Animation Artifacts &Richard Williams 17 Jan 2011 09:20 am
Raggedy Drafts – 2 / seq. 3
- Continuing with the drafts I have from Raggedy Ann & Andy, I give you sequence 3.1, 3.2 & 3.3.
The animators employed are: Hal Ambro, Sencer Peel, Dick Williams, Charlie Downs, Tissa David, John Bruno, Jack Schnerk, Chrystal (Russell) Klabunde, Gerry Chiniquy, Doug Crane, and Willis Pyle.
Dick Williams did most of the cleanup of this sequence himself. He was particularly interested in the character of “Babette” which Hal Ambro animated. Dick reworked every one of those scenes while doing CU & Inbts. I’ve posted a model sheet of Babette from one of the scenes in this sequence.
For those of you who’d rather see artwork than charts, I give you another of Corny Cole’s oversized stunning bits of preliminary artwork for Tissa David‘s sequence, the deep dark woods.
“Babette”
“In the deep, dark woods.”
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on 17 Jan 2011 at 11:33 am 1.Daniel Caylor said …
Just watched the “deep, dark, woods” in The Gruffalo. Interesting.
Thanks Michael.
on 17 Jan 2011 at 6:12 pm 2.Richard O'Connor said …
How was the clean up done?
on 17 Jan 2011 at 7:25 pm 3.Michael said …
There were 150 cleanup and inbetweeners working in my departmen. That’s how the cleanup was done (except on the scenes Dick swallowed personally.)
on 17 Jan 2011 at 9:39 pm 4.richard o'connor said …
Wow! That’s a big production.
What I meant to ask is, what were the tools? It generally looks like pencils xeroxed onto cel, but other times the line in more sinew-y like ink.
on 17 Jan 2011 at 11:05 pm 5.Charles Brubaker said …
Was Gerry Chiniquy moonlighting from his job at DePatie-Freleng during this film’s production?
on 18 Jan 2011 at 12:28 am 6.Michael said …
The clean up was done in pencil – Black Wing was the preferred tool, and we went through a lot of them. The xerography machine was something they rigged in NY for the production. There was a full room for it, and originally they xeroxed in grey tones. When production got crazy they went to black. They even farmed some out to H&B in California.
on 18 Jan 2011 at 12:26 pm 7.John Celestri said …
Michael,
My memory of your instructions to me were to use a sketchy line because it was quicker to lay down than a smooth thick and thin line, and also because it would approximate Corney’s sketchy ball point pen line.
on 18 Jan 2011 at 4:03 pm 8.Eric Noble said …
Those thumbnail sketches from Corny Cole are brilliant!!! What a truly talented artist he was!!
on 18 Jan 2011 at 5:07 pm 9.Michael said …
The thumbnail by Corny is 18″ x 24″.
on 05 Aug 2015 at 11:19 pm 10.David J. Snyder said …
Michael, That xerography machine was brought up to Noel Paul Stookey’s (of Peter, Paul & Mary fame,) Neworld Animation Studio in Blue Hill, Maine, by Billy Kulhanick around 1980. It may have then gone to Penpoint Productions in Boston around 1985.