I rarely strayed from it and the hardness of that graphite core. It has been my pencil of choice throughout my entire four-decade animation career. Whether at home or at work, I always had a stack of these bright yellow hexagonal pencils adorned with the metal ferrule holding a latex-free pink eraser. high school where I took the SATs, then into college and throughout my animation career at Walt Disney Feature Animation.įor more than a half century, I have had a Yellow No.2 pencil within arm’s reach, most of the time. But I am talking about a simple pencil that I started using in kindergarten, maybe even before that, and have used consistently throughout my formative grade school years, Jr.

Okay, sure you can say that you have worn blue-jeans since you were a tike, or you have had numerous pairs of suede desert boots. There are not many things that any of us can say we have used for most of our lives outside of the necessities. 2 pencils is my pencil of choice and I’ve been using it since at least kindergarten.

Paper and pencil animation