Bill Wray is trying to make the transition fine art but is known as a cartoonist, a background painter/ Art director and sometimes animation director. This will be the place he post his ocasional animation and cartooning work and also be a place to bitch or wax sentimentally about cartoons in general. It’s been a love and hate relationship for many years and the long journey may not be quite over.
posted by william wray @ 11:45 AM
Bill Wray is trying to make the transition fine art but is known as a cartoonist, a background painter/ Art director and sometimes animation director. This will be the place he post his ocasional animation and cartooning work and also be a place to bitch or wax sentimentally about cartoons in general. It’s been a love and hate relationship for many years and the long journey may not be quite over.
46 Comments:
such awesome people
Wow. Room full of superstars! What I would have given to be a fly on the wall.
Hey! is that Anthony's dad?
Oh,and whos the guy to the right in the photo?
In case you're serious, the guy on the right is (the other background painter extraordinare) Scott Wills.
Yeah, thanks Drake.. Ive never seen Scott.. much respect though. Bill and Scott painted some of the most memorable closeups and BGs in history!
After I saw the title, John K was the last guy I expected to see in the picture.
holy shit AWESOME PAINTING thanks for posting this, awesome!!
please post more original paintings from r&s if you have time, please!
Hey William, Just lucked on your blog, and your work was what my childhood dream was. But I think I know where you're coming from now, everyone always asked me when I was going to do real art? I've finally learnt....paint from the heart.
cheers.
Love your work !!
Awesome bgs, Bill! I hope you'll keep posting these. That sponge technique in the trees is beautiful, and the linework is so solid. May I ask, what size do these generally get painted?
hi bill! you're crazy alright!
Great!!!!!!!
nice to meet you Bill!
My God! Thank you so much for posting these. This is exactly what cartoons need now! Beautifully painted backgrounds from the amazing Bill Wray! I love the colors on that corocodile painting and the Anthony's dad one is just too Goddamn cool!
That alligator is super gorgeous. I hope you post some more!
It would be great if Scott Wills put up some of his work online too.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
DAMN they are cool!
The colors, especially in the alligator, are amazingly vivid. Outstanding.
That Croc/Gator is blowing my mind!
I was going to say something nice and constructive and gushing. Things like " I really like the Zoo Back Ground"...But then I started saying "Zoo BG" to myself. and if you keep saying it... Zoo BG, ZooBG, Zoobg, zoobg zoobg zzzooobg... I kinda can't stop now.
sorry, I'll be more proper the next time I leave a comment.
pumml: you can see the acme pegholes at the bottom. that should be a good indication for you if you've ever seen animation paper.
you're the greatest, bill! just a real knockout. i'm inspired to pick up painting again this summer.
Thanks, Katzenjammer. I'm a graphic designer by trade and have never seen animation paper in person. I'm guessing it's the 12 field size though? Approximately 14 x 10.5"?
Hey I like that unused title card. Do you do color studies first before you do the final? Or do you just start rocking out?
cool in the army title card! i like that one & the one that was used a lot!
Mr. Wray, you are one of the greatest artists of the last year.
Im a argentine cartoonist, sorry, please, my Tarzan english.
I love all the close ups for Ren & Stimpy, and the Big Blown Bay comics, but here i see some new close ups amazing, better than everyting I see in the past.
I se your "serious" painting, are great, you have no limits. Like many cartoonist from Argentina, I admire very much.
Sorry, last years, last 20 years is what I try to say.
So inspiring man. Hey i hear you might be helping out over here with some stuff. Hopefully I'll bump into you some time. Keep kicking ass.
BILL WRAY IS GOD!!
Awesome work!!! Really cool
Nice work, Bill! Really fun stuff, brilliantly painted!
what's a title card?
Bill these are so awesome. Thanks for sharing them. I loved your work for years, I just never knew who did them. Thanks for revealing your true identity.
For your background work, what's the usual schedule you're under?
It seems like you have to retain a lot of resources in order to produce so much color for one 11-minute cartoon.
I just peed my pants a little, at the gorgeous rat bg and the news of the upcoming Sam Jack bgs! This is shaping up to be one hell of a post. Thanks, Bill!
Btw, I tried to contact Scott about designing a website, please let him know the offer still stands!
Ahhh, how many times have I awoke in the nuclear dawn with a wild eyed Opossum in a flowered feez staring down at me from a tree branch.
Beautiful stuff all.
what is it about black that cartoonists love???
thanks everyone! Your comments are uplifting. I'm sorry I have to do less personal answering of each comment, but I read them and am filed with joy and spurred on to post more art despite no time. I'm working hard on The Mighty Bee for Nick and my one man show in September. Everyone is trying so very hard on MB, it should be a great show.
These are all ridiculously amazing.
I'm in complete awe!
Uh. I thought I owned that ZOO ENTRANCE bg.
Don't I? Is that a photocopy, Bill? (Maybe I'm crazy, and I've got the photocopy....I dunno. This is all beautiful, either way...)
My mind is melted!
excelente arte conchetumare
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