I did this wire sculpture a while ago, it is based on the design of Sleeping Beauty’s Squirrel. This time I tried to be very simple and economical with the line work. I pictured the moment in the movie when the squirrel expresses sadness but also sympathy for Aurora, who dreams of falling in love. The sculpt (or 3D drawing) is just over 5,5” tall.Disney characters lend themselves to wire sculpting, because their design is always linear. It's fun to leave out as much as possible, so your eye adds volume and detail. You want to challenge the...
sâmbătă, 31 mai 2014
miercuri, 28 mai 2014
Remember that commanding voice, that sent chills down your spine?Eleanor Audley’s vocal recordings gave Maleficent a scary, bigger than life and unworldly quality. Combined with Marc Davis’ masterfully restraint animation the character became a villain for the ages. With Disney’s life action film “Maleficent” coming to a theatre near you, this is as good a time as any to talk about this powerful mistress of all evil.Many years ago, when I had...
luni, 26 mai 2014
This is one of many gorgeous paintings Walt Peregoy produced to help set the style for the 1963 Disney film The Sword in the Stone. Walt was the color stylist on the previous movie 101 Dalmatians, where he had established a modernist approach toward scene settings. Here you can see how he he continued experimenting with shapes, textures and colors. For a vis dev piece this painting is unusually large, 25 x 11”. I am stunned to realize...
sâmbătă, 24 mai 2014
Here are rough animation drawings from a couple of Milt Kahl scenes from The Jungle Book.The first one precedes this shot from a recent post:http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2014/05/baloo-brags-about-fighting-monkeys.htmlBaloo pushes Bagheera away from him and starts talking about King Louie’s monkey’s: “They ambushed me!…”Milt always gets amazing mouth shapes in any of his dialogue scenes, whether it is a human character or an animal. He knows...
joi, 22 mai 2014
Years ago I became fascinated with painters and sculptures from the Baroque and Rococo period.In those times the human figure was depicted in dynamic poses, and in motion. Francois Boucher (1703 - 1770) was one of the artists whose work I started to take a closer look at.Here’s what Wikipedia says about him:Boucher was a French painter in the Rococo Style. He is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories,...
marți, 20 mai 2014
When you study Disney cels from the Xerox years, from 1960 until The Rescuers, it’s amazing to see how much of the animator’s rough drawing was left untouched and made it to the screen. Particularly scenes by Milt Kahl, but also some by Frank, Ollie, Eric Larson and Lounsbery maintained that wonderful unfinished, sketchy look. Some people in the audience might find these loose drawings less pleasant to look at than the previous inked cels, but I...
duminică, 18 mai 2014
This post focuses on the different stages that were involved in the design of deer characters for animation, particularly young adult Bambi. To get the artists ready for a film that featured characters with unprecedented realism in drawing and movement, special anatomy classes were held, so the animators would get to know the body of deer inside and out.In the photo above you can spot story artist Mel Shaw in the middle of the back row, and on the...
joi, 15 mai 2014
What a pleasant surprise! I was recently going through the pages of the magazine Entertainment Weekly when I came across this article on animated villains. The write up referres to the upcoming release of Disney’s live action film “Maleficent”. Cruella takes center stage, as she should.I have to tell you, it feels mighty good that a character I animated years ago still seems relevant to audiences and critics. And he is written about among such distinguished...
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