Animation &Animation Artifacts &Tissa David 19 Oct 2011 05:58 am
Titania and Bottom – recap
Having revisited a number of Hubley films recently, I’ve grown more attached to some of the Tissa David works, and having spent a few hours with Tissa recently, I thought I should look again at her work on The Midsummer Night’s Dream, a film which has rarely been seen but is worth looking at.
- I’ve posted a number of pieces about Tissa David‘s work on The Midsummer Night’s Dream. (see them here.) This was a film she directed and animated with three other people: Kalman Kozelka photographed, xeroxed the cels and coordinated it, Ida Kozelka-Mocsary color styled it and did most of the painting, and Richard Fehsl did the Bg designs and animated many of those Bgs.
The film aired on the BBC in 1983 and was released on VHS by Goodtimes Video
I’d previously posted a couple of the cels from a scene, and here I’m posting all the drawings. I do think the film looks better in pencil test, but then I’m partial to Tissa’s beautiful drawing style. Here, again, are those cels:
Titania catches Bottom in her arms.
Three cels from a sequence.
And Here are those drawings:
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Titania Dances with Bottom
I took a guess at the timing of this putting the
action on three’s and adding two short holds.
All drawings from this scene (both posts) are included in the QT.
Click left side of the black bar to play.
Right side to watch single frame.
on 19 Oct 2011 at 1:23 pm 1.Luke Menichelli said …
I bought this nondescript cassette years ago from a discard bin out of boredom. And I always wonder why color choices often reduce a figure to a silhouette, obscuring the line work.
Thumbnail 57 is pulling up drawing 55.
on 19 Oct 2011 at 1:40 pm 2.Michael said …
I’ve corrected #57. I must say, I can’t disagree with your comment about the color choices. The film is all in the animation and some of the imaginative camera work.
I’m still amazed that just four people did the whole film.
One on Animation.
One on BG
One on I&Pt
One on Cmra.
on 19 Oct 2011 at 2:47 pm 3.anik said …
Beautiful animation, every drawing and the whole thing in movement! It’s true that it looks way more charming without those colours.