Animation &Animation Artifacts &Disney 07 May 2008 08:14 am
Sorcerer Bits
- Last Saturday, I was able to post some images of Mickey in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice taken from Robert Cowan‘s excellent collection.
This led me to search down some old xerox copies I have of animation keys from one of the great scenes from this sequence. It was animated by Disney legend, Les Clark.
These drawings are probably all over the net; I haven’t looked. Part of this sequence was printed (rather small) in Frank Thomas/Ollie Johnston‘s book, Illusions of Life. I do know that Hans Perk posted the drafts for this film on his site back in 2006. However, I thought it worth posting just in case.
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107I’ve also made a QT copy of the the extremes (assuming that the drawing number represented the frame number – as was usually done at Disney.) Here it is, below.
on 07 May 2008 at 9:08 am 1.David said …
Thanks for posting these . I haven’t seen these drawings posted as a whole sequence of keys on the ‘net before . This is a great piece of animation by Les Clark .
I also love the style of clean-up line quality they used during this time
period — every line is clear and in it’s place, ready for inking, but the lines are not too “fussy”. A lot of vitality in those drawings. I’m sure the originals had plenty of blue or red pencil underdrawing still visible under the final graphite lines.
on 07 May 2008 at 1:23 pm 2.Larry Levine said …
Great drawings! Mickey is alive, expressive & fluid. The secondary action with his sleeves is priceless.
on 07 May 2008 at 4:45 pm 3.Bob Cowan said …
It’s great to even have a photocopy of a sequence like this! Maybe one of these days I’ll learn how to do my own QT! Outstanding!
-Bob