Summary
United Productions of America (UPA) was a small American animation studio founded in 1943 by three former Disney employees who had previously taken part in the infamous Disney strike. UPA succeeded in challenging Disney’s supremacy in the entertainment market by creating cutting-edge animated cartoons. UPA films express a simplified audiovisual language that consists of stylized layout designs, asymmetrical compositions, colors applied flatly and in strong contrast with each other, limited animation, abstract sound and minimal scores. How did UPA artists develop these original visual and aural solutions? The innovative style was developed via the assimilation of aesthetic features already expressed by Modern painters, graphic designers, ...
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