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Animation &Animation Artifacts &Disney 04 Aug 2010 06:21 am
P&W-Kimball Scene – 8
- Production #2024, MAKE MINE MUSIC, “Peter and the Wolf”. Sequence 7, Scene 96. Animator: Ward Kimball.
Completing the post of the little guy on the separate level, here are the final drawings of the scene. There are other levels of snow animation and footprint animation, but I won’t post those. This scene was large enough.
As usual, we start with the last drawing from last week’s post.
Enjoy.
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The following QT movie represents all the drawings of the bottom level
as well as the drawings of the Little Guy, on another level,
who comes in and out where he should.
I exposed all drawings on ones.
Right side to watch single frame.
To see the past five parts of the scene go to:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Part 7.
My thoughts on this scene – just my opinion
I’m pretty disappointed in what I’ve seen here. The work has the obvious flair and panache of a typical Ward Kimball scene. The movement is funny and creative. Kimball did his work. The assistants were out to lunch.
The drawing in the scene is not the top notch material I’d expect of a Disney team. Seeing it drawing by drawing I get to see what I don’t like from a lot of the work in this period. The drawing just changes and doesn’t live up to the originals. Just looking at the fingers you get to see them turn into, what we in NY call, “Banana fingers” – they flatten out. This is part and parcel of the work at Terrytoons or Paramount, but we’re talking Disney here. You wouldn’t catch that in Sleeping Beauty or Bambi or Dumbo or Snow White or 101 Dalmatians. But it’s there in these compilation features.
Now going through the many drawings I’ve posted by Bill Tytla, I notice a distinct tie to Terrytoons. In the dwarves and especially in Stromboli a soft roundness comes into his drawings (and the assistant keeps it) at times. It’s probably the influence of Connie Rasinski while Tytla was there. It isn’t a bad thing, it’s certainly part of the style Tytla brought to his work. He took something good from Terry (the bottom) and brought it to Disney (the top), and he made it work into something glorious. If anyone was an artist in animation, it was Bill Tytla. But that isn’t what I’m talking about with the work in this Kimball scene.
All right the schedule was probably ridiculously tight – it was – and the budget was probably underbudgeted – it was. But I remember Jack Schnerk (who assisted at Disney) telling me about the last six months of work on Bambi when work went into overdrive. Everyone was forced to work seven days a week and most slept on their desks to get it done. The work was so heavy he quit after the film was finished. But then that was pre-IATSE and the compilation features were not. That was also when Walt was intimately involved in the films and he was not so involved in the compilation films.
Something different: for some reason WordPress will not let me save the word “‘O’nion” (replace a “U” for the “O” and you’ll have the word I mean.) If I try to save a piece with that word in it, it erases the material. I’ve used IATSE in its place for this piece. This has gone on for the last year. Anyone with a suggestion?
Animation &Animation Artifacts &Disney 28 Jul 2010 05:56 am
P&W-Kimball Scene – 7
- Production #2024, MAKE MINE MUSIC, “Peter and the Wolf”. Sequence 7, Scene 96. Animator: Ward Kimball.
Continuing the post of the little guy on the separate level, here are the next 40 drawings. This scene should be done next week when I post the last of these drawings.
As usual, we start with the last drawing from last week’s post.
Enjoy.
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The following QT movie represents all the drawings of the bottom level
as well as the first 40 drawings of the Little Guy who comes in where he should.
I exposed all drawings on ones.
Right side to watch single frame.
To see the past five parts of the scene go to:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
Animation &Animation Artifacts &Disney 21 Jul 2010 07:21 am
P&W-Kimball Scene – 6
- I’ve posted the principal level of the three hunters from this scene out of Peter and the Wolf. It was animated by Ward Kimball.
At one point the little guy pops onto his own level, and as Mark Mayerson astutely noted in a recent comment on this blog, he’s the animation that makes the scene work. The curve against the straights. It’s all goofy animation, and works in a very funny way.
Here, I start posting the 117 drawings of the little guy (roughly 40 at a shot) and will combine him with the others in the PT below.
The scene is on loan from John Canemaker and my thanks couldn’t be greater.
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The following QT movie represents all the drawings of the bottom level
as well as the first 40 drawings of the Little Guy who comes in where he should.
I exposed all drawings on ones.
Right side to watch single frame.
To see the past five parts of the scene go to: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,
Part 4, Part 5
Animation &Animation Artifacts &Disney 07 Jul 2010 07:47 am
P&W-Kimball Scene – 4
- Here’s part four of Ward Kimball‘s scene from Peter and the Wolf . The scene was loaned to me by John Canaemaker, and there are a lot of drawings. One more installment to come on these two hunters running. Then an addition of the little guy in the middle.
As with all other posts, I start with the last drawing from the last sequence.
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Note: It pops from #175 to #180 as the little,
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The following QT movie represents all the drawings posted to date.
I exposed all drawings on ones.
Right side to watch single frame.
To see the past three parts of the scene go to: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
Animation &Animation Artifacts &Disney 30 Jun 2010 07:58 am
P&W-Kimball Scene – 3
- Back to the running hunters in the third installment of the Peter and the Wolf scene animated by Ward Kimball. This animation, like much of Kimball’s work is very free, loose and fun. It’s been a trip just scanning through each one of these drawings. Unfortunately, they’re the assistant’s work and not Kimball’s, so some of the drawing is a bit “off” and I doubt that’s Kimball’s fault. Though he obviously approved it.
Many thanks to John Canemaker for the loan of the scene so that I could share it with you.
As with all other such posts, I start with the last drawing from the last post.
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Note that this is last drawing to include all three hunters.
From this point on the little guy moves to his own level.
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The following QT movie represents all the drawings posted to date.
I exposed all drawings on ones.
Right side to watch single frame.
Animation &Animation Artifacts &Disney 23 Jun 2010 07:04 am
P&W-Kimball Scene – 2
- Here we have the second installment of the Peter and the Wolf scene animated by Ward Kimball. The animation is loose and wild. There are many more parts to this post before all these drawings will be put up, so keep tuned.
By the way, the animator drafts for this feature, Melody Time, are currently being posted by Hans Perk on his endlessly informative resource of a blog, A Film LA.
Many thanks to John Canemaker for the loan of the scene so that I could share it with you.
As with all other such posts, I start with the last drawing from the last post.
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The following QT movie represents all the drawings posted to date.
I exposed all drawings on ones.
Right side to watch single frame.
Animation Artifacts &Bill Peckmann &Disney &Illustration &Models &Rowland B. Wilson 14 Jun 2010 08:28 am
Rowland Wilson at Disney – 2
- Here are more of the stunning pre-production watercolors Rowland B. Wilson did for The Hunchback of Notre Dame while working at Disney. (Last week’s post can be found here.)
This group of images is labelled, “The Siege” and concerns itself with the climax of the film where the people storm Notre Dame Cathedral and Quasimodo pours oil on them. These pictures are so beautiful (and large) that I can’t help but split them up so you can see some of the closeup detail.
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Now this is a Hunchback I could love.
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These two character designs look like they were influenced
by Richard Williams’ “Cobbler & the Thief.” Since Rowland worked
with Dick in London, it’s possible.
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Errol Le Cain by way of Rowland B. Wilson. Beautiful.
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At first I wasn’t sure which end was up on this image.
It might be correctly viewed counter-clockwise.
However, the label in the lower left should be the lower left.
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Many thanks to Bill Peckmann for the generous loan of this material.
Next week Hercules.
Animation Artifacts &Disney &Illustration 13 Jun 2010 07:39 am
Marc Davis’ Pirates – 2
- This is the completion of the post I started yesterday. A large number of sketches by Marc Davis which he drew and painted for “The Pirates of the Caribbean” Disneyland exhibit were printed in a souvenir booklet which was originally distributed at the parks. Bill Peckman saved that original book and has shared these illustrations with me, and consequently with you. I’m a fan of Davis’ work and am pleased to present these. Thank you, Bill.
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Marc Davis at his drawing table.
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A lot of photos of the actual ride are part of the article,
but I’ve stuck predominantly with Marc Davis’ illustrations.
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Action Analysis &Animation Artifacts &Articles on Animation &Disney &Layout & Design 08 Jun 2010 08:40 am
recap – Phil Dike Lecture
Hans Perk is posting a series of lectures on Layout. In August 2006 I posted the notes for the Disney afterhours lectures. To coincide with Hans, I’m recapping those notes.
- As noted yesterday, I am missing the notes to Lecture #2 of this Layout Course. - Hans Perk on his site, A Film LA, has posted the Ken Andersen LayOut Training Course from the Disney studio Nov, 1936.
Here’s the a fourth lecture that Phil Dike gave on May, 1936; it was called a “General Discussion”. Unfortunately, two of its pages were copied off kilter, pgs. 8 & 9. The copies here come courtesy of Hans Perk.
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Animation Artifacts &Bill Peckmann &Disney &Illustration &Models &Rowland B. Wilson 07 Jun 2010 08:18 am
Rowland Wilson at Disney – 1
- Bill Peckmann has sent me an incredible cache of photostats. These are watercolor paintings Rowland B. Wilson did while working for Disney. There are two groups of paintings: one for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, one for Hercules.
These were all inspirational sketches, and they’re all extremely long. Consequently, I’m posting them in batches. The first comes from Hunchback, and I’ll post the full sized image, then break each down into a couple of parts so that you can appreciate the incredible detail Rowland did in these things.
I hope you enjoy them.
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More of the Hunchback paintings to come next week.
Many many thanks to Bill Peckmann for sharing these glorious images.
