Animation &Animation Artifacts &Disney &Layout & Design 01 Feb 2012 07:47 am
Roger – Scene 45 -part 2
- Here is the second part of this scene from 101 Dalmatians. Roger is at the piano; Pongo has moved the mantle clock ahead by a ½ hour. Roger turns, yawns and checks his watch against the clock.
Milt Kahl animated Roger. Bill Peet did the storyboard drawing to the right. (In fact, he did the entire storyboard by himself.) This is the first of four scenes, I’ll post here – Sequence 1 Scene 45. The animation is, for the most part, on twos. There are a couple of ones at the very end ot the scene as Roger shakes his wrist. (Much of the rest of that will come with the conclusion, next week.
We start today with the last drawing from the first post.
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An inbetween is missing from this part.
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The goes on ones for a few frames as Roger shakes his wrist.
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The following QT incorporates all the drawings from
this post and those in Part 1 as well.
All posts will be combined in the final piece.
All drawings were exposed on twos unless indicated otherwise.
The registration is a bit loose. Sorry but, these are copies ofcopies and there’s plenty of shrinkage.
Completion of the scene will come next week.
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For more on 101 Dalmatians check out the animator drafts on Hans Perk‘s great and resourceful site, A Film LA. Hans has also posted Bill Peet‘s story treatment for the film several years ago. See it here.
For a look at the art direction of the film including some beautiful reconstructions of the BGs as well as some of the BG layouts go to Hans Bacher‘s great site One1More2Time3.
Andreas Deja has one of the more extraordinary blogs to visit. He just posted some beautiful drawings by some of the key animators on 101 Dalmatians as they set about to find the characters. See them here as well as a comparison of Milt Kahl‘s characters against Bill Peet‘s version. here
For those who own Fraser MacLean‘s excellent book, Setting the Scene, you’ll know that on pages 182-188 there’s an extensive discussion of this opening sequence from the film with plenty of beautiful images of the set.
Ken Anderson’s sketch of the room.
on 01 Feb 2012 at 5:09 pm 1.The Gee said …
the negative space in the background. for some reason I didn’ t pay attention to it in the earlier post. So far the action seems to utilize that space well.
I hope to get “Setting the Scene†someday.
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this is such a weird aside. I’ll try to follow up on it later, directly.
While initially this may not seem pertinent or important, Don Cornelius died. He created and for a long time hosted “Soul Trainâ€.
In the “Irma le Douce†splog posting, I mentioned how animated titles grabbed me when I was young. The opening for “Soul Train†was animated. I’m sure it is online somewhere.
The reason I bring it up is because Floyd Norman did that, entirely or in part. Seeing that at an early age was oddly inspirational. Just thought I’d mention Floyd’s involvement. He could tell us all about everyone and a lot of things, ya know.
on 01 Feb 2012 at 6:44 pm 2.Fraser MacLean said …
Michael – many thanks in particular for including Ken Anderson’s beautiful pen and wash sketch of the room. During the research process for the book, another of the “Dalmatians” layout artists kindly showed me what must have been rare xerox copies, if memory serves, of an earlier version in which Roger’s bachelor rooms are imagined as part of a larger, grander London house. Perhaps I imagined it…?! One way or another it’s always fascinating to see how the approach develops during the design process. I also love how we see Roger’s belongings packed, in the same chaotic way, into the much smaller attic room of the Primrose Hill terraced house so that he can still have his “creative” space while the rest of the house remains neat and tidy.
on 01 Feb 2012 at 7:51 pm 3.Rusty Mills said …
Just a quick note to first say thanks for all the posts you make and secondly to let you know that there are two links that are incorrect. Drawing 155 and drawing 169 go to the wrong full size images.
Thanks again, these really help when teaching younger animators!
on 01 Feb 2012 at 9:26 pm 4.Michael said …
Thanks for the note, Rusty. I’ve corrected the two links.