History Creator / GrimNatwick

One of the most influential animators in history, Grim Natwick, born Myron Noidveig on August 16, 1890, had a decades long career that spanned the majority of UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfAnimation and the near-entirety of both the UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation and UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation, having worked at many major cartoon studios across all three periods.

You can find the whole story of this underrated animation master in this [[UsefulNotes/AnimationResources Animation Resources]] [[http://animationresources.org/?p=3569 article.]]

Initially a professional illustrator (a compilation of his sheet music covers from the 1910s can be viewed [[https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-sheet-music-art-of-myron-grim-natwick-1914-1927/ here]]), Natwick entered the animation industry in 1919, contributing to the ''Judge Rummy'' shorts for J.R. Bray's studio. Due to his illustrator background, Natwick was frequently assigned to scenes featuring more intricately-designed characters, particularly realistically-drawn women. Following a series of stints across multiple short series (including the mid-1920s animated adaptation of ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat''), Natwick was hired by [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer Studios]] at the dawn of the sound era in 1930. Rapidly assuming the role of a pivotal animator on the ''WesternAnimation/{{Talkartoons}}'' series, Natwick would play a significant role in the initial design and characterization of WesternAnimation/BettyBoop, animating her earliest scenes in 1930's ''WesternAnimation/DizzyDishes''. Following this success, Natwick's position as a noteworthy veteran animator was effectively solidified: following his first tenure at Fleischer (with ''WesternAnimation/BimbosInitiation'' featuring his final animation for the studio), he both animated and played a supervisory role at the Creator/UbIwerks studio, animated a third of Snow White herself in Disney's feature length film, became a top animator at Creator/WalterLantz's studio and UPA, and, during the Dark Age of the 1970s, served as a mentor and animator for Creator/RichardWilliams (hence the animation he contributed to Williams' unfinished epic ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' in his early nineties). He would retire during the early 1980s,

One of the most influential animators in history, Grim Natwick, born Myron Noidveig on August 16, 1890, had a decades long career that spanned the majority of UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfAnimation and the near-entirety of both the UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation and UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation, having worked at most of the major cartoon studios of the time.

Initially a professional illustrator (a compilation of his sheet music covers from the 1910s can be viewed [[https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-sheet-music-art-of-myron-grim-natwick-1914-1927/ here]]), Natwick entered the animation industry in 1919, contributing to the ''Judge Rummy'' shorts for J.R. Bray's studio. Following a series of stints across multiple short series (including the mid-1920s animated adaptation of ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat''), Natwick was hired by [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer Studios]] at the dawn of the sound era in 1930. Rapidly assuming the role of a pivotal animator on the ''WesternAnimation/{{Talkartoons}}'' series, Natwick would play a significant role in the initial design and characterization of WesternAnimation/BettyBoop. Following this success, Natwick's position as a noteworthy veteran animator was effectively solidified: following his first tenure at Fleischer (with ''WesternAnimation/BimbosInitiation'' featuring his final animation for the studio), he both animated and played a supervisory role at the Creator/UbIwerks studio, animated a third of Snow White herself in Disney's feature length film, became a top animator at Creator/WalterLantz's studio and UPA, and, during the Dark Age of the 1970s, served as a mentor and animator for Creator/RichardWilliams (hence the animation he contributed to Williams' unfinished epic ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' in his early nineties).

* Dick Whittington's Cat: Final Iwerks short to which he contributed.

* Little Boy Blue

* Dizzy Dishes

One of the most influential animators in history, Grim Natwick, born Myron Noidveig on August 16, 1890, had a decades long career that spanned the majority of UsefolNotes/TheSilentAgeOfAnimation and the near-entirety of both the UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation and UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation, having worked at most of the major cartoon studios of the time.

One of the most influential animators in history, Grim Natwick, born Myron Noidveig on August 16, 1890, had a decades long career that spanned the entire history of both UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation and UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation, having worked at most of the major cartoon studios of the time.