Animation &Disney &Frame Grabs 11 Feb 2008 09:08 am
Whoopee!
- WHoopee! Congratulations to the BAFTA Awardwinners, Ratatouille and director Brad Bird for Best Animated Feature. Congratulations also to Jo Allen & Luis Cook and Aardman for The Pearce Sisters. Both are well deserving winners. Unfortunately BBC America opted to cut out their awards from the program. We didn’t get to hear the speeches.
- Before there was video tape (which means before there were dvds), there was only 16mm film that you could project in your own home. I had (and still have) a nice collection of decaying movies and used to show these often. One of the regulars to show and watch and laugh at was the great Mickey short, The Whoopee Party. Everyone loved this short, no matter how many times we watched it. It’s a great film!
This encouraged me to watch it again on the B&W Mickey dvd I have. So I couldn’t help but jump for joy over the story sketches they include in the extras. Why not post them? So here they are – sketches from the limited storyboard they produced. I’ve also interspersed frame grabs from the film so you can compare images.
I could only get through half the work today, so I’ll post the rest of the film art tomorrow.
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on 12 Feb 2008 at 12:50 am 1.David said …
Love the vintage animation you’re posting Michael. Thanks very much!
on 12 Feb 2008 at 7:51 am 2.Stephen Macquignon said …
I love seeing the production changes. By showing the story board & the film grabs you get to see that they did not follow the story board exactly; images were changed to create better compositions, round table over square left handed violinist over right etc. Fun stuff