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Helen Ogger
Helen Ogger (20 June 1909 – February 1983) was an American inker and cartoonist who worked for Walt Disney Studio's Ink and Paint Department throughout the 1930s. She is known for her work on ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', as she was the only one who could apply the dye that became Snow White's blush. Early life and education Helen Ogger was born on June 20, 1909, to Fred Ogger and Anna Strohauer, both children of German immigrants. She grew up in Caro, Michigan, and when she was fourteen, the family moved to Glendale, California. Ogger then attended Glendale Union High School and graduated in 1927, before studying at USC for two years. After that she attended Frank Wiggins Trade School (later Los Angeles Trade-Technical College), having majored in Advertising Illustration, and having studied alongside her friend, Juanita Fernandez. (Fernandez would go on to work as an inker like Ogger.) Ogger completed her education in June 1931, the same year she started working for Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inker
The inker (sometimes credited as the finisher or embellisher) is one of the two line artists in traditional comic book production. The penciller creates a drawing, the inker outlines, interprets, finalizes, retraces this drawing by using a pencil, pen or a brush. Inking was necessary in the traditional printing process as presses could not reproduce pencilled drawings. "Inking" of text is usually handled by another specialist, the letterer, the application of colors by the colorist. As the last hand in the production chain before the colorist, the inker has the final word on the look of the page, and can help control a story's mood, pace, and readability. Workflow While inking can involve tracing pencil lines in a literal sense, it also requires interpreting the pencils, giving proper weight to the lines, correcting mistakes, and making other creative choices. The look of a penciler's final art can vary enormously depending on the inker. A pencil drawing can have an infinite n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |