Scribner & Tyer

[Frank]

How can you tell the difference between Rod Scribner's animation and Jim Tyer's animation styles? They both are very wacky!

[J Lee]

Scribner was more under control of his director and could remain on model if need be, as was the case when Clampett left and Robert McKimson became his director.

Tyer went his own way, taking advantage of more leinent "directors" Izzy Sparber and Dan Gordon at Famous Studios to develp his own style, since under them the head animator was the de facto director, while apparently chafing at the limitations imposed on his wild style by Seymour Kneitel, and then Bill Tytla. Terrytoons' diectors were more like Sparber and Gordon in that that allowed Tyer to be Tyer, but as has been said elsewhere (including Mark Myerson (http://www.harrymccracken.com/apasite/stuff/tyer.htm)), they didn't use Tyer's style within the cartoon to its best advantage in the wildest action scenes. At Paramount, Tyer always assigned himself the key action scenes in the cartoon, similar in the way that Clampett used Scribner in the best of his cartoons.

[J. J. Hunsecker]

Scribner was a better draftsman that Tyer was. Scribner also used his exaggerated style to show the inner emotions of the characters he was animating. In other words, his style usually served a purpose for acting even while it was incredibly funny. It was never wild for it's own sake.

Tyer, on the other hand, didn't have Scribner's sense of volume to his drawings. He also used the more exaggerated and wacky style of animation to amuse himself rather than show the inner turmoil of the characters. Although, had Tyer been better casted as an animator, the latter might have been the case more often.