There are so many seminal accomplishments to write about from Williams’s career, but for my money, the most important one in terms of industry impact was his work as animation director of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. We don’t do that anymore.’ And then you get stuck with cartoons.” “When you get out of it for six months and you go back in, you realize you’re a bum. “It’s the hardest thing you can do,” he told me. He attributed it to his continued study of life drawing. I asked him a few years ago how he retained his skill level into his ninth decade. It’s a journey that most don’t have the physical or mental wherewithal to pursue for as long as he did, and it’s both inspiring and intimidating to see someone who has accomplished so much before the age of 35, but whose work still doesn’t even approach what he would accomplish in the second half of his life. But as Williams often reflected about this era in his journey, he really felt that he knew nothing about animation he was just getting started.įor Williams, learning was not something that you did in your teens and twenties, and then started a career - it was a lifelong mission. For many, this would be a sign of having made it. By this point in his career, he’d won a BAFTA and he was running a successful commercial studio in London. The documentary posted below from 1967 shows Williams as a successful 34-year-old commmercial filmmaker. He was the encapsulation of the idea that life is a marathon, not a sprint. Here is the first animation that he ever made, age 12.
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