Pablo Ferro
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pablo Ferro (born January 15, 1935) is a graphic designer and film titles designer.
Pablo Ferro is the least-known of the great title sequence designers. 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 self-taught himself in 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 "Napoleon Dynamite" and Iowa in 2004. He has designed titles for films ranging from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Beetlejuice (1988), L.A. Confidential (1997) and Good Will Hunting (1997). Ferro started work professionally as a comic book artist in 1953.
Ferro is best known as an early master of quick-cutting and for using multiple images within one frame, a technique fondly continued 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.
Recently he has received the Daimler Chrysler Design Award on October 28, 1999, and the Art Directors Hall of Fame Award in October 2000.
