Animation &Animation Artifacts &Hubley &Tissa David 17 Dec 2008 09:10 am
Tissa Babies
- Yesterday I gave you a look at John Hubley LOs for some of the babies in the key scene, 112, from the Hubley feature, Everybody Rides the Carousel.
Tissa David did the lion’s share of this sequence which totaled about 10 mins of screen time. Barrie Nelson did some of the later scenes. (Tissa also did a second sequence occurring later in the film – ride #6. Barrie also completed that one.)
Tissa didn’t get any footage to study or even still photos (though she probably did her own research at the library.) She said she based her baby on her sister’s child.
These are her drawings from the same scene – 112.
(Click any image to enlarge.)
These frame grabs give an indication of how it was colored.
The style was to use a watercolor marker to ink the baby.
Then water was applied to the marker to loosen the color into the body.
This coloring style was used throughout the film.
The image of the baby above right was a big deal for John Hubley.
Tissa didn’t want to do a cut mouth because it read as too two-dimensional
for her. She fought John several tries, but ended up
giving in and holding that head for a couple of frames.
Lots of small cycles went on in this baby shot.
Tissa masterfully worked in and out of and back into these cycles
throughout the entire sequence. The baby was always in motion.
This last drawing is from Sc 115 where the mother
picks up the crying infant and nurses her.
I’ll offer more of these drawings next week.
on 17 Dec 2008 at 11:41 am 1.Pat Rock said …
Those drawing are beautiful. I looked at the clip over on Pyramid media, and really… just wonderful. Very moving actually.
on 20 Dec 2008 at 2:25 pm 2.Steisha Pintado said …
Thank you for posting these drawings. This is a film that I have been wanting to see for quite some time now. However, me being the poor college student that I am, I cannot afford to pay $200 for the DVD. So just seeing the drawings from the production on your blog makes me very happy.
on 26 Dec 2008 at 4:04 pm 3.Jenny said …
Beautiful drawings.
on 03 Apr 2010 at 11:53 am 4.lakhmam said …
is beautiful.