Miss Audley

Before I start I would like to tell you that I am going to give a talk at the Pixel Animation Festival in Vienna this October. I'll be there for a week, the festival takes place from Oct. 7-9.It would be great to run into some of you guys over there, if you are nearby, see if you can make it.Here is the link to Pixel 2011:http://www.pixelvienna.com/6/Eleanor Audley  was a great character actress, her roles were mostly in TV.She could be...

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Strong Silhouette...or not?

I am sure most of you know about the value and importance of a strong silhouettewhen it comes to key poses.Some of the old Disney masters said that your silhouette should give the audience an idea about the character's overall mood, and that it also might reveal the business and the acting.The first two examples prove that point very clearly, the last two are somewhat of an exception in this regard.Milt Kahl animated these scenes, and as usual they...

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Follow the Trail

This is a scene with Jafar on his horse, which  I animated early on during production.I remember being a little apprehensive getting started, this was the first time I animated a horse in a Disney film. As far as Jafar, I had only done a handful of scenes with him prior to this one. So I was still trying to work out drawing issues.It is sort of an action scene, and you can see that my drawings look pretty rough, especially the blue under drawing....

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TS Sullivant 2

Here are a few more Sullivant masterpieces.As you know I just can't get enough of him, so I'll be posting more of his cartoons once in a while.The first one showing some kind of interaction between a pig and a rooster is pure joy to look at. I don't have the caption for it, the illustration comes from an auction catalogue. I was bidding on this piece, but it went for a ton of money and I was outbid.The contrast between these two is what makes this...

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Aristocats

Disney animator/director Art Stevens told me once :" You never asked for changes in a Milt Kahl scene, because it was always perfect."I myself do know about a few corrections and scene cuts that even Milt had to endure, although most likely that didn't happen very often.Look at the pencil animation of this sequence where Duchess meets O'Malley for the first time. There are a few fascinating aspects to it.Milt had set the desgin of the characters,...

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