ToonIn to Ruben Procopio
ToonIn to the World of Animation
“At the Drawing Board Level”
Rubén Procopio has been in the animation industry for over 25 yrs., with scholarships to both Cal Arts and Art Center College of Design. He later trained under Eric Larson, one of Disneys legendary nine old men. A chip off the old block he also was trained by his dad Adolfo Procopio, a 35 yr. veteran sculptor at Walt Disney Imagineering. Rubén was instrumental in bringing back the maquette process to feature animated films in the early ’80’s. Having a wide variety of skills from 2d to the 3d world and as an Artistic Supervisor as well as head of departments he has now opened up his own studio appropriately called for his admiration of the masked heros of yesteryear, Masked Avenger Studios, where father and son have joined forces with a combination of over 50 yrs. of experience to make their talents available to the motion picture, animation, toy and collectables community.
Join us with this second generation Walt Disney Animation artist Ruben Procopio while he talks with Tee Bosustow from ToonIn to the World of Animation about his experiences and insights in this new collaborative podcast series “At the Drawing Board Level”.
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I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!
I’ve been meaning to thank you for your gracious inclusion of my interview with Tee Bosustow. This is a great new site and I’m really flattered to be part of its introduction.
Wow,…realy glad to hear this interview with Ruben. I had the great fortune and pleasure to have had Ruben as my supervisor at Walt Disney Feature animation. Besides being an incredible talent,… Ruben is also a very humble and classy guy. I learned alot form him.