamb Video Animation System (VAS). In the early 1970s, Lamb's animation was seen in two seminal surf movies. "The Forgotten Island of Santosha" by Larry and Roger Yates featured Lamb's first animated film "Secret Spot" ()(1974), while "(Five Summer Stories )" by McGilivray-Freeman Films (1975) featured Lamb's animated short "Rocket 88". "Secret Spot" introduced Lamb's trademark character "Willy Makitt." Notable for another first, "Secret Spot" features an "air" maneuver where the surfer flies out of the wave into the air and lands back on the wave to continue surfing - a trick now standard in the world surf community. "Rocket 88" also features Willie Makitt doing a "shuvit" maneuver, which would later become a standard trick among skateboarders. The "shuvit" maneuver shows WIllie Makitt kick-flipping the surfboard, causing it to spin - he then lands it to continue the ride. In 1975, Willy Makitt was licensed by Hang Ten and featured on their fiberglass skateboards, which can be seen in this NBC newscast on the "new" skateboarding phenomenon.〔(Vintage Skateboard News Clip- 1975 )〕 Most recently, Lamb and "Secret Spot" were honored by the (California Surf Museum in Oceanside, CA ) with a permanent installation. Hand painted by Lamb, with a bigger-than-life wave scene and classic hot rods, tikis, palm trees and jungle scene, the iconic Willy Makitt is featured at the peak of the giant wave. The "Secret Spot" installation plays host to art openings, premieres and surf extravaganzas of all types at the groundbreaking museum. The installation also features the work of Brett Hazzard, who created the "footprints in the sand" and breathtaking beach effect, that completes the installation's unique experience. See the mural's start and sky-bending finish on YouTube.〔(Secret Spot at the California Surf Museum )〕 ==History== With the fresh success of the (Lyon Lamb Video Animation System ) in 1976, Lamb set out for his most ambitious animation project: "(Tom Waits for No One )", featuring Tom Waits singing "The One That Got Away" from his LP ''Small Change''. Using the newly invented Lyon Lamb Video Rotoscope, Lamb animated live footage of Tom Waits, creating what appears to be the first American, rotoscoped, animated rock video. Released in 1979, and largely hidden from the public eye since, the video would eventually see a second life when it went viral on YouTube almost 30 years later. In 1980, Lamb was honored with an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement for inventing the (Lyon Lamb Video Animation System ) (VAS) - (shared with Bruce Lyon). The VAS is a single frame video device for pre-testing animation art before it's committed to final production.〔http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/1980〕 With the invention of the Lyon Lamb VAS, an animation revolution began. One example, a master animator uses the VAS to make animation history and demonstrate a first human "walk cycle" for his students.〔(Animation Project #4 The Walk Cycle )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Lamb (producer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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