Animation &Animation Artifacts &Disney &repeated posts 20 Jan 2011 09:23 am

Recap – Tytla’s Dwarf Fight

- I had planned a different post today, but at the last minute decided to post this one again. It’s from March 2009 and has material in it brilliant beyond words. Tytla’s brilliance, of course. Jim Tyer and Rod Scribner might have taken something from this.

Here is a scene from Snow White, animated by Bill Tytla, in which four of the dwarfs fight Grumpy. The drawing above is the first of these drawings and it shows what it looked like in color – lots of red pencil notes, yellow pencil for rough structural lines. The rest of the drawings I have are B&W copies.

By the way, if you like this material check out Hans Perk ‘s site today. It deals with forces vs. forms in animation. This is what Tytla was all about in animating.

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(Click any image to enlarge.)
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Check out Happy’s face on this inbetween.
Then check out Tytla’s drawing (the next one) of Happy.

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Tytla marked his own drawings with an “X” in the upper right corner.
The other drawings are the work of inbetweeners. The writing looks
to be all the work of Tytla.

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Some of these drawings are just hilarious in their own right.

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The P.T. on ones at 24FPS.
Click the black bar on the left to play.
Click on the right to single frame it.

3 Responses to “Recap – Tytla’s Dwarf Fight”

  1. on 20 Jan 2011 at 12:31 pm 1.Eric Noble said …

    Such a beautiful piece of animation! I am constantly in awe of Bill Tytla’s talent and power. Thank you for sharing this with us.

  2. on 20 Jan 2011 at 1:38 pm 2.John V. said …

    It looks like 29 of these drawings are by inbetweeners, and 7 by Tytla himself (unless the “X” is missing from some of them). Does anyone know who his inbetweeners were?

  3. on 20 Jan 2011 at 2:41 pm 3.Joel Brinkerhoff said …

    Ha, I remember watching this as a kid and saw as the struggle progresses the dwarfs become extremely simplified with no faces. It blew my mind. this is great choreography!

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