Yellow Submarine animator recalls experiences on film, Beatles toon show

Ron Campbell was 24 when he started working on the Beatles animated TV series, and later worked on the "Yellow Submarine."

He still creates Fab art in the op-art style popularized by the film and in the style of the earlier TV series.

Read an interview from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette here.

The film's graphic designer Heinz Edelman took inspiration from Milton Glaser, the New York artist who had created the famous psychedelic Bob Dylan poster in 1966.

"It wasn't that unique to me," Mr. Campbell says of the design. "It was certainly unique for a feature film. The look had been around since the mid '50s. Milton Glaser, who designed the 'I Love New York' logo, started doing that look in advertising in the mid- to late-'50s -- the psychedelic look that hippies adopted. And working for Milton Glaser was a young guy coming out of China, an American Peter Max. He adopted the look himself and went off and became a fabulous graphic designer and artist, creating in that look."