Pablo Ferro
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Pablo Ferro (born January 15, 1935) is a graphic designer and film titles designer.
He was born in Antilla, Oriente Province, Cuba. He was raised there on a remote farm until emigrating to New York with his family as a teen.
[edit] Education
It was in New York that Ferro taught himself animation from a book by Preston Blair. In the mid-50s he began freelancing in the New York animation industry for companies such as Academy Pictures and Elektra Studios. He found his first solid job working for a studio that produced black and white commercials. Whilst working there he befriended former Disney animator William Tytla, and received first hand training from him. He also worked with Stan Lee, the then-future editor of Marvel Comics, creating a series of sci-fi adventure comics. In 1961 he became one of the partners to form Ferro, Mogubgub and Schwartz with animation stylist Fred Mogubgub, and in 1964 he formed Pablo Ferro Films.
[edit] Career
He has been hailed as a genius by director Stanley Kubrick and has established himself in film for more than three decades as a director, editor, producer and title designer. He has been creating title sequences since the dawn of Saul Bass’s era and is still making title sequences today, his most recent being Iowa in 2005.
Ferro's single best known credit is Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, for which Ferro provided his distinctive hand-drawn titles and assembled an offbeat, almost avant-garde trailer. He has also designed titles for films including The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Stop Making Sense (1984), Beetlejuice (1988), L.A. Confidential (1997) and Good Will Hunting (1997). Ferro started work professionally as a comic book artist in 1953.
Ferro is known as an early master of quick-cutting and for using multiple images within one frame, a technique later taken up by Kyle Cooper. Ferro has worked with high-tech and optical techniques. His trademark hand-drawn lettering is yet another technique that quite obviously had an influence on Kyle Cooper's work.
He received the DaimlerChrysler Design Award in 1999, and the Art Directors Hall of Fame Award in October 2000. In 2005 a feature film about his life started production. The film, "Pablo" developed into a blend between documentary and animation and is scheduled for release in 2010.
More information can be found on www.pablothemovie.com
